Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Ansoft Europe | Subject: EMpowering Profitability workshop
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 24 September 2002
Workshop focuses on high-frequency design
Ansoft Europe is holding its EMpowering Profitability workshop on 6th November in High Wycombe
Free for design engineers, the workshop addresses the benefits of employing simulation tools/techniques in the design of microwave and optical circuits, communication systems, integrated circuits and their packages, and high-datarate PCBs. Ansoft Europe's Sales Manager Charles Blackwood comments: "We're inviting our valued customers, industry experts and interested parties to attend the free workshop to learn about the emerging methodologies for tackling high-speed and high-frequency design.
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The workshop will focus on how simulation techniques enable right-first-time product development".
Technical presentations to be given on the day will include: "PCB design for 10Gbit small factor pluggable (XFP) optical modules"; "Designing LTCC RF modules for communications systems"; "Advanced VCO design"; and "Power integrity and ground bounce simulation of high-speed PCBs".
Also, Ansoft Corporation Europe will debut Ansoft Designer, Ansoft's HF tool that integrates electromagnetic simulation with circuit and system analysis.
Delegates will receive copies of presentation material and Ansoft Europe's top three senior applications engineers will be on hand throughout the day to give practical advice and guidance on any projects that attendees may be working on.
Between them, the senior applications engineers have more than 40 years design experience.
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Why "EMpowering Profitability"?
Blackwood explains that today's high-datarate designs are fraught with numerous signal integrity challenges: "Failure to take into account the effects on signal integrity means designers are running the risk of designing products which should work - but don't.
With today's time-to-market pressures, companies just cannot afford to continue using yesteryear's trial-and-error approach to product design".
For example, LTCC is now a popular, reliable and stable device technology, however LTCC components are difficult to design because of their multi-layered form.
Many LTCCs are still designed using standard single board PCB design tools.
However, LTCC performance can only be fully characterised using high-performance EM simulation.
The High Wycombe venue constitutes the UK element of the European leg of Ansoft's 26-city worldwide EMpowering Profitability tour.
Other European venues are: Stockholm, Sweden (4th November); Paris, France (7th); Munich, Germany (12th); and Milan, Italy (14th).
EMpowering Profitability is Ansoft's third workshop tour of this magnitude and builds on the huge success and popularity of the "Ride The Wave" and "No Boundaries" workshops held in 2001 and 2000, respectively.
Blackwood concludes: "The EMpowering Profitability workshop on 6th November is an ideal opportunity for design engineers, project managers and technical directors to witness how simulation techniques are helping companies solve otherwise daunting technical challenges and achieve shorter design phases and faster time to market/profit".
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