Are your complex memory networks being designed without full knowledge of what’s going on inside of those large BGAs? Do you know what’s going on inside of your BGA devices, but do not have sufficient functionality in your ECAD software to address advance timing skews? The latest controller techniques for DDR3 include read and write [...]
Once in while you come across a feature or application that you find a new use for when you least expect it. Recently, I was working on a project with an electronic design group and we decided to start the 3D modeling of the complete assembly to start some joint analysis with the mechanical engineering [...]
This may seem a strange question for someone who’s made their living out of signal integrity for so long, but things have changed. There was a period in the 80s and 90s that I call the SI Deficit: the period when signal integrity issues took engineers by surprise and my specialty was even called “Black Magic”. The design landscape has changed radically since then – the main reason for this being standardization…
It has become a time-honored tradition for me to do the CR-5000 Tips and Tricks session at Z-DAC each year. The baton was passed to me to become the head master for this session back in 2007. I guess that was the year that “The Secret” was revealed and everyone discovered just how much of [...]
The E3.saberframeway add-on module, that interfaces between Synopsys’s Saber software and Zuken’s E³.series electrical design environment, means that you can carry out functional checks on your wiring and fluid designs and optimize your existing circuits. But there is also a group of people who use this for scatter analysis. With high volume and mass produced products there is a certain degree of scatter in quality. To avoid system failures it is important to carry-out worst-case simulation.
I’m back once more to share with you my final blog post on DAMA – Design Anywhere, Manufacture Anywhere – and its impact on Electronics design. This time I want to talk to you more about the realities of implementing this approach starting with the initial audit process and understanding the real payback. Creating a [...]
This week in my series of posts looking at the topic of DAMA I’m going to focus on enterprise information structures, then challenges at the engineering and manufacturing level. Don’t forget to read up on part 1 and part 2…
After introducing the concept of Design Anywhere, Manufacture Anywhere, (DAMA) within the context of PLM last week, today I want to focus on other factors such as mergers and acquisitions, information sharing and component obsolescence.
DAMA, Design Anywhere Manufacture Anyway is one of those buzz words/phrases that can mean so much – but really what’s behind this grand name? And more to the point what implications does it have on the electrical design process?
It’s funny how well some engineering tasks get automated while others simply don’t. There are a number of packages out there to help you design your PCB, simulate how well it will work, and verify that it can be built. 3D mechanical design tools can help you design and model anything from a digital camera [...]
