Overview

Title: Power Integrity: Analyze Impedance to Improve Power Delivery, SI & EMI

Available on demand

Duration: 1 hour

Summary

Join DesignCon in this webinar series presented by expert engineers from the electronics chip, board, and system industries. The sessions will walk through use cases, propose various tools for solving a range of design problems, and expand your understanding of key engineering principles.

Power Integrity: Analyze Impedance to Improve Power Delivery, SI & EMI

Power Integrity is all about delivering the appropriate power to maintain the Signal Integrity of dynamic loads. All with power delivery design margins that allow for reliable product performance. The key challenge for the PI engineer is that the dynamic load can operate from DC to GHz resulting in extreme bandwidths of power delivery and the potential for EMI. Target Impedance vs. frequency is a great tool for designing for power delivery over the full bandwidth of the dynamic load, but designers often fail to use its full benefit. This webinar will cover the basics of target impedance, and then go beyond to show the benefits of advanced impedance analysis techniques for power delivery.

When you watch this webinar, you will:

  • Learn how to reverse engineer target impedance to generate requirements for the VRM’s active inductance and the load’s package/die capacitance;
  • Watch how flat impedance design improves design margins over component tolerances and avoids the disaster of a rogue voltage wave arriving at the load;
  • Explore advanced PI ecosystem time domain simulations with EM PCB models to understand Power Supply Rejection Ratio (PSRR) and the potential sources for conducted EMI.

Speakers:

Heidi Barnes

Heidi Barnes
SI and PI Applications Engineer
Keysight Technologies

Heidi Barnes is a Senior Application Engineer and Power Integrity Product Owner for High Speed Digital applications in the Design Engineering Software Group of Keysight Technologies. Her recent activities include the application of electromagnetic, transient, and channel simulators to solve signal and power integrity challenges. Author of more than 20 papers on SI and PI, active member in developing the new IEEE P370 Standard involving interconnect S-parameter quality after fixture removal, and recipient of the DesignCon 2017 Engineer of the Year, Heidi graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 1986 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.

Steve Sandler

Steve Sandler
Managing Director
Picotest

Steve Sandler has been involved with power system engineering for more than 40 years. Steve is the founder of Picotest, a company specializing in power integrity solutions including measurement products, services and training. He frequently lectures and leads workshops internationally on the topics of power, PDN, and distributed systems, and is a Keysight certified expert for EDA software. Steve frequently writes articles and books related to power supply and PDN performance with his latest book, “Power Integrity Using ADS,” published by Faraday Press in 2019. Steve founded AEi Systems, a well-established leader in worst case circuit analysis and troubleshooting of high reliability systems.