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Board Level Integration

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Signal Integrity
Signal Integrity
A complete resource center for ensuring your logic will work on the board
  • Fundamental and advanced documentation and examples
  • Calculators and estimators for managing SSO, backplane design, and more
  • SI simulation tools and IO models including SPICE and IBIS
PlanAhead
PlanAhead™ Design and Analysis Tools
Includes PinAhead Technology for FPGA-based
pin-planning

  • Get faster results in less time with industry-unique productivity features
  • Fully automatic or semi-automated assignment of I/O ports to physical package pins
  • DRC and WASSO compliant I/O assignment
  • Partial reconfiguration made easier

Board Level Integration

Xilinx understands the critical issues such as complex board layout, signal integrity, high-speed bus interface, high-performance I/O bandwidth, and electromagnetic interference for system level designers.

  • SystemIO
    Xilinx leading high-performance and configurable SelectIO technology supports a wide variety of I/O standards. It provides the fastest and most flexible electrical interfaces.
  • Signal Integrity
    The documents and links in this area are designed to give you everything you need to achieve reliable PCB designs on the first try.
  • PlanAhead Design and Analysis Tool
    PlanAhead, with PinAhead Technology, delivers fully automatic or semi-automated assignment of I/O ports to physical package pins. PinAhead also provides DRC and WASSO compliant I/O assignment, simplifying the cumbersome process of I/O management.
  • Mentor HyperLynx™
    Provides PCB designers with the tools necessary to proactively eliminate high-speed, signal integrity (SI) related errors in their PCB designs.
  • Mentor ICX™
    Provides an integrated design and verification environment for electrically-driven high-speed design.
  • Cadence Allegro® PCB SI
    Analyzes and corrects potential high speed signal integrity problems before you fabricate your PCB.
  • Ansoft HFSS™
    Provides 3D electromagnetic analysis to assure the correct performance of your high-performance system designs.
 
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