SI/PI Engineer Onboarding Training
Date | Version | Country | Location | |
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Scheduled upon demandOn demand | EXPRESS INTERESTINQUIRE |
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23.1 | Online | ENROLL |
Other Versions | Online | EXPRESS INTERESTINQUIRE |
Length: 6.6 Days (53 hours)
Course Description
This learning plan will introduce the Allegro® System Capture schematic entry tool, followed by in-depth coverage of the Sigrity™ Aurora product and the Sigrity SystemSI product for parallel bus and serial link analysis. You will start with a brief introduction to the Pulse Data Platform, followed by modules using the Allegro System Capture schematic entry tool. You will then use Sigrity Aurora to run traditional signal and power integrity analysis in a pre-layout and post-layout PCB design. You will also use the in-design analysis tools provided by Sigrity Aurora to bridge the gap between design and analysis. You will wrap up the learning plan with the Sigrity SystemSI product where you will run both pre-route and post-route simulations on a parallel bus interface as well as a high-speed serial link interface.
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Introduction to Pulse
- Identify the key attributes of the Pulse Data Platform
- Allegro X System Capture
- Create a System Capture project
- Create a flat System Capture design
- Copy System Capture schematic pages
- Generate a BOM report
- Edit properties
- Sigrity Aurora
- Create, extract, and explore topologies
- Run solution space analysis
- Create an electrical constraint set
- Apply constraints to drive placement and routing
- Analyze nets on the routed board design for signal integrity
- Use the Workflow Manager to analyze impedance, crosstalk, and IR Drop on a PCB
- SystemSI for Parallel Bus and Serial Link Analysis
- Build a block-level topology of parallel bus systems (PBSs) in the System SI-PBA II tool and serial link systems (SLSs) in the SystemSI-SLA II tool
- Assign IBIS models to the functional blocks of the PBSs and SLSs
- Generate a W-Element transmission line model to represent pre-routed parallel bus or serial link interfaces
- Connect blocks of PBSs and SLSs, using the model connection protocol (MCP)
- Set analysis options, including channel simulation options, before simulating these PBSs and SLSs
- Set voltage and current probe points in PBSs and SLSs
- Set various types of sweeping parameters
- Run simulations and sweep simulations
- Generate simulation-based reports with tables and waveforms
- View tables, 2D plots, Eye Diagrams, BER Eye plots, Bathtub plots, impulse and ramp responses of the channel, etc.
- Analyze simulation-based results, waveforms and tables to evaluate the power and signal integrity performance of the PBSs and SLSs
- Modify the PBSs by replacing the S-parameters model of the parallel bus interface by its broadband circuit model, by adding another memory block(s), by replacing IBIS models of the controller and memory blocks, etc.
- Modify SLSs by adding AMI models or by adding IBIS-AMI models to transmitter and receiver blocks, adding Via models generated by the built-in Via Wizard, etc.
- Use the built-in serial link system template for crosstalk analysis for exploring signal degradation of the primary serial link channel due to other coupled serial links
- Run a simulation of the modified PBSs and SLSs and generate simulation-based results
- Compare power and signal integrity performance of the modified PBSs and SLSs, based on the waveforms, timing parameters in the tables of the generated reports.
Software Used in This Course
- Allegro X System Capture
- Sigrity Aurora
- SystemSI
Software Release(s)
SPB23.1,Sigrity 2023.0
Modules in this Course
- The Onboarding class contains the following:
Audience
- Design Engineers
- Electrical Engineers
Prerequisites
You must have experience with or knowledge of the following":
- The front-to-back PCB design flow
- A familiarity with digital and analog circuit design methodology
- A working knowledge of PCB signal analysis and transmission line theory
- Power and signal integrity issues in the high-speed parallel bus and serial link systems
- Transmission lines, S-parameters, and electrical modeling of PCB and IC packages
- Printed circuit board layouts, such as layers, planes, stackup, vias, dielectric constants, conductivity, etc.