Technical Specifications
- Industry-renowned ease of use: automated workflows guide users through setup and analysis step by step
- High-performance, high-capacity simulation engines
- Automated post-route verification integrates with all major PCB layout systems
- Pre-route graphical editor allows import of layout data and interactive modification to provide “what-if” analysis of potential design changes
- Analyze DC voltage drop and current density
- Identify potential DC power delivery issues such as excessive voltage drop, high current densities, excessive via currents and associated temperature rise
- View simulation results in graphical and report format, making problems in DC power delivery quick and easy to identify
- Predict temperature rise with PI/thermal co-simulation
- Analyze AC power distribution network (PDN) behavior
- Analyze power distribution impedance at multiple locations on PCB
- Verify PDN impedance against component manufacturer specifications
- Optimize capacitors use, placement, and mounting in your PDN through analysis
- Quickly investigate different design strategies for your PDN and their effect on impedance
- Explore different stack-ups, capacitor selections, placements and mounting schemes
- Extract models of the system PDN
- Extract PDN models as S-parameters, Z-parameters, or Y-parameters
- Automated PDN Decoupling Optimizer
- Synthesizer pass uses 6 different algorithms to create base populations of decoupling capacitors
- Optimizer pass uses accelerated genetic optimization techniques to find solutions that meet impedance requirements and reduce total design costs