Introducing EP-Scan 2024
The ultimate companion for PCB design teams
Signal integrity is the backbone of successful PCB designs. EP-Scan offers a user-friendly interface that streamlines your PCB design journey. With EP-Scan, you can:
- Adjust stack up properties: Understand the impact of substrate stack-up properties on performance
- Check against specifications: Apply specifications on impedance, return loss, and insertion loss to see a pass/fail evaluation
- Identify layout issues: Spot potential concerns like via stubs and return path discontinuities
- Create analysis report: Generate a report with simulation results and pass/fail status with one click
- Simplify design version simulation: Streamline simulation on revisions by eliminating setup time with the test plan feature.
Will your DDR Trace Impedance Pass the Specification?
This demo uses EP-Scan to import the ODB++ (design for manufacturing format) and examine the DDR impedance values of an open-source board. After importing the ODB++ layout and configuring the substrate stack-up, it takes only 3 steps to verify whether the impedance of the nets passes the specification. The steps are:
- Select the nets
- Assign the nets and the 50-Ohm specification to a test plan
- Run the test plan
After the simulation is done, a simulation report is just one click away.
Highlights
PathWave EP-Scan 2024 includes the following new features and major enhancements:
- Improved visualization: See your board layout and nets in a 2D viewer
- Eye diagram generation: Provide a straightforward view of your signal integrity
- Components included in the simulation: Configure and analyze the nets connected by components
