Ansoft to Showcase Spicelink 5.0 at DAC - New Multi-PEEC Technology Extends Market Reach Into Fastest Edge-Rate Electronics.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers Design Automation Conference 2002 PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2002 Ansoft Corporation (Nasdaq:ANST ANST Association of Neuropsychology Students in Training ANST After Negative Skin Test ) will showcase Spicelink(TM) version 5.0 at the Design Automation Conference (DAC See D/A converter and discretionary access control. DAC - Digital to Analog Converter ) in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded , Louisiana, on June 10-14, at Booth 1742. Spicelink 5.0 is a true three-dimensional, signal-integrity, and parasitic extraction tool for the design of high-speed devices, such as 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), and IC packaging. Consisting of multiple electromagnetic solver engines, an easy-to-use drawing tool, and a built-in Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis (SPICE), Spicelink 5.0 provides engineers with a complete environment to extensively analyze their high-speed electronic designs. Unique to version 5.0 is the multi-PEEC (Partial Element Equivalent Circuit) technology for producing accurate, three-dimensional, distributed models for Gbyte data-rate designs. Combined with a multipole-acceleration method and a model order reduction algorithm, the extraction and simulation time of the resulting multi-PEEC subcircuit is optimized. Moreover, Spicelink can now utilize the power and fast memories of 64-bit UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) computing platforms, delivering a tenfold increase in the size and complexity of the structures the software can simulate. Spicelink implements key solver modules as 64-bit executables, increasing its accessible memory space to accommodate the large memories typical of high-end workstations. Spicelink 5.0 also features an I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output Buffer Information Specification (IBIS) driver. Customers can use the IBIS driver to run system simulations with Ansoft interconnect models to provide system-level, time-domain simulation information, such as delays, overshoot o·ver·shoot n. A change from steady state in response to a sudden change in some factor, as in electric potential or polarity when a cell or tissue is stimulated. , undershoot un·der·shoot n. A temporary decrease below the final steady-state value that may occur immediately following the removal of an influence that had been raising that value. , skews, crosstalk, and reflections. In addition to multi-PEEC technology, IBIS integration, and 64-bit architecture on Sun(R) and HP(R) machines, Spicelink 5.0 incorporates a significant number of user enhancements. To learn more about Spicelink, visit www.ansoft.com/products/si/spicelink.cfm. 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 (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, Asia, and Europe. For more information, please visit www.ansoft.com. Spicelink is a trademark of Ansoft Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Note to Editors: You can download a high-resolution screen shot at the following location: ftp://ftp.ansoft.com/techsup/download/web/acplane2.tif. Image Caption: "Current density plots modeled in Spicelink(TM)" |
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