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Junction temperature options #239

Closed manu-aesim closed 11 months ago

manu-aesim commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. In the current version of SIMBA, users cannot specify the junction temperature of a semiconductor for loss calculations or set an initial temperature.

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Version 23.11 of SIMBA introduced an "Initial Temperature" feature, allowing users to define the starting temperature for the Cauer network thermal capacitances. However, this feature becomes irrelevant if the thermal data utilizes a Foster network or doesn't have thermal impedance data.

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In order to "fix" the junction temperature of a semiconductor junction, the best approach is to remove the thermal impedance from the thermal data and to connect a "constant temperature" source to the thermal pin.