News Release from: Interactive Products Corp
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 1 July 2002
Simulator adds Spice to high-speed interconnects
IFS Pro is a high-speed analogue simulation package for anyone involved in PCB, cable, connector, VLSI, and related interconnect media design.
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IFS Pro is a software package specifically developed for design engineers with high speed analogue simulation requirements involved in PCB, cable, connector, VLSI, and related interconnect media design. As datarates escalate beyond 1Gbit/s, the microwave frequency domain characteristics of the interconnect system become increasingly important. The traditional microwave frequency dependent "port" measurements are scattering or S parameters, impedance or Z parameters, and transmission or T and ABCD parameters.
IFS Pro simulates all these parameters quickly and accurately prior to prototyping.
IFS Pro uses novel technology for modelling high-speed frequency-dependent losses in transmission line systems through the use of a unique lossy Spice network model generator and simulator.
This makes Interactive Products the first signal integrity tool company to produce a generic Spice model that can be run in any Spice platform that accurately models frequency-dependent losses (traditional frequency-dependent models account for a single frequency only).
This adds to the existing boundary element platform, which automatically generates an extensive electromagnetic report for any arbitrary geometry and augments the various Spice models created.
IFS Pro produces numerous Spice models ranging from lossless/lossy ladder to lossless/lossy modal, for both time domain and frequency domain analysis.
Time-domain plots include: voltage (including Vin,Vout, and crosstalk); and impedance probes (including single-ended and differential).
Frequency-domain plots include S-parameter, VSWR and eye pattern.
The software also produces a full EMI network circuit model and simulation.
IFS Pro features niche user interfaces catering for three distinct market segments for ease of use and speed: the EZ Stack-up module (for PCB, flex circuit, backplane and IC designers); the EZ Geometry module (for cable and connector designers); and a DXF import module (for handling drawings in existing CAD applications).
A fully functional trial version of IFS Pro can be downloaded from the Interactive Products website, which also features a guided tour of the package.
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