Signal Integrity Design, Simulation, & Analysis
The HyperLynx® suite enables engineers to quickly and accurately analyze and eliminate signal integrity, power integrity and EMI problems early in the design cycle. These simulation tools come ready to use in virtually any design flow and offer unprecedented time-to-results, improving productivity, reducing development and product costs, and increasing product performance.
"The HyperLynx Power Integrity tool is everything that I could have hoped for." Alexander Golian, Principal Design Engineer
"There have been a couple of instances where the general rule of thumb has not exactly held true, and we wouldn't have known it if we had not run a HyperLynx Signal Integrity analysis. I see huge benefits in saving us from design re-spins." Jay Sklenar, Electrical Engineer
Power Integrity
Power integrity (PI) analysis is an essential part of modern electronic design. The ever-increasing number of voltages used by ICs, in addition to dramatic increases in power consumption, make proper power delivery an exceedingly difficult task. Compounding these issues are reduced layer counts, smaller noise margins, and increasing frequencies.
With inadequate power delivery, designs exhibit signal integrity errors, which cause the logic on the board to fail.
Hardware engineers, PCB designers, and signal integrity specialists alike can use HyperLynx PI; getting simulation results without requiring weeks of software training. You can identify power distribution problems early in the design, even prior to layout. You can also identify problems with your design that would be difficult to identify in the lab, and investigate solutions in an easy-to-use what-if environment. This will ultimately help you reduce prototype spins and get to market faster, while creating more reliable products.
Signal Integrity
Signal integrity (SI) analysis is an essential part of modern electronic design. Increasingly fast edge rates in today’s integrated circuits (ICs) cause detrimental high-speed effects, even in PCB designs running at low operating frequencies. As driver ICs switch faster, a growing volume of boards suffer from signal degradation, including over/undershoot, ringing, glitching, crosstalk, and timing problems. When degradation becomes serious enough, the logic on a board can fail.
Hardware engineers, PCB designers and signal integrity specialists alike can use HyperLynx as a team; getting simulation results without requiring weeks of software training. The emphasis is on getting designs right the first time, avoiding costly overdesign, and saving recurrent layout, prototype and test cycles in the lab.
Key Benefits
- Reduce design re-spins through up-front planning and virtual prototypes
- Focus on time-to-results, leveraging HyperLynx’s renowned ease of use coupled with powerful simulation technology
- Explore and validate different design configurations to optimize cost vs. performance tradeoffs
- Improve reliability through better signal quality in and effective power distribution design
- Use the time and money you save to push the creative envelope, coming up with bigger, better ideas to differentiate your products
Datasheets
- HyperLynx SI (PDF, 202kb)
- HyperLynx PI (PDF, 688kb)
Toolbox
- TECHPUB: Opening Eyes on Fiber Weave and CAF
- On-demand Web Seminar: Solving IR Drop Challenges for Effective Power Delivery
- TECHPUB: Power Integrity Effects of High Density
- TECHPUB: Measuring the Performance of Equalized Serial Data Links Across the Design Flow
- On-demand Web Seminar: Design for Signal & Power Integrity with HyperLynx 8.0 On-Demand Web Seminar
Contact Mentor Graphics
- HyperLynx Signal & Power Integrity Info Request or call toll free: 1-800-547-3000