Electrical Rule Checking in PCB Tools

Electrical Rule Checking in PCB Tools
by Daniel Payne on 12-10-2024 at 10:00 am

HyperLynx DRC min

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


Next Generation of Systems Design at Siemens

Next Generation of Systems Design at Siemens
by Daniel Payne on 11-14-2024 at 8:00 am

New, Unified GUI

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


Signal Integrity Basics

Signal Integrity Basics
by Daniel Payne on 11-12-2024 at 10:00 am

Digital and analog waveforms

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, SignalRead More


SI and PI Update from Cadence on Sigrity X

SI and PI Update from Cadence on Sigrity X
by Daniel Payne on 10-22-2024 at 10:00 am

Sigrity X

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