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.

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.