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News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK | Subject: SPEED2000
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 September 2001
Power plane analysis joins high-speed
toolkit
Mentor Graphics has joined with Sigrity to deliver advanced power plane analysis capabilities for high-speed design solutions.
Mentor Graphics has joined with Sigrity to deliver advanced power plane analysis capabilities for high-speed design solutions As a member of the Mentor Graphics OpenDoor partner programme, 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
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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By integrating these tools, ICX users will gain access to the complementary functionality of SPEED2000 to model and analyse the power planes in high-speed digital designs.
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.
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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 minimises the setup time required within SPEED2000, and eliminates the need for time-consuming duplication of work when the design data are transferred.
This capability will be available to ICX users in October 2001.
At that time, Mentor Graphics and Sigrity will make the new interface available for free to existing ICX and SPEED2000 users.
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