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High Capacity Layout Pre-processor Element

High Capacity Layout Pre-processor Element

The High Capacity Layout Pre-processor Element is an ODB++ file format import and pre-processing tool that enables you select the environment immediately around critical nets in preparation for electromagnetic (EM) modeling. This type of pre-processing is useful in high-speed digital design where the printed circuit board (PCB) is very complex and whose total geometry exceeds the capacity of an EM-based field solver. The solution is to focus in on a handful of critical nets; for example, a differential pair connecting two Serializer/Deserializer (SERDES) integrated circuits (ICs) that is a victim of crosstalk from one or more aggressor traces. An example of such a trace is shown highlighted below in Figure 1. Note that the board has been "cookie cut" meaning a convex hull with a user-defined margin has been defined, leaving a portion of the board whose complexity is within the capacity constraints of full-accuracy, full-wave EM field solvers such as Momentum and FEM Element.

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