PowerSI Getting Started Guide
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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
How Do You Use PowerSI? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Additional Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Conventions Used in This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
How to Contact Technical Support? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Editing Package. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Create a New Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Working With Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Activating a Layer and Viewing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Adding a Via . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Drawing Traces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Drawing Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Drawing Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Using Select, View, Delete, Undo, and Redo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Connecting Traces and Merging Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Close a Current Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Connecting Circuits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Link
ing Circuits to the Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Delete a Linkage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Moving Circuit Components to Different Layers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Specifying Simulation Mode Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Specifying Observation Variables for Spatial Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Specify
ing Circuit Voltage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Specify
ing Layout Voltage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Specifying Current . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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pecifying Voltage Distribution Between Metal Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Specifying Ports for Extraction Mode
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Creating Ports
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Map
ping Port Terminals to Package Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Contents
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Run Simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Establish Simulation Frequency Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Checking For Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Checking for Warnings and Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Using the Simulation Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Special Voids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Interplane Coupling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Enhanced Via Pad and Antipad Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Sigrity Smart Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Launch the Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
View the Simulation Results and Post Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Simulation Results in Extraction Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Simulation Results in Spatial Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Spatial Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
PowerSI Hot Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Hot Keys in SPDGEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
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Introduction
Welcome to the PowerSI Getting Started Guide. This document is designed to give you a
brief introduction to the PowerSI application, and to get you started quickly. The PowerSI
Getting Started Guide provides quick step-by-step instructions on some of the basic
procedures of PowerSI.
System Requirements
Refer to the Installation Guide to check the system requirements.
How Do You Use PowerSI?
There are various simulation modes in PowerSI:
■ Model Extraction
■ Noise Coupling Analysis
■ EMC/EMI simulation (Radiation)
■ Resonance Analysis
■ 3DFEM Full-Wave Extraction
■ 3DFEM Full-Wave Spatial
■ 3D-EM Full-Wave IC
■ Trace Impedance/Coupling Checking
■ Hybrid work flow
■ 3D-EM Capacitance Extraction
■ 3D-EM Inductance Extraction
■ VR Noise Metrics Check
■ S-Parameter Assessment
