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Sigrity: possible to generate "impedance (heatmap) plots" in .mcm designs as Aurora can do for .brd designs?

dontpanic
dontpanic over 2 years ago

Hi! Is it possible to somehow generate "impedance plots" for a .mcm design, as Aurora can do for .brd designs?
I'm referring to the type of "heatmap" impedance plot overlaid to the signal traces and planes, like the one below (taken from the "Allegro IDA Workflows: Impedance Analysis" RAK)

Alternatively, is it possible to somehow "convert" my .mcm design into a .brd, so that I can use Aurora to this purpose?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Jorge.

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    0 JuanCR over 2 years ago

    Hi Jorge,

    About the second part of your query ... Unfortunately there is no way to convert .mcm or .sip files into .brd and viceversa. These are now two different and incompatible types of databases 

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    0 dontpanic over 2 years ago in reply to JuanCR

    Thanks Juan; hopefully someone can comment then on the feasibility of achieving this using Sigritry.

    KR, Jorge.

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    0 Schulz Jordan over 2 years ago in reply to dontpanic

    You can generate heatmap with Sigrity tools. Do you have any ?

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    0 dontpanic over 2 years ago in reply to Schulz Jordan

    Yes we do! Could you please elaborate on how could we achieve an impedance heatmap using Sigrity?

    Thanks and regards,
    Jorge.

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    0 dontpanic over 2 years ago in reply to Schulz Jordan

    Yes we do! Could you please elaborate on how could we achieve an impedance heatmap using Sigrity?

    Thanks and regards,
    Jorge.

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