{"id":1625,"date":"2016-09-29T14:45:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T21:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/hyperblog\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:26:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:26:34","slug":"decoupling-analysis-for-trace-routed-pdns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/2016\/09\/29\/decoupling-analysis-for-trace-routed-pdns\/","title":{"rendered":"Decoupling Analysis for Trace-Routed PDNs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Performing\u00a0an accurate high-frequency analysis of a power distribution network routed with traces instead of planes poses some interesting challenges.\u00a0 Most notably, the analysis engine has to be flexible enough to model complicated coupling between power and ground.\u00a0 The typical assumptions made by a planar solver are no longer valid, and more sophisticated modeling must be used.\u00a0 In HyperLynx, we have addressed this challenge by integrating our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentor.com\/pcb\/hyperlynx\/full-wave-solver\/?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full-Wave Solver<\/a> technology into decoupling analysis.\u00a0 In the new Advanced Decoupling Wizard, you can analyze any PDN structure.\u00a0 See it in action in <a href=\"http:\/\/go.mentor.com\/4ORMz?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this video<\/a>.\u00a0 This includes analyzing trace-routed PDNs, PDNs with series components like ferrites, inductors, or other kinds of filters, or any other kind of PDN you might have on your PCB.\u00a0 While the existing Decoupling Wizard is unmatched in performance and capacity for analyzing a &#8220;traditional&#8221; PDN, the <a href=\"http:\/\/go.mentor.com\/4ORMz?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advanced Decoupling Wizard<\/a> has the flexibility and power to analyze any PDN structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performing\u00a0an accurate high-frequency analysis of a power distribution network routed with traces instead of planes poses some interesting challenges.\u00a0 Most&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71672,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71672"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10549,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions\/10549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}