WILSONVILLE, Ore., March 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentor
Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that Dr.
Robin Bornoff, Dr. John Parry and John
Wilson, a team from Mentor Graphics Mechanical Analysis
Division, received the Harvey Rosten
Award for Excellence in thermal modeling and analysis of
electronics. The team received the award for their paper,
Subtractive Design: A Novel Approach to Heatsink
Improvement, at the 33rd annual IEEE Thermal
Measurement, Modeling and Management Symposium (SEMI-THERM) in
San Jose, California.
The Mentor Graphics team created a unique methodology to
sequentially remove underperforming portions of a heatsink to save
weight and cost without compromising overall thermal performance.
This method using Mentor Graphics® FloTHERM® technology provides a
variety of automated optimization approaches to gain deeper
insights into thermal characterizations to determine the best
thermal design solution.
"We are extremely proud of our team for their commitment and
dedication in discovering ways in which heatsinks may be
optimized," stated Roland Feldhinkel, general manager of Mentor
Graphics Mechanical Analysis Division. "To be recognized by the
selection committee comprised of highly esteemed thermal experts is
a tremendous honor, and particularly personal since this award is
named after the co-founder of Flomerics, which Mentor Graphics
acquired in 2008."
The Harvey Rosten Award For
Excellence has been established by the family and friends of
Harvey Rosten, who was responsible
for the development of PHOENICS, the world's first commercial
general purpose computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software while
working at CHAM, and co-founder of Flomerics (now a division of
Mentor Graphics Corporation). The Award commemorates Rosten's
achievements in the field of thermal analysis of electronics
equipment, and the thermal modeling of electronics parts and
packages. The award aims to encourage innovation and excellence in
these fields.
2017 Harvey Rosten Award
Recipients
Dr. Robin Bornoff is a
market development manager in Mentor Graphics Mechanical Analysis
Division. Robin was previously an application and support
engineer, and a product marketing manager, specializing in the
application of CFD to electronics cooling and the design of the
built environment. He attained a mechanical engineering degree from
Brunel University in 1992 followed by a PhD in 1995 for
computational fluid dynamics (CFD) research.
John Wilson is currently
the electronics product specialist for Mentor Graphics Mechanical
Analysis Division. John previously managed the engineering
design services team, where he gained extensive experience in IC
package-level test and analysis correlation, heatsink optimization
and compact model development. He joined Mentor Graphics in
1999 after receiving his BS and MS in mechanical engineering from
the University of Colorado at
Denver.
Dr. John Parry is the
electronics industry manager for Mentor Graphics Mechanical
Analysis Division, which he joined when it was founded as Flomerics
in 1989. He attained a chemical Engineering Degree from Leeds
University in 1982 and a PhD in 1988. His expertise includes
compact modeling of fans, IC and LED packages, heatsinks, DoE and
optimization methods, and thermal characterization, with over 75
published technical articles. John is a member of JC15 and past
chair of SEMI-THERM.
To learn more about Mentor Graphics FloTHERM technology and to
access articles and papers by these Harvey
Rosten Award winners, go to:
https://www.mentor.com/products/mechanical/flotherm/flotherm/
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation is a world leader in electronic
hardware and software design solutions, providing products,
consulting services and award-winning support for the world's most
successful electronic, semiconductor and systems companies.
Established in 1981, the company reported revenues in the last
fiscal year of approximately $1.28
billion. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W.
Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon
97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/.
(Mentor Graphics, Mentor and FloTHERM are registered trademarks
of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names
are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective
owners.)
For more information, please contact:
Larry Toda
Mentor Graphics
503.685.1664
larry_toda@mentor.com
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