PCB Power Integrity Design & Analysis

PCB Power integrity (PI) analysis is an essential part of modern electronic design. The ever-increasing numbers of voltages used by ICs, in addition to dramatic increases in power consumption, make the challenges of improving power integrity an exceedingly difficult task. Compounding these challenges are reduced layer counts and finer pitch BGA footprints that perforate copper planes, making it difficult to supply DC voltage and current.

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With inadequate power delivery, designs can exhibit seemingly intermittent signal integrity issues, which cause the logic on the board to fail. If power delivery is extremely poor, there can be complete part failure due to inadequate voltage and/or current resulting in a non-functional design.

Hardware engineers, PCB designers, and signal integrity specialists alike can use HyperLynx® PI and generate simulation results without weeks of software training. HyperLynx enables you to:

  • Improve power integrity by identifying power distribution problems early in the design, even prior to layout.
  • Detect problems with your design that would be difficult to spot in the lab
  • Investigate solutions in an easy-to-use what-if environment.

DesignVision Award

Mentor Graphics HyperLynx PI (Power Integrity) Wins the 2010 DesignVision Award for System Modeling and Simulation.

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These power integrity capabilities will ultimately help you reduce prototype spins and get to market faster, while creating more reliable products. PCB Signal Integrity is also an essential part of modern electronic design. Designers and specialists alike can use HyperLynx as a team to achieve optimal results.

Highlights

Reduce development time and cost

  • 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

More time for bigger ideas

  • Use the time and money you save to push the creative envelope, coming up with bigger, better ideas to differentiate your products

Lower product costs

  • Explore and validate different design configurations to optimize cost vs. performance tradeoffs
  • Improve reliability through better signal quality in and effective power distribution design

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From the Blogs

Shorter stubs are getting longer

The HyperBlog

…It all depends on how fast you are trying to go.  That’s really the name of the game with anything signal integrity.  The faster we go, the more “new” problems we face.  Even if…View Blog Post

Stupid vias... {grumble grumble}

The HyperBlog

Yeah, I can totally see Homer Simpson designing his SERDES bus and getting frustrated by all the additional insertion loss caused by his vias, and muttering to himself, “Stupid vias…”…View Blog Post

Testimonials

Bogatin Enterprises Customer Reference

Balancing cost/performance tradeoffs is one of the most significant challenges for today’s designers. With the emergence of power integrity, balancing these issues becomes a surmountable challenge... View Testimonial