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Chip-Package-System Noise Integrity
Aveek Sarkar, Vice President of Product Engineering and Customer Support, Apache Design Solutions
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Chip, package and board designs cannot happen in isolation given performance and cost considerations. An analysis and verification methodology that targets power delivery and signal integrity in a co-design framework is required to ensure that the system performance specifications are met at the lowest design and material costs. For example, for power delivery network design, an analysis environment that accurately models the chip, package and board and allows for multiple analyses (DC, AC and transient) concurrently is required. Similarly, for signal integrity especially for high speed IO interfaces, the simultaneous consideration of the IO ring design, IO and decoupling capacitor cell placement, input switching pattern, and package/board power and signal layouts is necessary.
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