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Please register today for this exclusive Webcast New Technology for Rapid and Accurate Simulation of Multi-Gigabit Serial Channels Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:00 am PT/2:00 pm ET Duration: 60 minutes (including Q&A) Sponsored by Ansoft Corp., hosted by EDN CLICK HERE TO REGISTER TODAY Modern electronic products use multi-Gigabit serial links to move large quantities of digital data across today’s telecommunication, high-definition video, gaming, and data storage systems. Engineers designing links such as 10-Gigabit Ethernet, 8.5 Gb/s Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, and PCI Express 3.0 demand accurate channel simulation and modeling to maintain stringent signal quality, jitter and bit error ratio (BER) performance. When verifying the low BER’s required by the multi-Gigabit protocols, traditional transient simulation techniques are at odds with the design cycle compression being driven by today’s tight time-to-market windows. There simply isn’t enough time to push the number of bits needed with robust sampling to derive meaningful BER results. Statistical methods are emerging that allow engineers to rapidly predict channel level performance with eye diagram plots and BER curves. This one-hour Web seminar introduces two new simulation technologies, a fast transient and a statistical tool, that are now included in Ansoft’s circuit simulation engine, Nexxim. The fast transient tool uses long, user defined bit patterns to produce an eye diagram. This analysis allows engineers to create controlled stress tests and to identify specific bit sequences that cause bit errors. The statistical tool produces both eye diagram plots and BER curves for complete high-speed channels in minutes. Because these technologies link to full-wave electromagnetic field solvers and a high capacity circuit simulation engine, accuracy is not sacrificed for the improved simulation speed. After a brief introduction to the tools and the presentation of comparative performance data, two channel examples will be demonstrated. The first channel will serve to highlight the general capabilities of the simulation technologies. The second will demonstrate the use of the tool in the pre-layout design of a serialized/de-serialized (SerDes) channel with equalization developed for IBM’s next generation BladeServer backplane.   Presenter Eldon Staggs, Senior Applications Engineer, Ansoft Corporation Eldon specializes in high-frequency and high-speed circuit and system design. He works with Ansoft’s top tier customers on their serial interconnect designs, RF microwave circuits, and wireless communication systems. He has over 15 years design experience and is an expert in system, RF, analog, and digital engineering for electronic warfare and electronic intelligence systems. He earned his BSEE from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM, and his MSEE from the University of California at San Diego. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER TODAY