Signal Integrity

Register today for our no-charge half-day workshop Signal Integrity Design Using Channel Simulation and EM Co-design!

Dates & Locations

Tuesday, February 9 and Thursday, February 11	Agilent Technologies Aristotle Room 5301 Stevens Creek Blvd Santa Clara, CA 95051 Done! Thanks for attending!
Tuesday, March 16	Agilent Technologies Boston/Chatham Light Room 40 Shattuck Road Andover, MA 01810 Done! Thanks for attending!
Thursday, March 18	Agilent Technologies Packard Room B 10 N. Martingale Road Suite 550 Schaumburg, IL 60173
Tuesday, March 23	Agilent Technologies 4330 West Chandler Blvd Pinnacle/Ironwood Rooms Chandler, AZ 85224

Abstract: Signal integrity engineers need to determine ultralow BER contours for thousands of points in the design space in order to select the optimum set of characteristics for transmitter, channel, and receiver. Traditional techniques consume a prohibitively long simulation time. For this reason we’ve implemented a new statistical mode in our Channel Simulator that eliminates the need for long, multi-million-bit simulations. Now you can generate eye diagrams with ultralow BER contours in just a few seconds.

This in-depth hands-on workshop will demonstrate the “what if” design space exploration workflow that our new statistical eye diagram channel simulator enables, and will also cover tools and modes that can be used in exceptional cases (e.g. equalizer adaptation, non-linearity, or specific bit patterns) where statistical eye techniques cannot be applied.

You will get first hand experiencing using signal integrity features that are new in ADS 2009 Update 1 and EMPro 2009, including electromagnetic (EM) co-design using critical nets extracted from enterprise board tools such as Allegro.

Agenda: 9:30a Register/Breakfast
10:00a Hands-on workshop part 1: Introduction to Channel Simulator in ADS 2009 Update1

• Bit-by-bit mode
• Statistical mode
• Channel Simulator hands on lab
• Eye diagram simulation using bit-by-bit mode
• Eye mask analysis
• Statistical eye diagram and BER analysis

12:00p Lunch
1:00p Workshop part 2: EM Co-design:

• Extracting critical nets using Allegro Design Flow Integration (Allegro DFI)
• Momentum G2 Element: Method-of-moments EM simulator in ADS
• FEM Element: Finite element method EM simulator in ADS
• FDTD 3DEM simulation with EMPro
• Q&A

3:00p end