Standalone S-parameter viewer and supported formats available with Sigrity

With Sigrity, you can access the S-parameter viewer from within the installation.

Go to <installation directory>:\Cadence\Sigrity<version_number>\tools\bin and look for  BnpViewer.exe.

Double-click on the executable to launch the S-parameter or BNP file viewer.

You can load S-parameter in two ways.

1. Go to File > Open.

This is a direct interface to browse the S-parameter file.

2. Right-click on the empty Network Parameters space and click on the Load button as shown below.

The formats supported for load S-parameters are:

 BNP Format (*.bnp *.bds): BNP (Binary Network Parameter) is a Cadence Sigrity encrypted file format and it is supported in all Sigrity tools.

Touchstone Format Files 1.0 (*.S*P): Touchstone 1.0 is an IBIS open forum standard file format in which only the signal nets along with their reference nets are modeled. It is an ASCII text file representing the n-port network parameter data.

Touchstone Format Files 2.0 (*.ts): Touchstone 2.0 is an IBIS open forum standard file format in which you can model signal nets and power nets together. This model allows coupling between the signal and power nets.

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