Tips & Tricks

Useful tech tips and tricks you should know.

  • Sigrity Tech Tip: How to Simulate the Impact of ESD and Determine How Many TVS Diodes are Necessary

    Sigrity Tech Tip: How to Simulate the Impact of ESD and Determine How Many TVS Diodes are Necessary

    Sigrity technologists guide you step by step on how to apply an ESD gun model to simulate an ESD event on a printed circuit board.

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  • Sigrity Tech Tip: How to Import Optimized 3D Structures Into Your Design Tool After 3D EM Analysis

    Sigrity Tech Tip: How to Import Optimized 3D Structures Into Your Design Tool After 3D EM Analysis

    Learn how complex structures such as via arrays can be designed, optimized and updated in an integrated Allegro-Sigrity design methodology without redrawing via structures.

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  • Sigrity Tech Tip: How PCB Design Teams Can Perform IR Drop Analysis Early and Often

    Sigrity Tech Tip: How PCB Design Teams Can Perform IR Drop Analysis Early and Often

    Sigrity technologists guide you step by step on how to automatically set-up PDN simulation from schematics, collect and verify components models, and perform analysis as early as possible. Your...

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  • Sigrity Tech Tip: How to Accelerate Accurate 3D Full Wave Extraction Time

    Sigrity Tech Tip: How to Accelerate Accurate 3D Full Wave Extraction Time

    Sigrity technologist Brad Brim guides you step by step on how to perform full-wave 3D extraction on the right slice of a PCB or IC Package design.

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  • Sigrity Tech Tip: How to Accurately Model a Multi-Gigabit Serial Link 10 Times Faster

    Sigrity Tech Tip: How to Accurately Model a Multi-Gigabit Serial Link 10 Times Faster

    Sigrity technologists guide you step by step on how to model serial link interfaces using a cut-and-stitch methodology. The methodology enables creation of 3D full-wave accurate s-parameter models...

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  • Sigrity Tech Tip: How to Build an IBIS AMI Model

    Sigrity Tech Tip: How to Build an IBIS AMI Model

    Sigrity technologists guide you step by step on how to build an IBIS-AMI model without having to write any code.

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  • Sigrity Tech Tip: How PCB Designers Can Create Initial PDN Constraints Without Becoming a PI Expert

    Sigrity Tech Tip: How PCB Designers Can Create Initial PDN Constraints Without Becoming a PI Expert

    Allegro Sigrity PI Base and the PI Signoff and Optimization option from Cadence are demonstrated.

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  • Empower your Design Process with Allegro PowerTree and Electrostatic Discharge Workflows

    Empower your Design Process with Allegro PowerTree and Electrostatic Discharge Workflows

    With a growing emphasis on speed and efficiency in the PCB design process, Cadence® has been actively updating their software tools to provide PCB designers like yourself the latest design...

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  • Sigrity Tech Tips: How to Share Power Delivery Network Design Analysis across the PCB Design Team

    Sigrity Tech Tips: How to Share Power Delivery Network Design Analysis across the PCB Design Team

    Learn how PCB design teams can optimize the power delivery network design earlier in the design cycle.

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  • 5 Tips for Building Secure PC Boards

    5 Tips for Building Secure PC Boards

    Before we begin it is important to note nothing is ever 100% secure. A device that is secure one day can easily become vulnerable the next day. That being said, increasing security measures in...

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  • Sigrity Tech Tip: How to Test Modules for Automotive Ethernet Compliance Before Building a Prototype

    Sigrity Tech Tip: How to Test Modules for Automotive Ethernet Compliance Before Building a Prototype

    Learn more about the Allegro Sigrity SI Base and the System Serial Link Analysis Option from Cadence.

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  • Sigrity Tech Tip: How to Accelerate Accurate 3D Full Wave Extraction Time

    Sigrity Tech Tip: How to Accelerate Accurate 3D Full Wave Extraction Time

    Allegro Sigrity SI Base (http://goo.gl/L1k5GX) and the System Serial Link Analysis Option (http://goo.gl/L03MLd) from Cadence are demonstrated.

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  • Sigrity Tech Tip: How DDR interfaces can be accurately analyzed pain-free (without large S-parms)

    Sigrity Tech Tip: How DDR interfaces can be accurately analyzed pain-free (without large S-parms)

    Sigrity technologists guide you step by step on how to use the Sigrity Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) simulator to accurately predict the impact of simultaneous switching noise (SSN) in a...

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  • Sigrity Tech Tip: How to Build Accurate Leadframe Package Models Quickly and Easily

    Sigrity Tech Tip: How to Build Accurate Leadframe Package Models Quickly and Easily

    Sigrity technologists guide you step by step on how to setup a leadframe package design for accurate extraction using the 3D quasi-static solver engine. Accurate RLC extraction is performed on a...

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  • Sigrity Tech Tips: Why the Best PCB Designers use Power-Aware Rule Checks

    Sigrity Tech Tips: Why the Best PCB Designers use Power-Aware Rule Checks

    Allegro Sigrity SI Base and Power-Aware SI Option from Cadence are demonstrated. Sigrity technologists guide you step by step on how to utilize power-aware electric rule checks to confidently fast...

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  • PSpice Advanced Tips & Tricks

    PSpice Advanced Tips & Tricks

    EMA will show you useful tips and tricks for Cadence PSpice® A/D and why it is the #1 analog simulator in the market today. We will highlight features that will help you achieve fast and accurate...

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  • Sigrity Tech Tip How IC Package Designers Can Find and Fix Electrical Problems

    Sigrity Tech Tip How IC Package Designers Can Find and Fix Electrical Problems

    Allegro® Package Designer and Sigrity™ XtractIM™ technology from Cadence are demonstrated. Sigrity technologists guide you step by step on how IC Package Designers can conveniently identify...

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  • Sigrity Tech Tip How to Find Signal Integrity Problems on an Unrouted PCB

    Sigrity Tech Tip How to Find Signal Integrity Problems on an Unrouted PCB

    Learn about Allegro Sigrity SI Base and the new flow planning feature for route planning with signal integrity analysis through a brief demonstration. Sigrity technologists guide you discover many...

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  • Sigrity Tech Tip How to Accurately Model a Multi-Gigabit Serial Link 10 Times Faster

    Sigrity Tech Tip How to Accurately Model a Multi-Gigabit Serial Link 10 Times Faster

    Learn about Allegro Sigrity SI Base and the System Serial Link Analysis Option through a demonstration. Sigrity technologists guide you step by step on how to model serial link interfaces using a...

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  • Sigrity Tech Tip How to Verify a PAM Encoded Multi-Gigabit Serial Link

    Sigrity Tech Tip How to Verify a PAM Encoded Multi-Gigabit Serial Link

    Allegro Sigrity SI Base and the System Serial Link Analysis Option from Cadence are demonstrated. Sigrity technologists guide you step by step on the methodology of verifying PAM-3 and PAM-4...

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