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“I work on advanced technology designs ...Materials play a key role. The loss modeling helps us quickly determine what level of material performance we need and sometimes we can make lower cost materials work just by changing the stackups in the early design concept.
We follow up with detailed SI modeling, but Z-solver enables us to quickly get to what we need for materials/stackup.”
- Principal Engineer, Advanced Technology, Leading Wireless Base Station Manufacturer
How Z-solver™ is Used
There are a lot of factors to juggle to stay on top of the parameters that contribute to loss, including frequency, copper weight, resin system, glass characteristics, dielectric thickness, trace width, copper roughness, and fabricator processing all contribute to the discussion.
Co-planar waveguide
Stripline view
It’s common in high-speed PCB design to build test boards with defined geometries across multiple laminate vendors, materials, and fabricators, but the process of doing so takes about six months from concept to completion.
In today’s design environment, who can wait that long for concrete answers?
Z-solver allows designers to make tradeoffs early in the system-design process, including frequency, interconnect loss budgets, and the knobs that designers control, including resin system, cost, copper roughness, and trace length.
Z-solver provides the most reasonably priced path to making tradeoffs between Dk, Df, trace topologies, and spacing. It includes a constant differential impedance (Zdiff) curve (Width vs. Spacing) for selection of differential routing strategies. Results include impedance, differential impedance, propagation delay, and loss vs. frequency.
Key Benefits of Z-solver™
- Simulate insertion loss, total channel loss, and a detailed breakdown of dielectric and conductor loss, skin effect and copper roughness, including Cannonball-Huray
- S-parameter channel-model export
- Solder mask and dual-ply prepreg modeling
- Detailed modeling of etch effects
- HyperLynx field solver
- Detailed cross-section analysis of microstrips, buried microstrips, co-planar waveguides, and striplines
- Single-ended and differential impedance
- Automated impedance goal seeking
- Propagation speed and total-delay simulation
Annual Support Licenses
- With an active support maintenance contract you will be entitled to technical support, updates and protection in the event you need to re-host. Annual support for floating and WAN licenses provides support and software maintenance for up to five (5) users. Additional support licenses may be purchased for additional users, and support is renewable on an annual basis.
- Annual support for floating and WAN licenses provides support and software maintenance for up to five (5) users.
- Additional support licenses may be purchased for additional users, and support is renewable on an annual basis.
Issuing of Software License Files
- License activation files are issued annually, and are automatically reissued when your Support agreement is renewed.
- If annual support has lapsed, your license file is available upon request.
- For further information, please refer to the product’s EULA in combination with your quotation and purchase order.
Node-Locked Software Licenses
- Provides access to one user on one PC; this license grant is activated with a license file which is locked to the PC’s MAC address.
Floating Software Licenses
- A floating license suits organizations with multiple users who need periodic use of a license across the group.
- A floating license may be floated to the entity’s subsidiary and group companies within the country in which it is licensed.
- Floating licenses are served from a license server which is typically (though not always) separate from the client software installation.
- The license server is licensed to the MAC address of the server itself.
Global WAN Software Licenses
- Each enterprise global WAN seat will serve unlimited global wide area network PCs, one PC at a time, where the license server is connected through a secure wide area network connection.
- Usage is limited to the employees of the licensing entity and its subsidiaries.
- This license does not permit sharing over the public internet.
