Features and Benefits:
- Signal Integrity Analysis: HyperLynx offers advanced signal integrity analysis capabilities to assess the quality and integrity of high-speed digital and analog signals in a design. It enables engineers to model transmission lines, perform impedance analysis, evaluate crosstalk and eye diagram quality, and simulate and analyze signal integrity issues such as reflections, ringing, and timing violations.
- Power Integrity Analysis: The tool suite includes power integrity analysis features to ensure proper power distribution and minimize noise and voltage fluctuations. Engineers can assess power delivery networks, analyze power distribution impedance, evaluate decoupling capacitor placements, and simulate power integrity issues such as voltage droops and noise.
- Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Analysis: HyperLynx provides EMC analysis capabilities to assess the susceptibility of a design to electromagnetic interference (EMI) and evaluate its compliance with EMC standards. Engineers can analyze radiated and conducted emissions, identify potential sources of EMI, and optimize design elements to reduce EMI and improve EMC performance.
- Pre- and Post-Layout Analysis: HyperLynx supports both pre-layout and post-layout analysis. During the pre-layout stage, engineers can simulate and analyze design performance using virtual prototypes, ensuring proper design constraints and optimizing signal and power integrity aspects. Post-layout analysis allows engineers to verify and validate the design against the actual layout, considering routing parasitics and real-world board conditions.
- 3D Electromagnetic Simulation: The tool suite includes 3D electromagnetic simulation capabilities to analyze complex structures, such as connectors, vias, and packages. Engineers can perform full-wave electromagnetic simulations to evaluate signal propagation, parasitics, and crosstalk, helping to optimize the design for improved performance and reduced electromagnetic interference.
- Design Rule Checking (DRC): HyperLynx offers design rule checking capabilities to enforce design guidelines and constraints. It allows engineers to define and verify design rules related to signal integrity, power integrity, and EMC, ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices.
- Design Exploration and Optimization: The tool suite includes features for design exploration and optimization. Engineers can perform “what-if” analysis to explore different design scenarios, evaluate trade-offs, and optimize parameters to achieve desired design performance and reliability.
- Integration and Collaboration: HyperLynx seamlessly integrates with popular PCB design tools, allowing data exchange and collaboration with other design disciplines. It enables engineers to import board layouts, verify design constraints, and synchronize design changes between the PCB design environment and HyperLynx analysis tools.
- Reporting and Documentation: HyperLynx provides comprehensive reporting capabilities to communicate analysis results and design insights effectively. Engineers can generate detailed reports with graphs, tables, and visualizations, enabling clear communication of design performance, issues, and recommendations.