During circuit design, Design Gateway provides embedded simulation, analysis and electrical rules checking.
Signal Integrity, Power Integrity, EMC
CR-8000 includes fully integrated simulation and analysis tools to verify all aspects of your single or multi-board designs
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A complete simulation and analysis environment
During PCB layout, the Design Force embedded signal integrity, power integrity, electromagnetic interference
Electromagnetic compatibility tools provide a single environment for all of your design team’s simulation and analysis requirements
Signal Integrity
- Constraining and topology planning in pre-layout phase
- Impedance planning with integrated field solver using lossy interconnect models
- Fast interactive time domain simulation for precise timing, reflection, and crosstalk analysis
- Consider IBIS Buffer models
- Use SPICE and S-parameter based models in time-domain
- Inspect automatic timing, skew, and SI measurement results
- Optimize topology by use of parameter sweeps
- Evaluate crosstalk in coupled topologies and scenarios
- Explore impact of manufacturing tolerances and material properties on the SI behaviour
- Utilize comprehensive simulation library model management
- Time-domain Eye Pattern Analysis for parallel busses and serial links
- Inspect Setup and Hold timing
- Define Eye Masks and measure against them
- Time Domain Reflectometry for interconnect optimization
- Drive TDR-Analysis with different speed levels
- Inspect TDR impedances for single line and differential pair interconnects
- Consider feed-in/out lines
- Wideband S-Parameter calculation for interconnect optimization up to 15 GHz
- Inspect Mixed-mode S-Parameters
- Export S-Parameters to Touchstone files
- Enforce causality where needed
- AMI simulation for gigabit SERDES channel optimization
- Characterize serial links (S-Parameter, Transfer function, Impulse response)
- Consider various types of Jitter (TX and RX)
- Easy-to-use parameterization of AMI models
- Inspect time-domain waveforms
- Visualize Eye Pattern and Bathtub curves
- Measure Eye Openings
- Calculate Bit Error Ratio (BER)
Power Integrity and EMI Analysis
- Full board, fast und efficient EMI screening tool identifying major EMI sources
- Evaluate common mode and differential mode emissions
- Visualize I/O crosstalk regions
- Consider various antenna mechanisms
- Wideband PI-Analysis of supply systems up to 15 GHz
- Detect and visualize high AC-impedance regions in supply systems, exploring root causes of resonances
- Evaluate Decap efficiency and mounting inductances, visualize Decap impedances
- Define virtual Decaps for what-if scenarios
- Optimize decoupling strategies, identifying “fear”-Decaps
- DC-Analysis of supply systems identifying voltage drops and high current load regions
- Visualize DC-current and -voltage distribution
- Identify insufficient supply voltages at IC power pins
- Identify stressed Vias under high DC-current load
- Extract DC-resistances between power pins
- Drive supply system with alternative voltage sources for what-if’s
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