Embedded Systems Show - August 2002

Advanced cooling analysis from Rittal

Rittal's RiTherm system allows validation of cooling dynamics even before a particular system is built by using a combination of thermal load boards and a thermal system based on the CompactPCl (CPCI) architecture. This new product offers sophisticated evaluation and measurement of cooling in CPCI Systems that are based on 6U boards and can also evaluate power supply quality on CPCI backplanes.

The thermal load board is a concept that lets users validate the thermal characteristics of their system before all PCBs are designed and is a 6U CPCI form factor instrumentation board with a resistive heating array and sensors for temperature and airflow. The RiTherm System consists of a 10U CPCI Subrack equipped with two hot swappable 12V RiCool blowers, a CPCJ backplane.

Rittal
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