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FloTHERM® IC
Who Can Use FloTHERM IC?
FloTHERM IC is designed to be used by
all those involved in the thermal design
and characterization of Semiconductor
packages.
How Does FloTHERM IC Save My
Company Money?
Mentor Graphics’ research reveals that
a typical Semiconductor thermal group
spends approximately 60% of its time on
standard package thermal characterization
and design and the rest on customer
specific simulations. FloTHERM IC
drastically reduces the time spent on
standard package thermal characterization
and design, and saves around 25% of the
time spent on customer-specific work. To
see the savings for your group use the
Return-on-Investment calculator below.
Beyond the financial benefits, FloTHERM
IC also enhances the quality, reliability and
availability of package thermal models by
providing a fast, simple, proven, automated
process, reducing the risk of modeling
errors.
FloTHERM IC
ROI Calculator
Typical
Group
Your
Group
Number of engineers in
group (a)
3
Personnel cost per
engineer, excluding
overheads (b)
$125,000
% time on std.
characterization/design (c)
60
% time on customer-specific
work [100-c] (d)
40
Saving on std.
characterization/design
[80%*a*b*c]
$180,000
Saving on customer-specific
work [25%*a*b*d]
$37,500
Total Savings per year from
FloTHERM IC
$217,500
What is FloTHERM IC?
FloTHERM IC is a new software
product from Mentor Graphics that
incorporates a high level of automation
for key tasks related to Semiconductor
thermal characterization and design. An
intuitive wizard-driven user interface,
interoperability with package-level EDA
tools, and enterprise-level data scalability
and portability are the other key features of
FloTHERM IC.
Built around FloTHERM® PACK, the wellestablished
package smartpart technology,
and the industry leader FloTHERM’s CFD
solver technology, FloTHERM IC greatly
boosts productivity of thermal analysis in
the Semiconductor industry.
FloTHERM IC vs. FloTHERM PACK
FloTHERM IC builds upon the proven
FloTHERM PACK technology of
SmartParts but extends it much further.
Here is a comparison of FloTHERM PACK
and FloTHERM IC features:
Features FloTHERM IC FloTHERM
PACK
Wizard-driven Interface Y Y
Model Preview Y Y
Detailed Models Y Y
Compact Models Y Y
JEDEC èJX/ØJX Metrics Y N
CFD Solver Y N
Batch Characterization Y N
In-Built Design
Parametrics
Y N
Interface with Cadence
APD
Y N
Searchable Results
Database
Y N
Libraries for Package
Elements
Y N
Comparing FloTHERM IC with FloTHERMPACK
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