PCB Design and Simulation Software Tools

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PCB Board Modeling and Simulation

Printed circuit boards (PCBs), ICs and IC packages are used in almost all electronic products across all industries: automotive, A&D, consumer electronics, healthcare and energy. With electronics getting smaller, engineers need to design boards that are smaller than ever and incorporate all the required features. Accurate modeling and simulation of these components are key to reliable end products.

Comprehensive PCB, IC and IC package solutions

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Foundations of Semiconductor Power Integrity Analysis and Simulation

Come join us for the seventh and final installment in our Electromagnetics Foundation series, discussing the foundations of voltage (IR) and dynamic voltage drop (DVD) analysis, and simulation for system on a chip (SoC) designs..

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Thermal Mechanical Stresses

The potential for failure in electronic systems due to thermal and mechanical loading of printed circuit boards (PCBs) is escalating due to steadily increasing power dissipation, combined with smaller board sizes. Learn how to prevent PCB failures due to thermal and mechanical stresses.

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PCB Design Rules for Electromagnetic Compatibility

Let’s look at some important signal reference related design guidelines and learn how Ansys SIwave, through its built-in EMI Scanner, enables an automatic and customizable signal reference rules check of PCBs to identify areas of potential issues.

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Electronics Reliability

Ensuring electronics reliability is a multi-pronged effort, involving selection, optimization and design rules. But, at the end of the day, almost every organization needs a reliability prediction. How long before the product fails and how will it fail?

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Ansys HFSS

Electronics

A 3D electromagnetic field solver to design high-frequency and high-speed electronic components. Its FEM, IE, asymptotic and hybrid solvers address RF, microwave, IC, PCB and EMI problems.

Solves multi-layer packages
3D layout workflow for PCBs and packages
High-frequency electromagnetic solvers
IP protection through 3D components

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Ansys Slwave

Electronics

A specialized tool for simulating power and signal integrity as well as EMI analysis of IC/PCB packages. Solve for power delivery systems and high-speed channels in electronic devices.

Electrothermal and mechanical analysis
IBIS and IBIS-AMI SerDes analysis
Virtual compliance
Impedance, crosstalk and EMI scanning
Automated decoupling capacitor Optimization

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Ansys Icepak

Electronics

A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver for electronics thermal management. It predicts airflow, temperature and heat transfer in IC packages, PCBs, electronic assemblies, enclosures and power electronics.

Unstructured, body-fitted meshing
Built-in high-fidelity CFD solver
Comprehensive thermal reliability solution
Industry leading multiscale multiphysics
Board-level electrothermal coupling
Extensive libraries for thermal physics

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Ansys Q3D Extractor

ELECTRONICS

Ansys Q3D Extractor calculates the parasitic parameter of frequency-dependent resistance, inductance, capacitance and conductance (RLCG) for electronic products.

Solid modeling
Power/signal integrity analysis
Various extraction types
Automatic, adaptive mesh refinement

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Ansys Sherlock

ELECTRONICS

Provides fast and accurate life predictions for electronic hardware at the component, board and system levels in early design stages to help future-proof your design.

Solder fatigue analysis
Translates ECAD to FEA/CFD in minutes
Turns stress (thermal, mechanical) into life prediction
Embedded, populated, modifiable libraries
Validated time-to-failure predictions

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Ansys RaptorH

Semiconductors

Electromagnetic on-silicon modeling
Includes gold standard HFSS engine
High-capacity and linear multi-CPU scalability
S-param and RCLk parasitic extraction
Models power grids, clock trees, spirals, MiM/MoM caps, etc.
Foundry certified and silicon correlated

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Ansys Exalto

Semiconductors

RLCk signoff extraction tool (post-LVS)
Models electrical, magnetic and substrate coupling
Highly reduced lumped-element models
Complements digital RC extractors
Extract entire SoC power grid in minutes
What-if capability with point-and-click GUI

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Ansys RedHawk-SC

Semiconductors

Golden IR-drop signoff verification for digital designs
Electromigration reliability signoff
Timing impact of dynamic voltage drop aggressors
High-capacity cloud-native infrastructure
Advanced power analytics and build quality metric
Foundry certified for all finFET to 3nm

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Ansys Totem/Totem-SC

Semiconductors

Power integrity and noise verification at transistor level
Totem-SC offers an ultra high-capacity version of Totem
Capacity for several million xtor flat
Simultaneous simulation of digital and analog blocks
Abundant what-if scenarios
Incremental analysis
Creates IP power models for use with RedHawk-SC

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Ansys PowerArtist

Semiconductors

RTL design-for-power platform
Analysis-driven power reduction
Physically-aware RTL power budgeting
Long vector profiling
Direct links to hardware emulators

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Continental Automotive chose Ansys Sherlock for its ability to quantify the changes in reliability of a component due to various system-level effects, including the thermomechanical influence of adhesives.

Continental Automotive Quickly Tests Product Reliability Before Building a Prototype

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WEBINARS

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Practical Ports for Perfect Performance

This webinar spotlights the theoretical basis of various port types and how to use them in real designs to deliver maximum accuracy.

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Ansys 2020 R2: Advancements in Ansys Slwave

This webinar delivers a deep dive into Ansys SIwave’s many significant advancements offered in Ansys 2020 R2.

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Electrical and Thermal Reliability Analysis of PCB with Ansys SIwave, Icepak, Mechanical and Sherlock

In this webinar, learn how Ansys SIwave, Ansys Icepak, Ansys Mechanical and Ansys Sherlock can be used as a comprehensive multi-physics solution to optimize PCB reliability.

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