Software helps design cool lighting
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Mentor Graphics Mechanical Analysis Division product story
Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team
Mar 5, 2008
Dialight is using Pro/Engineer Wildfire to design LED lighting that minimises the heat produced.
Dialight has selected Flomerics' EFD.Pro engineering fluid dynamics software, embedded in Pro/Engineer Wildfire, for the design of advanced lighting systems based on light-emitting diode (LED) technology.
"Although power LEDs are becoming more efficient, a significant amount of input power translates into heat", said Gordon Routledge, VP of Illumination Products, Dialight.
"Cooling of the electronics and LED devices is critical to long-term reliability and so thermal analysis, including airflow analysis, is vital to help us meet our demanding development schedules".
"We solicited presentations from a number of analysis vendors".
"Some systems were either too simple or required a degree in math to produce any meaningful output".
Dialight produces low-brightness LEDs for status indication in electronic equipment high-brightness LEDs for traffic and rail signals, obstruction lighting, hazardous location lighting and developing applications in more general illumination markets.
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