Thermal Resistance and Impedance Calculator (TRIC)

This paper presents the Thermal Resistance and Impedance Calculator (TRIC) simulation tool, extending the TRAC tool, for the automatic extraction of thermal metrics of package families of electronic components in both stationary and transient conditions. The determination of the thermal metrics is speeded up by an accelerated solution algorithm, based on a novel projection-based approach, which, unlike previous techniques, allows dealing with parametric detailed thermal models of package families exhibiting generic non-Manhattan variations of geometries and meshes.