P. Rodgers, V. Eveloy, J. Lohan, Carl-Magnus Fager, P. Tiilikka, J. Rantala
{"title":"Experimental validation of numerical heat transfer predictions for singleand multi-component printed circuit boards in natural convection environments","authors":"P. Rodgers, V. Eveloy, J. Lohan, Carl-Magnus Fager, P. Tiilikka, J. Rantala","doi":"10.1109/STHERM.1999.762429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STHERM.1999.762429","url":null,"abstract":"Increasing power densities and changing component design have increased the need for accurate prediction of temperature effects that may affect system performance or reliability. To highlight these aspects early in the product development cycle, designers resort to using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) based numerical predictive tools. However, users acknowledge that these predictions require experimental verification which is now readily available during the early design phase. Therefore, a need exists to establish well-defined benchmark test cases to help establish confidence in both modelling methodology and numerical tools. This paper presents such information for three package types (SO16, TSOP48, and PQFP208) which are evaluated on single and multi-component PCBs. Benchmark criteria are based on the prediction of steady state component junction temperature and associated component-PCB surface temperature gradients, which are both compared with experimental measurements. While the detailed numerical models typically predicted junction temperature to within 4/spl deg/C, discrepancies as great as 9/spl deg/C were also recorded. The sensitivity of prediction accuracy was assessed against discretization level and both the thermal conductivity and geometry of package materials. Hence it was considered important that all experimental and numerical modelling details be provided for reference.","PeriodicalId":253023,"journal":{"name":"Fifteenth Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (Cat. No.99CH36306)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128496025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Ortega, A. Aranyosi, R. Griffin, S. West, D. Edwards
{"title":"Compact thermal models of conduction cooled packages","authors":"A. Ortega, A. Aranyosi, R. Griffin, S. West, D. Edwards","doi":"10.1109/STHERM.1999.762452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STHERM.1999.762452","url":null,"abstract":"An extensive study was performed with the aim of developing compact thermal models of a variety of electronic packages used in conduction cooled scenarios. A nonredundant set of boundary conditions suitable for generation of compact thermal models for packages cooled by conduction to the board was developed by formal mathematical principles. A design of experiments method was used to reduce this set to four conditions allowing the creation of CTMs that were independent of board and underfill characteristics. The accuracy of CTM generation by applying external resistances representative of underfill and board resistances was critically examined. The technique was found to be convenient for optimizing the model parameters on both junction temperatures and heat flows through the prime lumped areas. Detailed thermal models of about thirty components, representing thirteen different package types, were created from physical component data extracted from X-ray, SEM and high-power microscopy images. Using optimization techniques allowing constrained nonlinear global optimization, compact models of different network topologies were generated for all the packages. To optimize the thermal networks, a genetic algorithm-based commercial code was employed in a standard spreadsheet environment. It was found that for most of the packages only network topologies that included a floating node provided satisfactory accuracy for both the junction temperatures and heat flows through the prime lumped areas.","PeriodicalId":253023,"journal":{"name":"Fifteenth Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (Cat. No.99CH36306)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126267487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thermal design for flip chip on board in natural convection","authors":"Chul-Bee Hwang","doi":"10.1109/STHERM.1999.762438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STHERM.1999.762438","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, thermal features of flip chip on FR4 boards with different control variables are discussed. The control variables include die size, board construction, bump pattern, underfill material and inclusion of a heat spreader. Thermal paths are analyzed to determine the heat dissipation mechanism. Due to the decreased package surface for direct flip chip on board, the junction to ambient thermal resistance is significantly dominated by the carrier board, differing with values for conventional large size packages. Therefore, apart from the thermal resistance value acquired from standard measurements, more package performance information is needed for the system designer. Accordingly, the maximum device junction temperature and power dissipation limit of the package are chosen to establish package thermal design guidelines. The three-resistor network model can determine the solution satisfying the junction and board temperature constraints. This study projects the thermal performance limits of flip chip. An experimentally validated computational fluid dynamics model is used for the flip chip on board thermal design. The die size, board construction and heat spreader inclusion are vital performance factors. As the junction-to-board resistance is small, the board temperature constraint decides the allowable flip chip power dissipation. With fixed die size in applications, an enhancement applying a heat spreader is essential when using a low conductivity carrier board. The methodology in this study can be used for other package design tasks, especially for future small packages.","PeriodicalId":253023,"journal":{"name":"Fifteenth Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (Cat. No.99CH36306)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131809796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thermal parameter estimation in the presence of uncertainty [packaging]","authors":"A. Emery","doi":"10.1109/STHERM.1999.762425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STHERM.1999.762425","url":null,"abstract":"Thermal properties are inferred from experiments by inverse techniques. In contrast to most mechanical and electrical experiments, thermal experiments usually involve boundary conditions and properties that have a degree of uncertainty. This uncertainty complicates the analysis and may lead to increased errors of estimation. This paper describes the application of an extended maximum likelihood principle to better quantify the amount of information yielded by the experiment and to reduce the effect of the uncertainty. The method is applied to an example of determining the contact resistance between a die and a substrate to demonstrate its use.","PeriodicalId":253023,"journal":{"name":"Fifteenth Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (Cat. No.99CH36306)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115191506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thermal management using \"dry\" phase change material","authors":"R. Wirtz, N. Zheng, D. Chandra","doi":"10.1109/STHERM.1999.762432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STHERM.1999.762432","url":null,"abstract":"The thermal response characteristic of a hybrid cooler that is charged with a \"dry\" solid-solid phase change compound is evaluated. A mathematical model that simulates the performance of a cooler/heat storage unit is formulated. A prototype heat sink that incorporates heat storage using a \"dry\" PCM is tested, and used to benchmark the simulation model. Different heating and cooling strategies are evaluated and a figure of merit characteristic of the cooler/PCM under development is introduced.","PeriodicalId":253023,"journal":{"name":"Fifteenth Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (Cat. No.99CH36306)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125269059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Boyer, D. Masson, M. Meunier, M. Simard-Normandin
