Patent ID: 8038343

Claim:
A computer program product for thermally characterizing a device used for cooling an electronic device, the computer program product comprising: a non-transitory storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing: operating a cooling device thermally coupled to a heat pipe having a surface to receive-a test chip, the test chip including a heater patterned on a circuitry side of the test chip, the heater being separate from operational circuitry of the test chip; selectively applying a localized heat source to at least one region on a test chip thermally coupled to said heat pipe to locally heat more than one region on a second surface of the test chip to test more than one hot spot, wherein the second surface is the circuitry side of the test chip, wherein the heater provides a bias heat to the test chip, independent of operating the test chip, while the localized heat source is selectively applied directly to the test chip; using a temperature detector to measure a temperature distribution on the second surface of the test chip; and using said temperature distribution to thermally characterize said cooling device during operation.