As a member of the Mentor Graphics OpenDoorSM partner program, Sigrity has collaborated with Mentor Graphics to develop an interface from Mentor’s ICX interconnect synthesis design and verification environment to Sigrity’s SPEED2000 (Simulation Package for Electrical Evaluation and Design) tool. By integrating these tools, ICX users will gain access to the complementary functionality of SPEED2000 to model and analyze the power planes in high-speed digital designs.
For today’s most complex, high-speed designs, the accuracy of detailed power analysis is essential to ensure design performance, said Douglas R. Johnson, director of marketing, Systems Design Division, Mentor Graphics. As a result of this partnership, we are able to offer our customers advanced power plane analysis capabilities within an integrated design flow.
By collaborating with a leader in PCB design on this combined solution, we are able to make the capabilities of Sigrity’s SPEED2000 tool available to Mentor’s ICX customer base, said Teo Yatman, vice president of sales, Sigrity. The capabilities of our advanced power analysis tool are complementary to the ICX design flow.
Sophisticated power plane analysis capabilities are required to design power and ground distribution systems for the most complex, high-speed PCB designs, such as those for advanced applications within the military and aerospace, telecommunications and computing industries. To ensure the accurate design of these systems, SPEED2000 will allow ICX users to perform studies of decoupling capacitor placement, analyses of power and ground bounce, evaluation of signal return path discontinuities, and modeling of noise coupling between power and signal distribution systems. It also allows the estimation of electromagnetic radiation from signal traces and edges of power planes.
Using patented technologies, SPEED2000 performs detailed electrical analyses of power and signal distribution systems on entire circuit chip carriers or PCBs to model power and ground fluctuations and the effects of signal return current path discontinuities. SPEED2000’s fast simulation gives it distinct advantages over other solutions available today, allowing for fine numerical meshes to be used when performing analysis to accurately model detailed structures, such as cuts and slots in planes and multiple power and ground layer structures.
Mentor’s ICX solution combines the electrical and physical aspects of a design, providing an integrated design and verification environment for signal integrity and timing analysis during layout. This environment uses true electrical rules to drive the placement and routing of high-speed boards, ensuring electrically-correct designs the first time.
By integrating the ICX environment with SPEED2000, ICX users gain highly detailed analysis functionality to evaluate the effect that power and ground structures will have on a design as it is being implemented. This integration, which leverages the electrical setup done within ICX, is more efficient than other solutions because it minimizes the set-up time required within SPEED2000, and eliminates the need for time-consuming duplication of work when the design data is transferred.
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