Synthelyzer™ ECAD Plugin
𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀,
𝗠𝗧𝗕𝗙 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻
𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝘁𝗶𝘂𝗺, 𝗢𝗿𝗖𝗔𝗗, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗶𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗘𝗗𝗔
Benefits:
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Automates Component Derating: Streamlines the manual component derating process, enhancing efficiency.
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Saves Time and Reduces Errors: Saves time, reduces errors, and accelerates design cycles.
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Generates MTBF Reports: Generates MTBF reports based on real stress, improving MTBF outcomes.
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Identifies Overstressed Components: Identifies overstressed components, providing actionable recommendations for adjustments.
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Ensures Robust Products: Ensures more robust products by pinpointing and resolving potential failure points, and enhancing PCB quality.
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Utilizes Central Design Data: Utilizes design data as a central repository for reliable information.
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Maintains Analysis-to-Design Traceability: Maintains seamless analysis-to-design traceability, aligning every analysis with real-time design updates for clarity and relevance.
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Achieves Comprehensive Traceability: Achieves comprehensive traceability by directly linking analyses to the latest schematic version, facilitating verification and validation processes.
Additional Benefits:
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Control PCB Weight: Synthelyzer™ offers comprehensive component stress analysis, helping to identify components that contribute to excess weight. This empowers designers to make informed decisions about alternatives that maintain performance while effectively reducing overall PCB weight, leading to more efficient and user-friendly products.
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Maximize Space Efficiency: Before moving to the layout phase, Synthelyzer™ conducts thorough analyses to identify components that may take up more space than necessary. By optimizing component selection early in the design phase, engineers can ensure better space utilization, resulting in more compact and functional designs.
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Tackle PCB Density Challenges: The plugin addresses PCB density challenges by identifying over-designed components. With design change recommendations, Synthelyzer™ ensures that your PCB design is both compact and functional, streamlining the design process and helping mitigate potential routing and placement issues.
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Reduce Component Costs: Synthelyzer™ identifies overstressed components while providing insights into more cost-effective alternatives that meet performance requirements. This proactive approach can lead to significant savings on component costs while maintaining quality and reliability, ultimately fostering a more cost-efficient design process.
Key Features:
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Utilizes cutting-edge AI technology for robust and efficient design solutions.
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Seamless integration with leading ECAD software for streamlined workflow and real-time analysis.
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Includes automated circuit stress calculators to expedite design processes.
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Performs detailed analysis of electrical stress derating for components.
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Utilizes thermal simulation results to enhance derating accuracy.
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Provides thermal resistance data and stress metrics for 3D thermal simulations.
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Identifies EOS violations with Pareto analysis and detailed reports on over-stress and over-design.
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Recommends design adjustments to resolve overstress issues effectively.
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Implements derating guidelines managed for optimal component performance.
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Automates FMECA analysis to assign failure modes and assess PCB-level impacts.
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Predicts MTBF based on FIDES 22, Telcordia 3 Parts Count/Parts Stress, and Mil-217-F2 standards.
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Calculates Parts Stress MTBF using precise electrical and thermal stress data (when using fiXtress).
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Features an AI-driven PCB components library with automatic parameter filling.
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Automatically integrates reliability data across all RAMS analyses (fiXtress, FMECA, FTA, RBD, MTTR, and Logistics).
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Collaborates with fiXtress through tools like "components library manager" and "derating curves manager" for comprehensive system-level analysis and reporting, incorporating thermal estimations and component data.
How It Works:
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Specializes in PCB analysis: Unlike traditional system-level tools, it focuses on analyzing individual components within the PCB.
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Seamlessly integrates with design tools: Works effortlessly with leading ECAD software to facilitate in-workflow analysis.
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Offers detailed insights: Enables thorough analysis of potential failure points, ensuring precise predictions for PCB reliability.