In recent years, electrification and the dramatic increase of electrical systems inside transportation vehicles has revolutionized the industry. Modern vehicles routinely contain advanced electronics including sophisticated onboard computers, high-speed communication buses, video and display systems, sensors, and more. As vehicle functionality and complexity increase, the challenges in designing these systems are multi-fold: To meet demanding deadlines and time-to-market requirements, electrical hardware designers and layout engineers are being pushed to provide reliable designs faster, at lower cost, and with less resources.
To fulfill these requirements, designers and engineers are increasingly turning to simulation to provide valuable insight into their designs from a signal integrity and power integrity perspective. On the signal integrity domain, designers can evaluate important metrics such as trace impedances, crosstalk, channel characteristics, and loss. On the power domain, useful information such as voltage drop, current density, power loss, and decoupling capacitor placement can be determined. These electromagnetic simulations can be used to help identify issues, provide insight into the root cause, and virtually test variants and fixes at the component, PCB, and system level.
This 60-minute webinar will showcase how simulation can be used to improve signal and power integrity within vehicle electronics, focusing primarily on the PCB design. Additionally, since the design’s overall signal and power characteristics have a direct impact upon other important aspects, such as thermal, electromagnetic compatibility, and reliability, the webinar also will touch upon these adjacent areas where simulation can play a compelling role.
Key Topics:
- Signal integrity
- Power integrity
- Electrothermal
- Reliability
- Electromagnetic interference and electromagnetic compatibility
- De-sense
An audience Q&A session will follow the technical presentation.
Speaker:
Robert Towne, Manager Application Engineering, Ansys
Robert Towne is a Manager of Application Engineering at Ansys. With more than 12 years of simulation experience, his current work focuses on using computational electromagnetics to analyze and validate printed-circuit boards and other complex systems in the areas of signal integrity, power integrity, and electromagnetic interference. In addition to industry experience in high-tech, his work has spanned across multiple domains including automotive, industrial, and aerospace applications. Robert’s role within the high-frequency electromagnetics team has him supporting multiple toolsets including SIwave, HFSS/3D Layout, Circuit, and Q3D.
Moderator:
Amanda Hosey, Editor, SAE Media Group
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