Microwave Journal
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Signal Integrity Design Suite

January 17, 2011
The AWR SI design suite is the industry’s first cross-domain signal integrity (SI) solution specifically developed for designing and analyzing high-frequency, high-speed electronics circuits. Engineers can now identify, analyze, and fix signal integrity issues early in the design cycle, ensuring that their designs work correctly the first time and speeding time to market. This powerful new software suite combines the unique AWR design environment and unified data model with a signal integrity analysis environment, providing comprehensive, easy-to-use analysis capabilities that work seamlessly in one unified platform. The solution supports multiple process technologies, enabling concurrent design and signal integrity analysis of complex interconnects spanning chip, package, module, and printed circuit board (PCB) design boundaries. The SI design suite offers comprehensive signal integrity analysis capabilities built on top of ground-breaking AWR Analog Office® Intelligent Net™ (iNet) technology, an industry-first, interconnect-driven/RF aware methodology focused on accurate RF/microwave interconnect modeling and analysis throughout the entire design process. · Combines unique AWR Design Environment and unified data model · Uses concurrent design technology vs. a serial design flow · Supports multiple process technologies, enabling concurrent design and signal integrity analysis of complex interconnects spanning IC, package, module, and PCB design boundaries · Utilizes Intelligent Net™ (iNet) technology to extract and model complex cross-domain interconnects “on-the-fly” · Supports multiple electromagnetic (EM) simulation and analyses tools · Robust EMSight™ technology · Provides fast, high-capacity AWR harmonic balance simulator for comprehensive and accurate frequency-domain simulation