Sigrity Unveils Breakthrough Channel Designer
Solution
Advanced capabilities accelerate design of high-speed
serial links
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - January 20, 2009
— Sigrity, Inc., the market leader in signal and power integrity
solutions for ICs, packages and printed circuit boards, today announced
Channel Designer™, an advanced analysis solution. It offers the flexibility
and accuracy required for high-speed serial links, which have emerged as the
communications backbone for modern design.
"Our customers have found that designs with high-speed serial
links operating at multi-gigabit speeds require more than traditional analysis," said
Dr. Jiayuan Fang, president of Sigrity. "It is essential to accurately predict bit
error rate to ensure a robust implementation that can handle anticipated jitter and
noise levels. With millions of bits of data to be considered over a wide frequency
spectrum from DC to tens of gigahertz, it can be extremely challenging to obtain
reliable time-domain simulation results from band-limited channel models.
Channel Designer provides unparalleled precision, and builds on Sigrity's long-standing
strength in S-parameter handling for
accurate system-level transient simulation."
Channel Designer has many advanced features to help designers
at every stage from feasibility studies through design verification. Its unique
net-based block-wise schematic editor, pioneered by Sigrity, supports rapid design
capture for a single net interconnect or a complete bus traversing multiple boards.
Sigrity's Model Connection Protocol (MCP) automatically connects circuit models for
each element of the channel identified in the schematic. Channel templates of board,
package and connector structures are provided. Detailed models extracted from physical
layout user databases are swapped in as designs progress. Channel Designer fully
supports the IBIS Algorithmic Modeling Interface (AMI), which has emerged as the
industry standard for transmitter and receiver modeling. AMI models now are available
from leading IC vendors, and Sigrity provides a number of useful generic AMI-compatible
transmitter and receiver models for early assessments of IO behavior. Sigrity's unique
support for cascaded AMI models
simplifies model creation, testing and use.
Channel Designer uses equalization and clock data recovery
(CDR) modeling to anticipate the end-to-end behavior of serial links, and it
rapidly simulates design alternatives.
Advanced scenario sweep automation quickly identifies design boundaries.
Channel Designer also includes automated crosstalk
analysis that specifically targets crosstalk-induced jitter and noise arising
in links operating at more than 10 gigabits per second. Designers can quickly
assess crosstalk from any number of sources, anywhere along the channel.
The channel analysis output includes 2D and 3D eye diagrams, along with
bathtub curves,
for accurate bit error rate prediction.
Pricing and Availability
Channel Designer will be available on Windows and
Linux platforms this quarter with pricing starting at $30,000.
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.
Sigrity, the Sigrity logo and Channel Designer are trademarks of Sigrity, Inc.
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