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How to Simulate Low Voltage, High Power 2000 Amps to a Dynamic Digital Load

EM simulators that are optimized for PCB PDN simulations provide an increased level of automation to enable the basics of DC IR Drop, electrothermal, and AC impedance for early detection of design issues. In this article, Heidi Barnes, Steve Sandler, and Benjamin Dannan examine why the ability to optimize a PDN for ZTarget with PCB parasitics in the frequency domain and then export to an end-to-end PI Digital Twin simulation for validation in the time domain should be standard practice for the PI engineer.


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Assessing the Accuracy of EM Simulation Tools

Electromagnetic simulation tools will almost always give a result for any problem after pressing the run button. But is the result accurate? A methodology is introduced to establish the best practices for using the Ansys 2D Extractor and HFSS tools that include recommendations for the setup conditions, balancing accuracy, and computation time. With this methodology, an error in the absolute accuracy when solving for some electrical features can be achieved to better than 0.3%.


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