Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Ansoft Europe | Subject: Spicelink 5.0
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 7 June 2002
Spice tool addresses
gigabit datarate devices
Ansoft will showcase Spicelink version 5.0 next week at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in New Orleans
Spicelink 5.0 is a true three-dimensional, signal-integrity, and parasitic extraction tool for the design of high-speed devices, such as ICs, PCBs and IC packaging. Consisting of multiple electromagnetic solver engines, an easy-to-use drawing tool, and a built-in simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis (Spice), Spicelink 5.0 provides engineers with a complete environment to extensively analyse their high-speed electronic designs.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 June 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Unique to version 5.0 is the multi-PEEC (partial element equivalent circuit) technology for producing accurate, three-dimensional, distributed models for gigabyte datarate designs.
Combined with a multipole-acceleration method and a model order reduction algorithm, the extraction and simulation time of the resulting multi-PEEC subcircuit is optimised.
Moreover, Spicelink can now use the power and fast memories of 64bit Unix computing platforms, delivering a tenfold increase in the size and complexity of the structures the software can simulate.
Spicelink implements key solver modules as 64bit executables, increasing its accessible memory space to accommodate the large memories typical of high-end workstations.
Spicelink 5.0 also features an I/O Buffer Information Specification (IBIS) driver.
Customers can use the IBIS driver to run system simulations with Ansoft interconnect models to provide system-level, time domain simulation information, such as delays, overshoot, undershoot, skews, crosstalk, and reflections.
In addition to multi-PEEC technology, IBIS integration, and 64bit architecture on Sun and HP machines, Spicelink 5.0 incorporates a significant number of user enhancements.
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