Digital design testing solutions for validating and debugging your designs
As technologies keep rapidly evolving, high-speed digital standards need to constantly adapt to stay ahead of the game and remain powerful. Electronic engineers are faced with designing and developing integrated circuit board architectures to fulfil these demanding requirements. Each generation of an electronic device also brings new challenges to the performance of your digital design. If you want to ensure that your digital system design meets the increasing standards and challenges, you need to test it at all stages of the product development cycle – from design to full compliance. Digital design testing solutions have to cover a wide range of design variations – e. g., interconnect products – and provide testing tools for numerous measurements like jitter tests.
Signal integrity and power integrity are essential for digital designs. Increasing data rates and shrinking supply voltages along with increasing integration densities, require lower jitter and noise limits for signals and clocks. They also lead to stronger impairments on the transmission channel such as frequency dependent loss, reflections and crosstalk, and intensify the effects of voltage sag and ground bounce on the power rails. Additionally, shrinking supply voltages continually reduce power rail disturbance tolerances, inducing jitter and amplitude noise on signals and clocks.
