Press Release
For
Immediate Release
Breakthrough Sigrity Power
Delivery System Platform First to Deliver Analysis,
Verification and Cost-Driven Optimization for High-Speed PCB
and IC Package Designs
OptimizePITM automates decoupling capacitor
selection and placement to significantly reduce
manufacturing costs without sacrificing P\performance
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 5, 2006
— Sigrity, Inc., known for its power
and signal integrity software solutions for integrated
circuits, IC packages and printed circuit boards (PCBs),
today announced OptimizePI -- a next-generation Power
Delivery System (PDS) solution that is the first to
provide minimum-cost decoupling capacitor (decap)
selection and placement to achieve desired PDS
performance. This new solution is based on Sigrity's
analysis and verification capabilities for the entire
PCB and IC package structure. It lets designers assess
PDS performance against design specifications, make
interactive 'what if' decap placement and selection
investigations, minimize decap cost for specified PDS
performance, and judge performance vs. lowest-cost
tradeoffs. the first-ever solution to include these
capabilities, OptimizePI helps to eliminate unnecessary
costs associated with the common PDS practice of
over-design.
OptimizePI considers both component
and manufacturing costs during its automated selection and
placement of decoupling capacitors. Its use results in
significant cost savings, both through component count
reduction and selection of lower-cost capacitors, with no
degradation of PDS performance. Decap cost savings pf 50
percent have been observed. Using OptimizePI, designers can
recapture the PCB or IC package area for unnecessarily
placed decap pads and vias. The availability of this newly
unused area enables them to meet overall product size
constraints, more effectively perform escape routing and,
potentially, reduce the number of layers in the PCB stack-up
to achieve additional cost savings.
According to Jiayuan Fang, president
of Sigrity, "Our customers tell us that, until now, power
integrity tools did not explicitly consider design cost or
optimization, forcing them to 'best guess' decap placement
in their designs, or resort to over-designing. OptimizePI
relieves them of this burden and the costs of
unnecessarily robust performance. It helps them make
effective business-level decisions and results in
significant cost savings for their companies."
OptimizePI completely automates the
application of Sigrity's most advanced power integrity
analysis algorithms, and requires no special expertise. It
can be used by any PDS designer for new designs, and by
manufacturing engineers for existing products. Equally
effective for performance-driven and cost-driven product
designs, OptimizePI provides a set of minimum-cost decap
design alternatives across a range of PDS performance. This
data enables designers to quickly recognize and avoid
regions of diminishing returns for cost or performance.
Fang added, "OptimizePI
revolutionizes Power Integrity design. It is the first
commercially available solution to provide minimal cost PDS
designs that also ensure high performance. The days of
post-production trial-and-error decap tweaking are over;
replaced by a future of performance vs. minimum-cost
decisions by OptimiePI."
Pricing and Availability
OptimizePI will be available in June
of this year, priced from $35,000 USD for an annual license.
Sigrity will also demonstrate OptimizePI on March 27-28 in
Booth #213 at the PCB Design Conference West in the Santa
Clara CA Convention Center.
About
Sigrity
Sigrity, Inc., a privately held U.S.
company incorporated in 1998, delivers advanced software
solutions for package physical design and for analyzing
power and signal integrity in chips, packages and printed
circuit boards. Sigrity’s patented electrical analysis
methodologies run orders of magnitude faster than
general-purpose electromagnetic tools, helping leading
companies in the semiconductor, computer, graphics,
communications and networking industries ensure high
performance and reduce time to market. The company is
headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., with direct sales and
global distribution through worldwide representatives. For
more information about how to ensure operational designs by
using Sigrity’s package physical design and power and signal
integrity analysis solutions, please visit:
http://www.sigrity.com
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