Today’s increasingly dense and complex designs combined with tighter logic-level noise margins are increasingly susceptible to power distribution network (PDN) issues because they require very stable power delivery to reliably function. Left unchecked, PDN issues can result in failed EMI compliance certification, delayed product introduction and intermittent field failures. Rather than treating PDN issues as a post-prototype design consideration, we need a way to accurately identify and resolve all IR drops, current density issues, and voltage drops early and often throughout the board layout process. Power Analyzer by Keysight in Altium Designer makes it easy to resolve PDN issues that arise during the board design process within a unified design environment.

This month we have a Keysight power integrity specialist joining us to talk about how you, with no extensive training, can analyze and solve your board for power integrity issues quickly, and without expensive software.

We’ll go over:

• A brief Introduction of Power Analyzer
• How to analyze your layout for current density and voltage drops
• How to effectively use Power Analyzer as part of the integrated design process directly in the PCB editor
• Power distribution optimization based on Power Analyzer analysis results

Aida Gharahkhani

Technical Sales Engineer

Aida works as a sales application Engineer within Altium. She studied Bachelor of Electrical/Electronic Engineering and completed Master of Engineering (MEng) Field of Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering from University of western Sydney(UWS). She also accomplished few certificates in Programming Microcontroller, Project Management Principles and Practices Specialization from the university of UC Irvine California. Aida has experience as an Electrical Engineer, Business Development Manager, Project Manager and Operation manager in the Engineering industry in the past years. The most important thing that she always focuses on her career is the communication and trust. She strongly believes that communication is the solvent of all problems. When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

Christian Keller

Technical Sales Manager

James has a background of technical expertise in broadcast studio and defence electronics, database development, software quality assurance and website management. James is an Altium Designer expert with over 15 years experience using and influencing the development of electronics design software as well as supporting Australian electronics design engineers.

Questions?

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