DesignerSI™ provides an integrated schematic and design management front-end for signal-integrity analysis and system verification of high-performance IC/Package/Board designs. DesignerSI is the gateway to best-in-class simulation technologies, Nexxim™, HFSS™, Q3D Extractor®, and SIwave™. Using Solver on Demand™, DesignerSI enables dynamic circuit/EM co-simulation in time- and frequency-domain to accurately predict the behavior of high-speed systems including gigabit computers and communication backplanes.

New in DesignerSI v3.5

• Design Validation
  • Excitations from Circuit & Nexxim simulations now included in HFSS and planarEM co-simulations
    • Allows EM-based current densities and field values to include phase and amplitude information from circuit sources and design.
    • EM sub-circuits true field values can been visualized and radiation patterns can be calculated
  • Optional common reference node for dynamic link objects
  • Additional DRC commands including: overlap, overhang, enclose, notch
  • Planar EM simulation enhancements
    • Enhanced SOD calibration for planarEM elements
    • Calibration for CPW elements in planarEM
    • FSS mesh continuity
    • Methods to export near fields & currents
    • Enhanced port solver accuracy
• Design Capture
  • Layout
    • DXF import - support for different x & y scales for imported blocks
    • 3D view of linked HFSS and Q3D projects in Designer's 3D viewer
    • Enhanced speed
    • Object selection (picking) from 3D viewer
  • Schematic
    • Schematic wiring help w/icons
    • Wire routing enhancements
    • Support for other types of graphics (logo's, bitmaps, etc.) in schematic
    • ANSI borders
• GUI & Design Automation
  • Circuit translation from Designer to Nexxim schematics
  • Output variables from dynamic link objects visible in Designer