SiSoft and Physware Demonstrate Joint Solution for
Serial Link Design and Analysis
SiSoft and Physware to Demonstrate Joint
Solution for Serial Link Design and Analysis at DesignCon
2009
Santa Clara, CA
- February 2, 2009 - Signal Integrity Software,
Inc. (SiSoft™) and Physware, Inc. (Physware™) announced they
will demonstrate how Physware's PhysWAVE™ and SiSoft's
Quantum Channel Designer™ can be used together in a
multi-gigabit serial link design and analysis flow. The two
companies will demonstrate a flow that lets designers
quickly evaluate tradeoffs in their passive channel design
against different SerDes IP equalization strategies.
In the demonstration to be shown at DesignCon 2009, PhysWAVE
was used to create parameterized models for different via
design alternatives. PhysWAVE swept-parameter analysis was used
to automatically create models for 120 possible combinations of
differential via entry and exit layers, antipad and
backdrilling options. Quantum Channel Designer reads in 120
S-parameter models and adds them to its library within seconds,
then allows designers to interactively evaluate the performance
of different via options and SerDes equalization configurations
on overall link behavior.
“Effective high speed serial link design requires evaluation of
different channel design alternatives and their impact on link
performance” noted Feng Ling, Physware's VP of Engineering.
“Via design is an area of intense study because there is always
a tradeoff between minimizing the discontinuity a via imposes
on the signal and other considerations, such as maintaining
copper area in the planes under complex IC's. PhysWAVE's high
speed, accurate performance and inherent scalability make it
ideally suited to rapidly and automatically creating a large
collection of via models that can be evaluated in the context
of the overall channel using a tool that can efficiently work
with large data sets, such as Quantum Channel Designer.”, he
added.
“In the past, designers have been unable to run enough
simulation to validate their combined channel / SerDes design”,
said Barry Katz, President and CTO of SiSoft. “As a result,
most designers have had to focus on their passive channel
design alone. Quantum Channel Designer uses high performance
IBIS-AMI models that allow designers to analyze the combined
behavior of their channel and SerDes IP. Designers can finally
run enough simulation to make tradeoffs between their passive
channel design and SerDes IP configuration. Quantum Channel
Designer can evaluate hundreds of different channel design
configurations (via design, connector pinout, package model,
PCB trace and SerDes IP setting) within minutes, extracting key
design metrics like insertion loss, eye height and projected
Bit-Error-Rate (BER). Using Quantum Channel Designer together
with a high performance, high accuracy 3-D full-wave field
solver such as PhysWAVE gives designers a level of performance
and flexibility they have never had before.”
SiSoft and Physware representatives will be demonstrating
Quantum Channel Designer™ and PhysWAVE™ on the show floor at
DesignCon in Santa Clara. Exhibition hours are from 12:30PM to
6:30PM on both Tuesday and Wednesday, February 3-4. If you are
unable to attend DesignCon 2009 and would like additional
information, please email rkatz@sisoft.com or call at (978)
461-0449, x15.
About SiSoft™
SiSoft™ is the leading provider of integrated signal integrity
and timing solutions for high-speed digital system design.
SiSoft's latest product, Quantum Channel Designer™ (QCD), is a
dedicated, system-level design and analysis environment for
serial links up to 20 Gbps. QCD incorporates the latest
frequency-domain, time-domain and statistical techniques to
simulate the combined behavior of the passive channel and
SerDes IP. Designers capture designs graphically, and then
experiment with different physical layout and equalization
strategies to predict how design tradeoffs affect operating
margins and link Bit Error Rate (BER). Standards-based
(IBIS-AMI) SerDes IP models provide the accuracy and
performance required to meet the needs of serial link
design.
SiSoft's Quantum-SI™ products allow users to rapidly determine
interface operating margins and achieve High-Speed Timing
Closure™, providing unprecedented accuracy in predicting
system-level noise and timing margins. Quantum-SI Interface
Analysis Kits are pre-configured analysis setups for popular
interface standards, such as DDR2 and DDR3, which encapsulate
both interface architectures and design requirements to
accelerate the high-speed design process.
SiSoft's consulting services organization uses Quantum Channel
Designer and Quantum-SI tools to provide advanced high-speed
consulting services including IBIS model development, package
design/analysis and system-level interconnect analysis --
ensuring that SiSoft's signal integrity tools remain at the
forefront of high-speed design.
More information on SiSoft can be found at www.sisoft.com.
About Physware™
Physware, Inc. is a provider of high-speed and high-capacity 3D
electromagnetic field solutions for the microelectronics
industry. The company's patent-pending, physics-aware
technology tightly couples analysis and design methods to the
underlying Maxwell's and circuit equations, enabling robustness
and efficiency at every step of the design cycle across the
entire chip-package-board system and significantly reduces time
to market.
Physware's accelerated technology delivers unprecedented
capacity handling, significantly faster speed than current
methodologies, and the ability to span the entire design cycle
while maintaining concurrent, uncompromising Maxwell
accuracy.
Physware's PhysWAVE provides Maxwell-accurate true-parallel
high-speed 3D broadband full-wave EM solutions for SI, PI and
EMI from Chip to System. Physware's PhysAPEX provides
accelerated extraction of passive and causal net-lists for
package, board, system, SiP and Soc designs.
Physware is a venture-backed, privately-held company led by an
experienced management team.
More information on Physware can be found at
www.physware.com.
SiSoft, Quantum Channel Designer, Quantum-SI, and High-Speed
Timing Closure™ are trademarks of Signal Integrity Software,
Inc. PhysWAVE, PhysAPEX, Physware, Design for Integrity are
trademarks of Physware, Inc. Any other trademarks mentioned in
this release are the property of their respective owners.
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Media Contacts:
Ronda Katz, Signal Integrity Software, Inc. (SiSoft),
978-461-0449
Bala Vishwanath, Physware, Inc.,
425-458-0597
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