SiSoft and Xilinx will be hosting a free Webinar serial link analysis Webinar on multi-gigabit design using Xilinx IBIS-AMI models. The Webinar takes place Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific/1:00 p.m. Eastern.

Next-generation communications, networking and consumer electronics products are replacing high-speed parallel interfaces with multi-gigabit serial links as the primary means of moving data within a system. Conventional signal integrity and timing analysis won't work for these links, which require analyzing millions of bits worth of behavior to reliably determine how jitter, noise and crosstalk affect link operating margins.

The IBIS-AMI modeling specification allows standardized, interoperable models of SerDes IP that provide the high levels of simulation performance and accuracy needed to correctly predict the behavior of serial links. This Webinar highlights how IBIS-AMI based simulation will enable you to increase design reliability while reducing engineering design time.

Using SiSoft's Quantum Channel Designer software and IBIS-AMI models, systems designers can experiment with different combinations of channel lengths, connectors, via designs and transmit/receive equalization to quickly determine which configurations provide adequate operating margin and which don't. Pre- and post-layout simulation with Quantum Channel Designer allows designers to validate designs and reduce time to market while increasing confidence in their design's reliability and manufacturability.

This complimentary Webinar will focus on the following topics:

• Xilinx IBIS-AMI simulation models for Virtex-5, Virtex-6 and Spartan-6;
• Predicting serial link operating margins using simulation;
• Co-optimizing your channel design and SerDes configuration;
• Assessing the impact of jitter, noise and crosstalk; and 
• Xilinx IBIS-AMI Design Kits for SiSoft's Quantum Channel Designer.

Click here to register.

About the Presenters

Todd Westerhoff, Vice President of Software Products for SiSoft, has over 26 years experience in the modeling and analysis of electronic systems, including 10 years of signal integrity experience. Westerhoff is one of the original co-authors of the IBIS-AMI modeling specification for SerDes IP, and has been presenting the development and progress of IBIS-AMI modeling at industry conferences for the past two years.

Anthony Torza, Senior Technical Marketing Manager for Xilinx, is a specialist in the area of serial transceivers. Previously he was a System Architect and Hardware design engineer for various telecom equipment companies including CIENA and Tellabs. He holds an MSEE from Stanford.