HyperLynx: A parallel reality

We’ve all seen those movies where the star is the ultimate technological genius, an engineer who leverages advanced technology to pull off a one-shot time heist, or tackle a complex, multi-domain problem to accomplish their mission and save the universe.

This quest to achieve “first time right” with ultimate control and seamless integration mirrors the challenges engineers face today in the realm of high-speed electronics design and verification.

Before committing to physical fabrication, engineers must have access to a unified digital twin or a “parallel reality” where designers can rapidly simulate, predict, refine and verify every aspect of the design. A shift-left solution that allows them to master these different yet interconnected electrical signals within their native environment. However, the reality for these designers is fragmented: SI tools are distinct from PI tools, which are also separate from EMI analysis tools. This leads to long solver runtimes for individual analysis, disconnected workflows, and error-prone manual data translations between these domains, making it more challenging to establish a cohesive digital twin of their designs.

What if designers today have ONE tool that connects all aspects of their design with unparalleled power and ultimate control of their universe?

The HyperLynx suite of tools: Six tools, one unified environment

HyperLynx suite of tools from Siemens EDA is where the game starts. With its fully integrated family of simulation and verification engines for modern PCB design, it provides all your needs from schematic exploration and pre-layout analysis, through post-layout verification, with all pieces working together from day one. It’s explicitly positioned to create a “digital twin” of the product’s electrical part by enabling accurate simulations of electrical behavior at board and system levels.

HyperLynx  is built to bring advanced simulation capabilities into mainstream PCB workflows via automated guided flows, so designers can make confident decisions earlier within their environment. This reduces physical prototypes and shortens project lifecycle time. Hyperlynx works seamlessly with various PCB tools from other vendors and is an ideal addition to any PCB design flow.

The HyperLynx suite of tools includes six integrated solutions:

1. Signal Integrity (SI):
   Analyzes Double Data Rate (DDR) interfaces, high-speed serial (SerDes) channels, and general-purpose signals to ensure signal quality and operating margins. Engineers can run SI analysis in LineSim early in the design phase or validate post-layout results without complex setup.
2. Power Integrity (PI):
   Modern designs fail more often from power issues than logic errors. HyperLynx PI enables engineers to run DC drop analysis, AC decoupling analysis, and PDN optimization
3. Schematic Analysis (SA)
   HyperLynx SA automates board-level schematic analysis for any PCB design flow. It allows engineers to fully inspect all nets on a schematic using an extensive model library.
4. Electrical Design Rule Check (DRC)
   HyperLynx DRC uses a unique 3D geometry engine to detect issues and resolve complex design problems that are typically hard to find through traditional simulation. This allows specialized SI experts to delegate design checks to less experienced engineers.
5. Analog Mixed-Signal (AMS) simulation
   HyperLynx AMS simulates the ideal behavior of the design by testing that basic circuits work correctly and if electrical requirement can be achieved
6. Advanced Solvers (AS)
   HyperLynx AS provides 3D modeling for system-level analysis, enabling highly accurate DDR interface, SerDes channel, and AC power integrity analyses. It automatically extracts and solves PCB models within these workflows.

HyperLynx AS has 3 types of solvers:

• Full wave Solver (FWS): Used for simulating the very-high frequency behavior of 3D electromagnetic structures with arbitrary geometries.
• Hybrid Solver: Creates EM models for layered electronic structures. It efficiently models large designs by breaking them into traces, planes, and vias, making it ideal for power-aware DDR interface analysis and full-board AC power integrity.
• Quasi-Static Solver: Or fast 3D solver canhandle larger structures than FWS, typically used for package models with parasitic values and pin-pin coupling, and for analog applications below 1GHz where PCB structures are considered lumped elements.

HyperLynx AS provide two automated design optimization methods:

• HyperLynx 3D Explorer (3DEX) for smaller design spaces, it models electromagnetic behavior with high accuracy while remaining accessible to non-EM specialists.
• HyperLynx Design Space Exploration (DSE) for very large design spaces (over 100,000 permutations) using HEEDS SW optimization powered with intelligent SHERPA algorithm to quickly find optimal solutions.

These solutions transform the process of PCB analysis and verification from trial and error, into a simulation-driven, predictable workflow. Rather than piecing together results from isolated simulation tools, HyperLynx provides you with ultimate control, with each tool powerful on its own as a standalone solution, but transformative when used together with the rest of the suite.

We see superheroes simulate millions of possibilities and cracks time travel using AI driven modeling and 3D Holographic table. These science-fiction inspired scenes are technologies that are available today in the world of Siemens Electronic System Design and Manufacturing. You can travel to the future and see what will happen before it happens, know if it works before you build it, and create a constraint driven design and optimize it, with fast “what if” analysis across design variables.

HyperLynx is not just a toolset. It’s a shift-left design philosophy where analysis is pushed to the earliest possible point, simulation replaces guesswork, and automation takes over repetition, thereby ensuring robust sign-off verification.

Just snap… It’s easier with HyperLynx!