scope:

This publication establishes the requirements for the exchange of electronic thermal system level simulation models between supplier and end user in a single neutral file format. The types of model data supported are a sub-set of what is possible to define in any one simulation tool, but with the intention of allowing model data that is common between tools to be exchanged. The data represents three-dimensional model descriptions of an electronics assembly intended to be solved so as to predict thermal and hydrodynamic behaviour using computational fluid dynamics approaches. The data is held in an XML format, conforming to an XML schema that this document describes.