16 Heat Transfer: Thermal Management of Electronics
The environment in which the product is supposed to operate.•
The safety and certication tests the product has to pass.•
Industry standards the product has to meet. •
For example, design requirements for a phone species its operating conditions
such as ambient temperature and altitude, maximum acceptable external surface
temperature, certication tests it has to pass, geometrical form factor, and maximum
acceptable dimensions. Design requirements are sometimes divided into those that
must be met and those that should be met.
Having identied a design concept and outlined the requirements for it, the next
phase in a thermal design process is a feasibility study. The necessa ...