Back to Boyd Blog In thermal management, we describe our air cooled devices as using either natural convection or forced convection. Fans and blowers are the mechanisms behind forced convection cooling solutions, but what about natural convection?...

Back to Boyd Blog Thermals affect us everyday, even without us knowing. Heat transfer is just a form of energy transfer. We're busy people and move energy around all the time. When you start thinking thermally, you begin to recognize heat flow in ...

Back to Boyd Blog Gathering Critical Data for use in Aavid Genie Finding how much heat your electronic device dissipates and how to calculate max case temperature can sometimes be a pain. The device you are using in your application will typicall...

Back to Boyd Blog Most of the time when we hear folding, and not folded fin heat sinks. We first think of folding typical daily things like laundry or paper. Most of us don't think or know about the awesome applications that folding has in technol...

Back to Boyd Blog Bonded Fin Heat Sink: What is it and how does it compare to other heat sinks? Aavid Genie has a bonded fin heat sink as one of the options available to you in the Technology Matrix. For those unfamiliar to them, a bonded fin hea...