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Posts tagged with 'SI'

Fundamentals of SI (Part 1) - Critical nets

Posted Apr 23, 2010, by Steve McKinney

To begin this series on fundamentals of signal integrity, lets start at the very beginning.  Before you start doing any type of simulation or analysis, what do you have to do first, what information do you have to know?  Your design probably has thousands of nets, are you going to simulate all of them??  Probably not, there’s not enough time for that and truthfully, it’s not really necessary.  The first … Read More

Tags: Modeling, IBIS, SI, Critical Nets, Edge Rate, Signal Integrity, high frequency nets, HyperLynx, EMI, Fundamentals

Hard to Believe

Posted Nov 23, 2009, by Mark Forbes

Back in the late ‘90s, I felt I wasn’t getting enough abuse and needed to spend a lot more time working for no pay, so I ran for my community’s school board. One of the reasons that I ran was that the school district had fumbled two applications for funding from the state and received just $400,000 over the previous four years.  Making that a priority, the district received more than $2.5 million over … Read More

Tags: Reduced Product Cost, Product Ddevelopment Cost, Power Analysis, Cost Saving, Data Corruption, Power Integrity, Power Supply Noise, Printed Circuit Board, Boot Error, HyperLynx, PCB Analysis, HyperLynx PI, PCB Simultaion, Data Loss, PI, Expedition Enterprise, Mentor Graphics, HyperLynx SI, PADS, SI, Voltage Sag, Signal Integrity, Voltage Drop