PCB Engineering & Design Capabilities:
- High Speed Digital design
- Mix signal design
- RF design
- Control Impedance +/-5%
- Minimum Crosstalk
- Multiple impedance transmission line; minimizing effect of load capacitance
- Minimum skew b/w signals.
- Special routing techniques for high speed transmission lines
Techniques & Tools to address:
- Electrical Analysis of Vias, Pads and Traces
- Reflection noise (ringing)
- Impedance mismatch, stubs, vias, bends and other interconnect discontinuities
- Electromagnetic coupling between adjacent signal lines
- Ground and power voltage bounces (Delta-I noise)
- Switching currents, especially a large number of drivers switch simultaneously
- Resonance inside IC packages and PCBs, and EM radiation
- Interaction between the signal and power distribution systems
PCB Engineering Software:
- LINESIM (Use for calculating termination values & impedance)
- POLAR CITS25 (Use for Simulating following configurations)
- Differential Impedance
- Coplanar Stripline
- Microstrip
- CALIF (Use for calculating impedance, capacitance, inductance, resistance & time delay)
- XTALK (Use for calculating cross talk)
- ALTRA (Complete transmission line simulation)
PCB Design Software:
- Allegro PCB
- Concept HDL
- PCad PCB 2002
- PCad Schematic capture
- OrCad Schematic 9.2.1
- AutoCAD 2000
- Spectra Auto Router
- Library Executive
- Component Interplace
- Camtastic 2002
- Lavenir
Tester Database:
- Agilent
- Checksum
- Credence
- IMS
- LTX
- Mosaid
- Schlumberger
- Teradyne