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Mentor’s Hands-on Workshop on Virtual Prototype with HyperLynx
January 11, 2019 | Mentor, a Siemens businessEstimated reading time: 1 minute
Mentor, a Siemens business, has announced an upcoming workshop on "Virtual Prototype with HyperLynx" on January 18, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. IST, Bangalore India.
Do you want to create competitive advantage across your enterprise? Attend this 1-day HyperLynx free workshop to understand how.
Ask any signal integrity expert, what keeps you awake at night? Most will agree that it’s the question of being 100% certain that their design will work in real life.
With the increased complexity and high-speed performance of today's integrated circuits (ICs), a growing number of PCBs suffer from signal degradation and timing problems which are exacerbated by power delivery issues; this impacts board performance and possibly total failed logic, requiring costly redesign.
HyperLynx offers a complete suite of design analysis and verification software that meets the needs of PCB engineers at any point in the board design flow, addresses high-speed systems design problems throughout the design flow— starting at the earliest architectural stages through post-layout verification. Easy to use and integrate into your flow, HyperLynx equips hardware design engineers and PCB designers to efficiently analyze, identify, resolve, and verify critical design issues, which prevents costly re-spins, reduces design cycle times, and improves product reliability. Achieve greater innovation, faster time-to-market, and decreased costs with HyperLynx.
Visit I-007eBooks to download your copies of Mentor’s books today:
The Printed Circuit Designer’s Guide to… Signal Integrity and Power Integrity by Example.
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