When it comes to designing electronics, thermal engineers are required to run the gauntlet faster than ever. In an incredibly competitive marketplace, and with consumers' expectations at an all-time high, designers, manufacturers, and engineers are under financial pressure to develop products that can do more with less. Tom Gregory, Product Manager, Future Facilities Ltd discusses.

Future Facilities has launched Release 15 of its thermal simulation software, 6SigmaET. The latest version incorporates major developments that bring a series of new features, including enhanced views, optimised liquid cooling and one of the fastest GPU radiation calculations on the market.

New research from Future Facilities has revealed the top thermal challenges and trends facing the automotive industry in 2020. Conducted as a roundtable discussion, the research brings together thermal engineering experts from some of the world’s leading automotive and electronics companies, including automotive supplier Brose and level 4 autonomous vehicle company, AutoX.

New research from Future Facilities, maker of the 6SigmaET thermal simulation software, has revealed the top challenges and trends in the LED industry for 2020.

Release 14 is the latest upgrade to Future Facilities 6SigmaET thermal simulation software. It includes significant modelling and optimisation enhancements, including the company’s ‘fastest ever’ CFD solver. The key focus of development for Release 14 was improvements in optimisation, allowing electronics engineers to balance thermal requirements with design constraints such as weight, size and cost.

Over the next five years a flurry of new innovations and technology trends are coming into the mainstream with major implications for the world of electronics engineering. From Artificial Intelligence (AI) to edge computing, 5G to the Internet of Things (IoT), new technologies are redefining the ways that we live, work and communicate. Tom Gregory, Product Manager, Future Facilities explains.

This month Future Facilities is celebrating the 10th anniversary of 6SigmaET, its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solution for the electronics market. First launched at the thermal engineering conference, Semi-Therm, in 2009, 6SigmaET has evolved substantially over the last ten years and now incorporates advanced unstructured gridding technology, cloud-based solving and VR integration for the Oculus Rift.