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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2016
Applicant:
Mentor Graphics Corporation, Wilsonville, OR (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Siemens Industry Software Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G06F 30/20 (2020.01); G06F 119/08 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/20 (2020.01); G06F 2119/08 (2020.01);
Abstract
Aspects of the disclosed technology relate to techniques of improving heat sink designs based on systematic mass removal. A thermal simulation is performed to determine thermal property values for a heat sink design. The thermal property value of a portion of the heat sink design relates to the portion's contribution to thermal performance of the heat sink design. One or more portions of the heat sink design are selected based on the thermal property values and removed to generate a new heat sink design. The performing operation and the removing operation are repeated until one of one or more predetermined conditions is met.