Sigrity - Tip of the week: Unified cockpit to set up your designs for In-Design Analysis

Sigrity Aurora provides you the capability to do In-Design Analysis (IDA) for all stages of your design, from early schematic-based pre-design analysis to electrical rule-checking analysis during the design phase to full, detailed post-route signoff analysis.

IDA has multiple easy-to-use workflows like Impedance Analysis, Coupling Analysis, Crosstalk Analysis, IR Drop Analysis, and many more.

Among these workflows, you have Design Setup Workflow. This workflow has a single cockpit to manage different design-level settings. The settings you specify will be honored across different workflows and ensure that you are using consistent settings.

To use this workflow, go to Analyze > Workflow Manager, in the Analysis Workflow tab, select Design Setup Workflow.

You can set various design-level settings from this workflow. For example, you can open Material Editor to define materials. You can view, add, edit, or delete materials, and can specify the thickness and tolerance for the required material.

If you want to set or view the width, conductivity, or dielectric constant for a layer, you should be able to do these changes in Cross-section Editor using the Define Cross-section button.

Further, you can assign DC Nets early using this cockpit by clicking on the Identify DC Nets button. For example, if you are running IR Drop Analysis, you must set up your VRMs and sinks. This can be a crucial step to get accurate results. Using this command, you can assign a voltage property on one or multiple nets so that they are identified as DC Nets.

You can also use Set up Components, Set up XNets, and Assign Diff Pairs to prepare your database for running IDA workflows.

If you want to know more about any of these IDA workflows or any of the Design Setup Workflow settings, comment below!!!