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19 years ago

HSSI Simulation Tools

What tools are people using to simulate their high speed transmission channels? We have Agilent's ADS on hand since we do a lot of analog RF design and we've been looking at AWS for the same reason,...
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19 years ago

The tools that I generally use is Ansoft HFSS, Ansoft designer and Mentor Hyperlynx. It really depends on what you want to do and the speed of the interfaces are. Ansoft Designer witn Nexxim is an excellent choice for RF design as well. If you are planning on useing the IO drivers of the ALT2GXB then you're choices are limited I belive that HSPICE, ELDO and DML models are supported.