{"title":"FMI applied to the study of the temperature distribution in flip chips","authors":"N. Boyer, D. Masson, M. Meunier, M. Simard-Normandin","doi":"10.1109/STHERM.1999.762444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STHERM.1999.762444","url":null,"abstract":"The use of fluorescent microthermal imaging (FMI) as a tool to study the temperature distribution in flip chip packages was investigated. Backgrinding of the die was required to minimize heat diffusion and maximize the spatial resolution. A test structure was created in order to evaluate FMI spatial resolution from the backside of flip chips as a function of the die thickness and of the power dissipation. A lateral resolution of 50 /spl mu/m is obtained after polishing the die to a thickness of 5 /spl mu/m. At this thickness, the centre of a hot spot can be located with a precision of /spl plusmn/5 /spl mu/m. For a 5 /spl mu/m thick die, the FMI temperature map revealed the heat-sinking effect of the flip chip's solder bumps.","PeriodicalId":253023,"journal":{"name":"Fifteenth Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (Cat. No.99CH36306)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131255659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sub-millisecond thermal impedance and steady state thermal resistance explored [power MOSFETs]","authors":"J.W. Worman","doi":"10.1109/STHERM.1999.762445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STHERM.1999.762445","url":null,"abstract":"Thermal characterization of semiconductor devices has been ongoing in laboratories for the last forty years and techniques are well known. However, given the dated equipment that many manufacturers use, it is debatable whether these techniques are accurate. This paper (1) explores thermal impedance and thermal resistance measurement methods for power MOSFETs; (2) investigates test system measurement errors and a new test circuit for evaluation of transient pulse widths of 1 ms and narrower; (3) shows that not all characterization heat sinks are created equal.","PeriodicalId":253023,"journal":{"name":"Fifteenth Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (Cat. No.99CH36306)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115608321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A review of IBM sponsored research and development projects for computer cooling","authors":"R. C. Chu","doi":"10.1109/STHERM.1999.762443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STHERM.1999.762443","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a review of twenty-five years of IBM sponsored research at universities intended to advance basic heat transfer technology for application in cooling computers. The research discussed covers a broad range of heat transfer topics, including natural convection and forced convection air cooling. Liquid forced convection, pool boiling, falling films, flow boiling, and liquid jet impingement. Examples of actual IBM cooling applications related to some of the research are given. In addition, some of the development activities conducted within IBM to advance computer cooling technology are highlighted. Specific topics covered are direct liquid cooling, thermal conduction module (TCM) cooling, low temperature cooling, and special cooling technology.","PeriodicalId":253023,"journal":{"name":"Fifteenth Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (Cat. No.99CH36306)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115704122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thermal conductivity homogeneity and topography characterization","authors":"N. Mathis, M. deSorgo","doi":"10.1109/STHERM.1999.762436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STHERM.1999.762436","url":null,"abstract":"Thermal conductivity is a key parameter for evaluating materials involved in thermal management. Thermal conductivity is a consideration at all levels when thermal engineers design for optimum heat dissipation, bonding and homogeneity. Materials have emerged that are filled with high thermal conductivity materials such as boron nitride and graphite. The homogeneity of such materials has been measured through nondestructive localized thermal conductivity testing. The method involves an interfacial transient technique used to evaluate a material in a grid-wise fashion. The minimum sample area of each test location was 5 mm/spl times/50 mm, and the total time that was required for each test was under three minutes. A homogeneity factor (HF) is introduced to relate material results. One of the two formulations tested was determined to be slightly heterogeneous within statistical limits of the test procedure.","PeriodicalId":253023,"journal":{"name":"Fifteenth Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (Cat. No.99CH36306)","volume":"1107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128948709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New way for thermal transient testing [IC packaging]","authors":"V. Székely, M. Rencz, A. Poppe, B. Courtois","doi":"10.1109/STHERM.1999.762446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STHERM.1999.762446","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a new concept of thermal transient measurement of IC packages without a tester. The thermal transient test kit described here consists of a test chip, dedicated software running on a PC and a special cable connecting the PC to the IC package which encapsulates the test chip. The functionality of the thermal transient test equipment is realized by the test chip itself and the measurement software. The software performs both the control of the measurement and the results evaluation. The final output of the evaluation software is a compact model network and the structure function, describing the properties of the heat conduction path realised by the IC package under test. The use of the test kit and the capabilities of its evaluation software are demonstrated by a few examples.","PeriodicalId":253023,"journal":{"name":"Fifteenth Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (Cat. No.99CH36306)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134545139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}