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Thermal Resistance MOSFET

I have a basic question that hope someone can help me out.

When on a datasheet it is specified that RthJA = X degC/W on 1"sqr... does it imply that it is on a 1 layer board?.(CSD16411W3 is RthJA = 47degC/W)

The reason I'm asking is because on this paper http://www.nxp.com/documents/application_note/AN10874.pdf they show an improvement in temperature  performance when using  more than 1 layer and even better when using thermal vias to connect top and bottom layers.

If the datasheet number is assuming one layer then this numbers should be 40%-50% better if using this method (footprints are different but I think it should also apply).

Thanks in advance

Jaime