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Fig. 4: ICE circuit boards in a stacked configuration
An alternative style of mounting is to attach each circuit board side by side in the same plane. In this
case, no boards would be stacked on top of one another and a custom designed circuit board would
have to be used as backplane. This backplane circuit board would distribute power and
communications between the boards using the same 0.1 inch headers (see
page for part numbers) used on each ICE board.
Thermal Management
Please see
page for more
details and technical drawings.
Each PCB exposes up to 4 copper tabs to conduct heat out from power dissipating components to an
external heat sink. The copper tabs are not electrically isolated, so electrical isolation is required at
the interface between the heatsink and copper tab. Failure to isolate these tabs will result in
malfunction of the ICE module. For electrical isolation with good thermal conductivity,
can be
used. Sil-Pad requires a certain amount of pressure to ensure good thermal conductivity, so a clamp
mechanism should be applied to the copper tabs. The Sil-Pad is shown in pink in
and
.
Further information on thermal management of the ICE boards, including CAD drawings of the heat
sink clamp assembly, can be
Each copper heat sink tab must be electrically isolated from
the heatsink and one another.
