NEC Corporation is one of the world's leading electronic manufacturers offering IT/network and semiconductor solutions. NEC also develops software tools based on real world experience of its engineers that are also currently being used to design various NEC products. NEC will showcase EMIStream, a PCB level EMI suppression tool with Design Rule Check and Power Plane Resonance Analysis, PIStream, a power integrity design tool, and CyberWorkBench, a C-based IC design platform.

Technologies on Display:

EMIStream
Product Category: PCB Design Tools and Technologies

EMIStream is an EMI suppression support tool developed by NEC that can decrease undesirable EMI generated from PCB at an early design stage.

EMI Design Rule Check scans your board against 13 rules and lists errors in order of priority allowing time efficient noise countermeasures. Key design rules such as Estimated Radiation, Reference Change, and Return Current Path Discontinuity are included. Power Plane Resonance Analysis shows you the "hot spots" on the board enabling optimized capacitor placement to reduce resonance.

Major electronic manufacturers worldwide are using EMIStream to significantly decrease time and cost spent on the design/evaluation process. Many choose to use EMIStream for its user-friendly interface, easy 4-step setup, speedy analysis and seamless workflow with multiple CAD layout interfaces.

PIStream
Product Category: PCB Design Tools

PIStream is a power integrity design tool for PCB that will help meet your target impedance and reduce transfer impedance.

With the development of new electronic products that demand increased power performance, current consumption increases while operational voltage for ICs decrease, resulting in power integrity issues. PCBs with poor power integrity can cause IC operational failure. However, excessive countermeasures such as adding components continue to escalate costs.

The solution: use PIStream to achieve target impedance by adding/moving capacitors, plane shapes, and Power/GND plane distances. Transfer Impedance Analysis function helps reduce noise propagation between aggressor IC and victim IC. Graphic-based PIStream is easy to use and offers speedy analysis. Get PIStream to improve power integrity and save time & money.

CyberWorkBench
Product Category: IC Design Tools

NEC is proud to announce the worldwide release of CyberWorkBench (CWB), a C-based chip design platform based on an "All-in-C" concept where the complete system IC design from architectural exploration, design and verification is done entirely in C.

CWB is the result of more than 20 years of in-house research in C-based behavioral synthesis at NEC and has produced numerous successful products. It is a complete design platform composed of a suite of tools such as behavioral synthesis, bus interface generator, hierarchical module generator and simulation model creator. Its behavioral synthesis engine supports both control and algorithmic dominant circuits. CWB is suitable for a wide range of applications: image processing, networking, filters, and control-logic modules.