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Why Your Impedance Models May Be Less Accurate Than You Think
For many years, the PCB industry has accepted dielectric values without fully understanding how they were measured—or whether they’re the right values for impedance modeling. This webinar explores what that means for today’s high-speed designs.
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Many complex PCB designs have high data-rate signals like USB, PCIe, DDR and HDMI which call for more thorough verification methods to ensure compliance plus mitigate any signal integrity, power integrity and EMI/EMC issues. Siemens has a methodology that uses automated rule-based electrical verification with an EDA tool,… Read More
Safety engineers, hardware designers and reliability specialists in safety-critical industries like automotive, aerospace, medical device and industrial automation use FMEDA (Failure Modes, Effects and Diagnostic Analysis). ISO 26262 compliance for ADAS, braking systems and ECUs require FMEDA in the automotive sector.… Read More
Siemens has strengthened its position in EDA and manufacturing by acquiring ASTER Technologies, a specialist in test and reliability solutions for printed circuit boards. The acquisition represents a strategic step in Siemens’ broader vision to deliver a fully integrated, end-to-end digital thread for electronics design,… Read More
About User2User Mid-Atlantic
User2User Mid-Atlantic is focused around these areas:
- Printed circuit board design (PCB) and design for manufacturing
- PCB simulation
- Application specific integrated circuit and field programmable gate array: advanced functional verification
- Calibre design
Why attend User2User Mid-Atlantic
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High-speed PCB designs are complex, often requiring a team with design engineers, PCB designers and SI/PI engineers working together to produce a reliable product, delivered on time and within budget. Cadence has been offering PCB tools for many years, and they recently wrote a 10-page white paper on this topic, so I’ll share … Read More
I’ve known about DRC (Design Rule Checking) for IC design, and the same approach can also be applied to PCB design. The continuous evolution of electronics has led to increasingly intricate PCB designs that require Electrical Rule Checking (ERC) to ensure that performance goals are met. This complexity poses several challenges… Read More
Electronic systems design is filled with a wide range of tools used across IC packaging design, multi-board systems, design creation, physical implementation, electro-mechanical co-design, simulation & analysis, and new product introduction. Siemens has been offering tools in this flow for many years now, so I was able… Read More
PCB and package designers need to be concerned with Signal Integrity (SI) issues to deliver electronic systems that work reliably in the field. EDA vendors like Siemens have helped engineers with SI analysis using a simulator called HyperLynx, dating all the way back to 1992. Siemens even wrote a 56-page e-book recently, Signal… Read More
Signal Integrity (SI) and Power Integrity (PI) issues are critical to analyze, ensuring the proper operation of PCB systems and IC packages, yet the computational demands from EDA tools can cause engineers to only analyze what they deem are critical signals, instead of the entire system. Cadence has managed to overcome this SI/PI… Read More