When:
Thursday, March 20, 11:00 a.m.–Noon (PDT)
Who Should Attend:
Engineers designing multi-gigabit serial links, such as 10-gigabit
Ethernet, 8.5 Gb/s Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, and PCI Express 3.0
Details:
This one-hour Web seminar introduces two new simulation technologies—fast
transient and statistical tools—that are now included in
Nexxim®, Ansoft’s
circuit simulation engine.
The new features include a fast transient tool that uses long, user-defined bit patterns to produce an eye diagram. This analysis allows engineers to create controlled stress tests and to identify specific bit sequences that cause bit errors. The statistical tool produces both eye diagram plots and BER curves for complete high-speed channels in minutes. Because these technologies link to full-wave electromagnetic field solvers and a high-capacity circuit simulation engine, accuracy is not sacrificed for the improved simulation speed.
After a brief introduction, two channel examples will be demonstrated. The first channel will serve to highlight the general capabilities of the simulation technologies. The second will demonstrate the use of the tool in the pre-layout design of a serialized/deserialized (SerDes) channel with equalization developed for IBM’s next-generation BladeServer backplane.
