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The board designer can choose between several types of thermal interfaces. Heat sink
adhesive materials should be selected based upon high conductivity, yet adequate
mechanical strength to meet equipment shock/vibration requirements. There are sev-
eral commercially-available thermal interfaces and adhesive materials provided by the
following vendors:
Dow-Corning Corporation
517-496-4000
Dow-Corning Electronic Materials
P.O. Box 0997
Midland, MI 48686-0997
Chomerics, Inc.
617-935-4850
77 Dragon Court
Woburn, MA 01888-4850
Thermagon, Inc.
216-741-7659
3256 West 25th Street
Cleveland, OH 44109-1668
Loctite Corporation
860-571-5100
1001 Trout Brook Crossing
Rocky Hill, CT 06067
AI Technology (e.g. EG7655)
609-882-2332
1425 Lower Ferry Road
Trent, NJ 08618
The following section provides a heat sink selection example using one of the commer-
cially available heat sinks.
7.8 Heat Sink Selection Example
For preliminary heat sink sizing, the die-junction temperature can be expressed as fol-
lows:
Tj = Ta + Tr + (θjc + θint + θsa) * Pd
Where:
Tj is the die-junction temperature
Ta is the inlet cabinet ambient temperature
Tr is the air temperature rise within the system cabinet
θ
jc is the junction-to-case thermal resistance
θ
int is the thermal resistance of the thermal interface material
θ
sa is the heat sink-to-ambient thermal resistance
Pd is the power dissipated by the device
Typical die-junction temperatures (Tj) should be maintained less than the value speci-
ed in
Table 3 . The temperature of the air cooling the component greatly depends
upon the ambient inlet air temperature and the air temperature rise within the com-
puter cabinet. An electronic cabinet inlet-air temperature (Ta) may range from 30 to 40
°C. The air temperature rise within a cabinet (T
r) may be in the range of 5 to 10 °C. The