Optimised for high-power LED lighting and other applications requiring enhanced heat-transfer efficiency, Bergquist’s new HPL dielectric for Thermal-Clad® substrates enables lower operating temperatures, higher LED driving currents, and reduced component count leading to simplified design and assembly.

The new dielectric has an extremely high thermal conductivity of 3.0W/m-K , resulting in a very low thermal resistance of only 0.13°Ccm2/W. The dielectric thickness is 38µm, and is available on all Bergquist Thermal Clad aluminium and copper Insulated Metal Substrates (IMS). Displaying vastly superior thermal performance compared to standard FR4 PCBs, Thermal Clad HPL is supplied as scored array circuits, scored singulated circuits, or punched singulated parts.

By efficiently removing heat generated from surface-mounted high-power LEDs, Thermal Clad HPL promotes reliability by minimising the operating temperature for a given LED driving current. Engineers thus gain extra freedom to optimise light output, component count and lumen maintenance in equipment such as energy-saving lamps, LED-based bulb replacements, signage, stage lighting and display backlights.

With a maximum operating temperature of 150°C and continuous operating voltage of 170V DC (120V AC), the new dielectric can be used in a wide variety of environments and applications.

About Bergquist

The Bergquist Company is a privately held, family owned business that began in the 1960s as an electronic components distributor in the upper Midwest of the USA. Today, Bergquist consists of two divisions: Thermal Products and User Interfaces.

Bergquist is the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of thermal management materials that provide product solutions to control and manage heat in electronic assemblies and printed circuit boards.

Bergquist headquarters and manufacturing facilities are located throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin, USA. Bergquist has additional facilities in The Netherlands, Germany, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Shanghai, China. A global sales and support network allows the company to meet the needs of its international customers on a worldwide basis.

The company has many years of experience in providing solutions for automotive manufacturers and suppliers, and is QS9000 certified. Bergquist is also working to achieve TS16949 certification in the near future.

For more company information, visit the Bergquist web site at: www.bergquistcompany.com.

SAN JOSE, California – May 12, 2010 – Real Intent  Inc., the innovator in automating the intelligence of formal techniques for design verification, announced today that it is shipping a new version of Ascent™ Lint Version 1.3. The new version adds VHDL checks to its existing Verilog checks.

Ascent Lint is the next generation lint tool in Real Intent’s early functional verification family of products. It performs syntax and semantic Hardware Description Language (HDL) lint checks for today’s complex SoC designs. It features an extremely fast engine and low noise report for debugging electronic designs.

What’s New

Ascent Lint 1.3 adds lint checking for VHDL in the following categories:

• Ambiguous modeling
• Differences between simulation and synthesis semantics
• Naming and RTL coding conventions
• VHDL subset restrictions to enforce modeling clarity and reduce unnecessary complexity
• Operations with hidden or expensive implementation costs
• Downstream tool flow issues
• Network and connectivity checks for clocks, resets, and tristate-driven signals
• Testability

“The customer response to the initial deployments of Ascent Lint has been universally very positive,” commented Pranav Ashar, Chief Technology Officer at Real Intent. “The feedback is that it is extremely easy to set up and more than an order of magnitude faster than competitive products. Ascent Lint 1.3 builds on this platform to deliver VHDL support. In addition, a key focus in this release has been to deliver an unprecedented level of usability. We are confident that with this combination of very high performance and usability, Ascent Lint 1.3 will provide compelling value in the front-end of any verification flow.”

Pricing and Availability

Ascent Lint 1.3 is available now. Current customers using Ascent Implied Intent Verification (IIV) can take advantage of an upgrade package at a reduced price. For pricing information, please email info@realintent.com.

About Real Intent‘s Automatic Verification Software

Real Intent’s automatic verification solutions include Ascent™, the complete solution for early functional verification; Meridian™, the most precise, comprehensive and innovative CDC solution in the market; and PureTime™, the best-in-class, comprehensive constraints validation solution with glitch-aware exception verification.

About Real Intent

Real Intent is the innovator in automating the intelligence of formal techniques for design verification. This technology is being used to solve critical problems encountered by design and verification teams worldwide. Real Intent’s family of products dramatically improves the functional verification efficiency of leading edge ASICs and FPGAs devices.

Real Intent is headquartered at 505 North Mathilda Avenue, Suite 210, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, phone: +1 (408) 830-0700 fax: +1 (408) 737-1962, Web: www.realintent.com, e-mail: info@realintent.com, Twitter: RealIntent.