W2225BP ADS Memory Designer Bundle

The PathWave ADS Memory Designer Bundle includes the following key features and capabilities:

• Dramatically reduce setup time with new components for easy setup of controller, PCB, connectors, terminations and memory
• IBIS files can be applied ‘per device’ giving faster setup and parameterization of settings for groups of signals
• Automated wiring connections, utilizing DDR Signal IDs found in the layout design
• DDR Bus simulator to characterize signal integrity, capturing margin-to-mask tests down to ultra-low BERs
• New Memory Probe to set up measurements by group, with intelligent selection of signal references
• New strobed-eye diagrams and skew measurements
• Automated DDR4 Compliance Test suite and report generation, utilizing Keysight’s industry-recognized DDR4 measurement science
• Support for DDR5 and LPDDR5 with an Bit-by-Bit simulation, using IBIS-AMI enhanced for the requirements of single-ended DDR signaling
• SIPro and PIPro EM analysis – for fast and accurate electromagnetic extraction of signal nets and power/ground nets
• Capable of Pre-Layout (Via Designer and Controlled Impedance Line Designer) and Post-Layout analysis, for Memory and SerDes designs alike

For a hardware designer working on memory systems, they must contend with both shrinking timing and voltage margins, and a complex list of compliance measurements to ensure reliable operation. As we move to DDR4 and now into DDR5, random jitter, crosstalk and equalization become much more critical. The designer needs to have confidence they can optimize the channel design and pass the Receiver Mask Tests at ultra-low Bit Error Rates (BERs). Keysight’s new PathWave ADS Memory Designer workflow minimizes the engineering effort required to setup, extract EM models, simulate the buses, and perform compliance testing. Offering a unique capability to use the same measurement science for both simulation and hardware verification stages, finally simulation to measurement comparison is made easy.

Predictive. Productive. Insightful.

The ADS Memory Designer Bundle consists of ADS Core, TransConv, Channel, IT, Layout, SIPro, PIPro, and Memory Designer as shown in the table below.