Advanced Cooling Approaches for Rugged System Designs
Originally broadcast on August 22, 2023. Now available On Demand.
Sponsor: Elma Electronic and Behlman Electronics
Duration: 1 Hour
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Summary
As new chip technologies are incorporated into cards designed to align with the SOSA™ Technical Standard and OpenVPX, physical cooling limits become more challenging and impact system design. Across all circuit card implementations - multi-core single board computers, Ethernet switches, GPGPUs, high-performance FPGA cards - power dissipation can easily exceed 100 watts or greater, and conventional cooling schemes are hitting the performance wall.
Open standards, such as Sensor Open System Architecture™ (SOSA), point to alternative cooling standards. One approach is called AFT, or air flow-through cooling. AFT is already being successfully fielded in standard and non-standard applications.
VITA also defines AFT cooling standards, and they come in different flavors. Today, there are three AFT approaches defined as VITA 48.5, VITA 48.8, and VITA 48.9. The approach currently adopted by SOSA is VITA 48.8.
In this webinar, we will examine the thermal challenges posed by these high-performance cards and more importantly, show how they can be solved with cooling approaches like AFT. Each speaker brings a perspective from a different side of system design for a comprehensive look at system cooling.
Speakers
Ken Grob | Director, Embedded Technologies | Elma Electronic
Ken Grob is Director, Embedded Tehcnologies for Elma Electronic and is responsible for driving the company’s integrated platform solutions. He holds a BSEE from Drexel University in Philadelphia, landing first at IBM, and later became the co-owner of a well-respected embedded sub-systems integration company. He is a highly respected technical expert in the embedded computing open architectures and an active contributor to VITA standards and the SOSA™ Technical Standard.
David Gash | Manager of COTS Engineering | Behlman Electronics
As Manager of COTS Engineering for Behlman Electronics, David Gash has over 13 years of experience in power supply solutions for various industries including Embedded Systems and Motor Control. He is an active participant on open system standards including VITA and SOSA. David holds bachelor's and master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stony Brook University.
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