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SIDEA™ is a complete suite of
Signal Integrity DEsign Assistants for parasitic extraction and S-parameter conversion, manipulation and modeling. To efficiently design high-speed electronic systems it is necessary to have a systematic and repeatable signal integrity design flow, ranging from the field-solver simulation to derivation of design rules, circuit simulation, and verification by vector network analyzer (VNA) and time-domain reflectometer (TDR) measurements. Because signal integrity is an evolving field, engineers in the past might purchase a number of signal integrity related software, just to use a specific feature of each software to get their jobs done. Signal integrity experts in larger companies were sometimes found to be writing their own software to solve specific problems. Optimal’s SIDEA was developed to put most-often used signal integrity design tools in one place so engineers need not mix and match software from various sources. How can we quickly perform 2D field-solver simulations and arrive at such design rules as stack-up and width and spacing? How do we know the simulated or measured S-parameters are correct? How many decoupling capacitors do we need for a specific power plane design? These are among many questions SIDEA can help designers answer.
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