Before revision: This paper introduces a new global analytical model of the heat dissipation process that occurs in passively-cooled embedded systems , and explicits under what circumstances the folklore assumption that exponential cooling laws apply in such context is valid.
After revision: This paper introduces a new global analytical model of the heat dissipation process that occurs in passively-cooled embedded systems is introduced, and we explicit under what circumstances the folklore assumption that exponential cooling laws apply in such context is valid.