PowerDC^TM provides comprehensive DC analysis for today's low-voltage, high-current printed circuit board (PCB) and IC package designs.  With PowerDC, critical end-to-end voltage margins can be assessed for every device.  PowerDC quickly identifies areas of excess current density to reduce risk of field failure.  These capabilities enable design teams to carefully manage DC voltage margins and gives rise to opportunity for product improvement.  There are times plane layers can be safely eliminated to reduce costs and improved DC management provides breathing room in designs with hard to achieve AC noise margins.

	PowerDC Data Sheet in PDF format
	PowerDC Applications:
	Locating current hot spots that can lead to thermal problems Pinpointing IR drop and voltage distribution issues Optimizing voltage regulator module (VRM) sense line locations Performing DRC checks to ensure PCB and package designs meet user-specified targets Finding path and loop resistance issues in the entire power delivery system Identifying difficult to locate highly resistive routing neck-downs and finding the one via among thousands that will fail under stress Determining if it is possible to reduce plane layers without adding reliability risk Considering what-if improvement options with interactive geometry editing
	PowerDC Advantages:
	Easy-to-deploy workflow that is ideal for occasional users and experts Fastest available DC analysis run times (even for large designs that include both package and PCB data) Intelligent automated selection of VRM sense line location leading to a direct improvement in voltage margins Comprehensive easy-to-confirm DC design rule validation Highly accurate even for complex designs with multiple voltage domains and complex plane structures Robust underlying finite element method technology Readily used in Cadence, Mentor, Zuken and Altium flows as well as with other signal and power integrity tools
	Evaluation
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