Do Your Designs Require Simulation and Analysis?

Do Your Designs Require Simulation and Analysis?

Are you doing any simulation today, specifically for signal integrity issues?  Many design professionals believe that simulaiton is only needed…

PADS Tips and Tricks: Printing a Color Image of a Decal

PADS Tips and Tricks: Printing a Color Image of a Decal

Have you ever wanted to, or had the requirement to print a color image of a Decal?  This can be…

PADS Tips and Tricks: Creating Split Planes and Manipulating Thermal and Antipads

PADS Tips and Tricks: Creating Split Planes and Manipulating Thermal and Antipads

Today’s Tip and Trick comes from Bill Tkachuk in customer support. PADS Layout has very powerful split plane functionality.  Along…

Developing Confidence in Your Analysis Tool – HyperLynx 9.0 Demonstration

Developing Confidence in Your Analysis Tool – HyperLynx 9.0 Demonstration

Last week at DesignCon 2013, I provided an Analysis Anchored to Reality presentation of the highlighting and validating the new…

Introducing HyperLynx 9.0: Fastest time to accurate results

Introducing HyperLynx 9.0: Fastest time to accurate results

Over the past 16 years I’ve had the pleasure of being part of the development of HyperLynx and am excited…

DxDesigner With PADS Layout

DxDesigner With PADS Layout

I’ve spoken with several customers recently who have, or are in the process of transitioning from PADS Logic to the…

PADS Tips and Tricks – Assigning a Shortcut Key to a Macro

PADS Tips and Tricks – Assigning a Shortcut Key to a Macro

Have you written a macro and want to execute it quickly and easily with a custom defined shortcut key?  That’s…

How much stitching do I need?

How much stitching do I need?

If signal integrity engineers had the power to make their jobs as easy as possible, every signal in an electronic…

Pick a layer and stick with it

Pick a layer and stick with it

One of the nice things about newer, faster busses like DDR3 and DDR4 is on-die termination.  They are nice because…