Signal Integrity Tips

Mentor® Expedition® is a popular board layout tool but it lacks a 3D-trace-and-via EM simulator like ADS Momentum. Fortunately, you can export your critical nets to Agilent ADS Layout, run Momentum, and extract multi-port S-parameter data from the structure. With S-parameters in hand you can go back into Expedition, or do further optimization, design, and [...]

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You can bet the Mentor accountants will be pulling all-nighters this weekend in preparation for their quarterly earnings announcment on Wednesday. The results will affect Cadence’s hostile bid to acquire Mentor at $16 a share. These nine question give you a chance to voice your opinion, and compare your thoughts to those of the signal integrity [...]

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Cadence® Allegro® is a popular board layout tool but it lacks a 3D-trace-and-via EM simulator like ADS Momentum. Fortunately, you can export your critical nets to Agilent ADS Layout, run Momentum, and extract multi-port S-parameter data from the structure. With S-parameters in hand you can go back into Allegro, or do further optimization, design, and [...]

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This survey is about your plans over the next 12-18 months for compute resources to run signal integrity simulations like SPICE, EM, fast BER etc. Please rate the hardware options below by likelihood of adoption by you or your company. Will you adopt: Please Submit a Comments to leave any further thoughts on this topic. Note this [...]

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