Ansoft Announces DesignerSI - Powered by Nexxim, HFSS and Q3D Extractor, DesignerSI Expands the Ansoft Designer Platform to High-Performance Signal Integrity.Business Editors PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2004 Ansoft Corporation (Nasdaq:ANST ANST Association of Neuropsychology Students in Training ANST After Negative Skin Test ) announces DesignerSI(TM), a powerful design environment that combines with Nexxim(TM), HFSS HFSS High Frequency Structure Simulator HFSS High Fat, Salt and Sugar (food content) HFSS High-Frequency Sounder System HFSS High Frequency Simulator System HFSS High Frequency Sensor Subsystem (TM) and Q3D Q3D Quasi-Three-Dimensional Q3D Quickdraw Three Dimensional Q3D Qsound Three Dimensional Extractor(TM), to deliver the most complete system-level signal-integrity (SI) solution for IC/package/board co-design and verification. DesignerSI accurately predicts the performance of high-speed systems commonly found in optical networks, gigabit computers and communication backplanes. "Molex customers demand fully characterized high-performance connectors, cables and backplanes," said Gus Panella, Advanced Development Engineering Manager at Molex. "The integration of DesignerSI, Nexxim, HFSS and Q3D Extractor streamlines the interconnect design and analysis process. This enables us to focus on product design, rather than on tool integration, and ultimately deliver maximum value to our customers." Ansoft Designer revenue growth exceeded 70 percent this past year, fueled by Ansoft's strategy to combine design capture, parametric analysis, optimization, tuning and Solver on Demand(TM) for RF/mixed-signal design. DesignerSI expands this market-proven design methodology to high-performance signal-integrity applications. DesignerSI allows signal-integrity engineers to evaluate and optimize design performance and reduce overall design cycle time and costs. By combining Ansoft's best-in-class circuit simulation product, Nexxim, with fast dynamic links to HFSS and Q3D Extractor, DesignerSI provides a powerful environment for performing system-level analyses while making simulation details transparent at the component level. DesignerSI includes a design capture interface (via schematic or netlist), optimization and tuning, post-processing and system-level simulation for key signal-integrity metrics including TDR TDR - time domain reflectometer (time-domain reflectometry Time-domain reflectometry or TDR is a measurement technique used to determine the characteristics of electrical lines by observing reflected waveforms. Time-domain transmissometry (TDT ), BER (1) (Basic Encoding Rules) A set of encoding rules for ASN.1 notation, which is a method for defining data structures. See ASN.1. (2) (Bit Error Rate) The average number of bits transmitted in error. See BERT. 1. (bit error rate) and eye diagrams. DesignerSI New Features: -- Design environment with project manager, component libraries, message manager -- Full schematic editor Schematic editor is a tool for schematic capture of electronic circuits. Schematic editors replaced manual drawing of schematic diagrams, but they still retain the capability of outputting schematics on specially formatted sheets. -- Frequency- and time-domain system simulator -- Optimetrics (optimization, tuning and swept parametric analysis) -- Component library of behavioral and electrical models -- Co-simulation with Nexxim circuit simulator -- Dynamic parameterized links to HFSS, Ansoft's full-wave 3D EM simulator, and Q3D Extractor, Ansoft's 3D quasi-static simulator -- IBIS model support -- SPICE netlist import wizard -- HSpice(R) compatibility -- W-element and S-parameter support To learn more about DesignerSI, please visit www.ansoft.com/products/si/designersi/. Availability: DesignerSI will begin commercial shipments in the second quarter of calendar year 2004. The product will first ship on PCs running Windows(R) 2000 and XP, followed by Sun Solaris(R) and Linux(R). Editors: To download a DesignerSI image, please visit ftp://ftp.ansoft.com/techsup/download/web/primg/dsi_flow.jpg. About Ansoft Ansoft is a leading developer of high-performance electronic design automation (EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. ) software. Engineers use Ansoft software to design state-of-the-art electronic products, such as cellular phones, Internet-access devices, broadband networking components and systems, integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. (ICs), printed circuit boards (PCBs), automotive electronic systems and power electronics. Ansoft markets its products worldwide through its own direct sales force and has comprehensive customer-support and training offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Asia and Europe. To learn more, please visit www.ansoft.com. |
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