6SigmaET - Fast and accurate thermal analysis - Free fully supported trial
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6SigmaET has released the latest version of its powerful, intuitive and easy-to-use thermal simulation tool – 6SigmaET Release 9. Making expert thermal simulation accessible to electronics designers with no background in thermal design, R9 removes two historical barriers to entry: it allows intelligent models to be built incredibly quickly, and it generates thermal simulation results lighting fast without compromising on accuracy. So, if the idea of complex and unintuitive CFD has always put you off, but you know that thermal simulation will dramatically improve your time to market while driving down your recall rates, now's the time to try it again. Get 6SigmaET free for 30 days.
Thermal simulation allows engineers to assess the thermal performance of their designs and efficiently manage the heat generated by electronic components and assemblies. A better understanding of the temperature distribution in an electronic system can be used to fine-tune designs and enable the creation of products that are ever smaller and more reliable. The technology significantly cuts product development time by reducing design iterations and ensuring that a final product operates within its required thermal parameters, enhancing operating life and reliability.
Simulation also enables significant cost savings and return-on-investment for OEMs and developers. For example, it can reduce project delays and negate the need to redesign product enclosures and PCBs. Similarly, by discovering thermal problems before product release, simulation reduces the likelihood of product recalls. In summary, simulation can prove the differentiator between a successful and timely release to market, and a missed opportunity.
To be made ready for thermal simulation, component or system models are represented as a mesh of grid cells created from intelligent modelling objects, CAD models and PCB layout information. However, there are many ways to generate a suitable grid and its quality and resolution is crucial to achieving an accurate solution. Depending on available computational hardware resources, engineers will often need to alter the resolution of the grid manually to focus on the thermally significant parts of the design, which can be a time consuming and complex process.
6SigmaET Release 9, however, incorporates a new grid with a unique and revolutionary solver – combined, they deliver a thermal design solution that is completely different from competitive tools. ET provides a novel way to remove the burden of having to manually optimize the grid by navigating the trade-off between computing performance and grid detail to provide optimum accuracy and performance. The powerful parallel solver within Release 9 delivers ground breaking performance, handling complex geometries and providing accurate and sophisticated simulations, potentially in a matter of minutes.
In addition to the new CFD solver, an all-new user interface makes it easier to create a thermal model using intelligent objects such as power supplies or heat sinks, and PCB and CAD data. Import functions in Release 9 also include IDF, IDX, XFL and Gerber file formats from EDA tools. A new object panel in the user interface displays all available intelligent modelling objects and allows them to be dragged and dropped into the model. Powerful search functions make it easier to select the appropriate object to model a given component or subsystem.
The new interface adopts a modern, ribbon-based approach that replaces the traditional menus and toolbars of legacy software products. Context-sensitive ribbons highlight the key actions available for each task and enable users to quickly find the commands needed to create and analyse a model. Once each simulation has been completed, a model can be exported so that any proposed modifications can be shared easily with other engineers.
If you would like to discover how 6SigmaET can improve your engineering design process then why not try the software free for 30 days.
For more information about 6SigmaET Release 9, please visit: www.6sigmaet.info.
