Partnership announced alongside power integrity solution

30th January 2014

Altium Limited

Staff Reporter

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Alongside the launch of a power integrity solution - Altium PI-DC, Altium have announced a development partnership with Nimbic. This makes Nimbic the latest developer partner to join Altium’s Developer program.

Enabling designers to validate DC voltage and current performance before prototype and production, Altium PI-DC is based on Nimbic’s specialized 3D full-wave electromagnetic solver. Designers can avoid issues with power delivery and are better able to identify potential failure points. This includes high via currents that could cause fusing, or high resistance neck-down regions resulting in excessive voltage drop.

Designed to address the requirements of large-scale power integrity problems, Altium PI-DC delivers fast solution times without compromising on accuracy. Altium PI-DC is able to integrate into Altium Designer as an optional extension, giving engineers a seamless environment for DC analysis. Nets for analysis are selected in Altium Designer with DC voltage drop and current density results displayed directly over the layout. This allows a designer to interactively identify and fix issues with no guess work about what layout structure might be causing the issue.

“Nimbic views this relationship with Altium as a significant opportunity to expand our market presence,” said Bala Vishwanath, Chief Marketing Officer of Nimbic. “With Altium’s PCB knowledge and Nimbic’s Electromagnetic Simulation expertise, we have the ability to raise the bar and introduce solutions that are no longer cost prohibitive allowing companies not only to increase productivity, but also design for reliability.”

“BGAs have hundreds of power and ground pins with numerous supply rails requiring complex networks of capacitors to manage “pure” power. The sophistication of the PDN (power distribution network) requires engineers to be able to effectively analyze and make corrections early on in the design process,” said Daniel Fernsebner, Director of Technical Partnerships for Altium. “This partnership with Nimbic introduces a robust integrated power integrity solution to our customers.”

Altium PI-DC will be released in the first quarter of 2014 and will also be presented at embedded world 2014 in Nuremberg.