This integration helps ensure that signal and power structure geometries are passed electromagnetic (EM) ports are formed simulations are run and S-parameter results are incorporated into time-domain simulations automatically.

The 3D engine is integrated, so the user may not have to learn the intricacies of a full-wave-solver environment.

The new HyperLynx release provides electromagnetic solvers, including full-wave 3D, enabling users to help keep pace with SERDES technologies. SERDES technology adoption has increased the frequencies used in digital signaling, as even a more mainstream protocol, such as PCIe Gen3, runs at 8 Gb/s. Meeting the Challenges of New Technologies The product now combines a faster geometry extraction engine and more advanced materials modeling (for wideband dielectrics, copper roughness, etc.) to produce more accurate simulations. Mentor has invested heavily in HyperLynx analysis technology, particularly for interconnect modeling.

Users can simulate a SERDES channel, and then by selecting a single new menu item, switch to analysis of a large power net's decoupling. By contrast, the HyperLynx tool now offers 2D/3D signal and power integrity analysis in a single application, with one GUI. Most tool sets offered by a single EDA vendor typically require switching applications and user interfaces for different types of analysis. High-speed PCBs vary greatly in size, layer count, routing density, signaling speed, types of silicon used, and power-delivery challenges. Spanning a range of underlying simulation engines and a graphical user interface (GUI) that supports both quick/interactive and exhaustive batch-mode analysis, the HyperLynx product now supports deployment of these capabilities in one common environment. Based on the HyperLynx signal integrity/power integrity (SI/PI) application, this product offers designers a set of analysis technology for designing many types of digital printed circuit boards (PCB). Mentor Graphics Corporation announced its newest HyperLynx release, which integrates signal and power integrity analysis, 3D-electromagnetic solving, and rule checking into a single unified environment.

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