Date: 27/03/2011

JEDEC's new thermal testing standard takes lead from Mentor's T3Ster tech

Mentor Graphics Corporation has announced that JEDEC, the organization dedicated to open standards in the microelectronics industry, has approved a thermal transient testing-based measurement methodology inspired by an original idea published jointly by the Mentor Graphics MicReD group and the Automotive Power Application group of Infineon in 2005.

The new JEDEC standard has been very important for end users in many industries, such as automotive electronics, where power semiconductor devices are extensively used. As of today, the Mentor Graphics T3Ster thermal transient tester from the MicReD group and its related software is the only commercially available product which fully implements the new JESD51-14 standard and provides the needed level of measurement accuracy.