Signal Integrity Analysis for RF System-in-Package

Author(s):  
Jeff Chen ◽  
Weiping Li ◽  
Feng Ling

RF System-in-Package (SiP) has become a viable packaging platform, which offers great flexibility to integrate ICs with different processes and different architects. With operating frequency becoming higher and multiple available technologies embedded in one package, the system could fail due to the undesired noise coupling resulted from the close proximity of the components. Therefore, the design methodology with signal integrity (SI), power integrity (PI), and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) analysis becomes essential to tackle the SiP integration issues. The paper presents a RF SiP design methodology with SI/PI/EMC simulations, which greatly reduces the design time and enables first-pass success.

Author(s):  
Md. Ruhul Quddus ◽  
Sanjiv Soman

Even though it has always been known that Signal Integrity analysis and Power Integrity (Power Delivery) analysis are related, historically they have been treated and analyzed independently with some timing and voltage buckets used to tie the effects of one on the other. When the voltage and timing margins were large, this approach worked quite well. However as voltage levels, timing windows and their margins have shrunk, the traditional method of analyzing them independently no longer suffices. The signal quality and timing (eye height & eye width) losses due to the effects of power delivery are no longer negligible. The concept of signal integrity & power delivery co-simulation (referred to as SIPD or SIPI co-sim) is a methodology developed to address this problem. In this paper we will use the DDR bus as an example to illustrate the impacts of power delivery on the signal and highlight how badly the margin loss would have been underestimated if the effects of power delivery were ignored. The paper will demonstrate how SIPD co-sim can quantify or illustrate - the effects of data randomization, margin gain with fully random data patterns, margin loss due to the effects of Burst-Idle-Burst data patterns, definition of noise & eye diagram BER, statistically significant noise in system, etc.


2014 ◽  
Vol 657 ◽  
pp. 121-125
Author(s):  
Daniel Măgurian ◽  
Gheorghe Oancea

This paper presents a design methodology of laminating tools for automotive interior parts using CATIA software package. The authors developed a software tool namedLTFrameDesignusingVBA for Applicationunder CATIA package, which automatically generates the main frame of the laminating tool according to the parts shapes, its dimensions and designer requirements. The software automates some stages of standard design and minimizes the design time and costs. The paper also presents the design stages which are followed by the user to obtain a 3D complete assembly of the laminating tool.


2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 611-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Matoglu ◽  
N. Pham ◽  
D.N. deAraujo ◽  
M. Cases ◽  
M. Swaminathan

Author(s):  
Abhijit Dharchoudhury ◽  
David Blaauw ◽  
Shantanu Ganguly

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