Fluent's New Iceboard 1.0 Enables Quick Thermal Verification for Printed Circuit Board Designers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LEBANON, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2004 Fluent Inc. announces the release of Iceboard 1.0, its new board-level thermal validation tool for printed circuit board designers. Although Iceboard is 100% compatible with Fluent's comprehensive thermal modeling software, Icepak(R), it is a stand-alone tool, intended only for board designers. "Iceboard's sole purpose is to help board designers to quickly verify their designs for thermal compliance. Board designers will appreciate the ease with which they can import their neutral ECAD ECAD Electronic Computer-Aided Design ECAD European Cities Against Drugs ECAD European Center for Aviation Development ECAD external carotid artery dysplasia files from software like Cadence Allegro or Mentor BoardStation and filter the data," says Iceboard product manager Rajesh Nair. "And when they have their results, they can easily export HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. reports and Icepak-compatible files for further processing in a seamless, integrated fashion," he concludes. Streamlined Problem Setup Iceboard employs computational fluid dynamics Computational fluid dynamics The numerical approximation to the solution of mathematical models of fluid flow and heat transfer. Computational fluid dynamics is one of the tools (in addition to experimental and theoretical methods) available to solve (CFD CFD - Computational Fluid Dynamics ) technology to provide a comprehensive prediction of flow and heat transfer. The software utilizes a sequential series of file import, setup, and reporting wizards to walk the user through the process of thermal verification. The user environment closely mimics the ECAD experience, with a tree-based model manager, 3D mouse-based view manipulation, and dynamic rotation The continual changing of some element. Often refers to the delivery of a different banner ad each time a new page is displayed for the user. See banner ad. , translation and zoom. Pre-created Icepak library objects can be applied to the thermal model selectively when a high-level of detail is needed for a high-fidelity result. Although the preprogrammed selection options for component and board materials and mesh sizes almost never need to be changed, the user has wide-ranging ability to fine-tune every option. Results are presented in an automatically-assembled HTML report. Visualization and plotting options are designed to present the information most useful to thermal verification at the click of a button. Rapid Turnaround Iceboard has a full-featured computational fluid dynamics engine running under the hood under the hood - [hot-rodder talk] 1. The underlying implementation of a product (hardware, software, or idea). Implies that the implementation is not intuitively obvious from the appearance, but the speaker is about to enable the listener to grok it. , the same one found in Fluent's flagship general-purpose flow analysis tool, FLUENT(TM), and its electronics cooling-specific derivative, Icepak. Users see the benefit of this in the time-to-solution and reliability of the results. A 50-component board can be verified for thermal compliance in 15 minutes or less. Pricing and Availability Iceboard 1.0 is now available worldwide through Fluent's network of offices and distributors for an annual cost of $12,000 per seat. About Fluent Fluent is the world's largest provider of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software and consulting services. Fluent's software is used for simulation, visualization, and analysis of fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, and chemical reactions This is the 18th episode of television drama Men in Trees. It originally aired on June 25, 2007 on the TV2 network in New Zealand as a continuation of season 1. Recap Marin and Cash have a stew cook off, she admits his is better than hers. . It is a vital part of the computer-aided engineering See CAE. Computer-aided engineering Any use of computer software to solve engineering problems. With the improvement of graphics displays, engineering workstations, and graphics standards, computer-aided engineering (CAE) has come to mean the computer (CAE (1) (Computer-Aided Engineering) Software that analyzes designs which have been created in the computer or that have been created elsewhere and entered into the computer. ) process for companies around the world and is deployed in nearly every manufacturing industry. Using Fluent's software, product development, design and research engineers build virtual prototypes and simulate the performance of proposed and existing designs, allowing them to improve design quality while reducing cost and speeding time to market. Fluent's corporate headquarters is located in Lebanon, New Hampshire
Lebanon (pronounced by natives as IPA: /ˈlεbənɨn/ or , USA, with offices in Belgium, England, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, and Sweden. Its CFD software is also available around the world through joint ventures, partnerships, and distributors in Korea, Australia, Brazil, China, Taiwan, the Czech Republic, Middle East, and most European countries. Icepak and FLUENT are registered trademarks of Fluent Incorporated. |
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