CADENCE SYSTEM DESIGN & ANALYSIS
Sigrity Unified Analysis Workbench
Complete electrical analysis platform built to help you solve all your SI, PI, and EMC design challenges across the board
Solve The Next Generation of Design Challenges with Sigrity
Designs are not getting simpler and delivery schedules aren’t getting longer. If you hope to stay ahead of the competition, you must determine optimal design configurations, validate performance, and signoff on your critical interconnects well before you get to prototype . Sigrity provides the only complete analysis solution designed to solve todays multi-physics, multi-domain design challenges.
EASY
Guided, Workflow-Driven Analysis
Figuring out how to set up the simulation shouldn’t take twice as long as the analysis. Sigrity provides easy to follow workflows and wizards designed to guide you through the simulation setup and analysis process quickly and efficiently. Coupled with a comprehensive model library and management environment you have a quick repeatable path to analysis that can be leveraged throughout your organization.

FAST
Get to Actionable Insights Quickly - Pre & Post Layout
Along with reduced setup time, Sigrity boasts the fastest analysis engines on the market. Up tp 10x faster run-times than other leading engines, Sigrity is optimized to meet the challenges of todays complex analysis requirements. Full multi-threading threading support allows you to accelerate this speed-up even farther by leveraging your multi-core compute resources to go from run to results in no-time.

ACCURATE
Hardware-Correlated Results
Analyze and verify with confidence knowing your results will have tight correlation to real-world hardware. Your analysis is only as good as the confidence in your results. Cadence rigorously tests Sigrity against their own hardware ensuring the correlation you need to sign-off with confidence.

MULTI-CAD
Analyze in Your Environment Seamlessly
Regardless of your CAD environment it is easy to bring your data into Sigrity for quick and accurate analysis. Simply drag and drop your design files on the unified canvas and start running workflows. Leverage the automated reporting engine to quickly generate and share insights from your analysis with colleagues drastically cutting down on reporting time.

UNIFIED LAYOUT WORKBENCH
ONE ENVIRONMENT. ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES.
Signal Integrity
Impedance | Coupling | Crosstalk
Noise | TDR/TDT
Power Integrity
IR Drop | Resonance | Impedance | Loop Inductance | Thermal
Thermal Analysis
Transient & Static Electrical
Thermal Co-Sim | FEA | CFD
EM Analysis
Model Extraction | Full 3D EM
S-Parameters
ESD
Virtual ESD Gun | TVS Analysis
EMI/EMC
Near Field | Far Field | SAR
Radiated Emissions | Cap Optimization
Channel Analysis
DDRx | USB | PCI-e | MIPI | HDMI
SATA | Serial | Parallel | AMI Modeling
Topology Exploration
SI | PI | Solution Sweeps
Requirements Definition
THERE'S A WORKFLOW FOR THAT
The unique workflow-driven design environment and comprehensive simulation engines allow you to quickly access and perform the analysis needed to meet your design needs. As your analysis requirements increase, it is easy to add additional workflows all within the same common UI.

Signal Integrity
Impedance
- Amplifiers and Linear ICs
- Analog Behavior Models
- Data Converters
- Discrete
- Electro-Mechanical
- Ideal Devices
- Logic
- Magnetics
- Memory
- OptoElectronics
- Passives
- Power Management
- Programmable Devices
- Simulator Command
- Sources
- Special Functions
- Switches
Reflection
- Amplifiers and Linear ICs
- Analog Behavior Models
- Data Converters
- Discrete
- Electro-Mechanical
- Ideal Devices
- Logic
- Magnetics
- Memory
- OptoElectronics
- Passives
- Power Management
- Programmable Devices
- Simulator Command
- Sources
- Special Functions
- Switches
Coupling
- Amplifiers and Linear ICs
- Analog Behavior Models
- Data Converters
- Discrete
- Electro-Mechanical
- Ideal Devices
- Logic
- Magnetics
- Memory
- OptoElectronics
- Passives
- Power Management
- Programmable Devices
- Simulator Command
- Sources
- Special Functions
- Switches
Crosstalk
- Amplifiers and Linear ICs
- Analog Behavior Models
- Data Converters
- Discrete
- Electro-Mechanical
- Ideal Devices
- Logic
- Magnetics
- Memory
- OptoElectronics
- Passives
- Power Management
- Programmable Devices
- Simulator Command
- Sources
- Special Functions
- Switches
Return Path
Prevent divergence between ideal simulation and measurement by analyzing and identifying return path discontinuities to ensure uninterrupted references and an optimized return path.
Power Ground Noise
TDR/TDT
Serial Link (PCIe, USB, etc)
Easily model, simulate, and analyze topologies to evaluate signal integrity performance for complete serial link interfaces.
Parallel Bus (DDR)
Provides full time-domain analysis for parallel bus protocols and supports a variety of IBIS and AMI protocol setups, including the newer/faster protocols reliant on serial channel methodologies, to determine performance compliance.
S-Parameter Model Extraction (Channel)
Create realistic simulations with the easy and convenient extraction of S, Z, and Y parameters of multiple port networks that model package and board structures.

Power Integrity
IR Drop
Resistance Measurement
Determine power loss through analysis of the DC resistance from a source to a load.
Resistance Generation (Measurement and Network Model)
Analyze system-level power loss for your entire PDN through the generation of a resistance network matrix based on the terminals specified by the user.
PDN Impedance Checking
Capacitor to IC Device Loop Inductance
IC Device Power Pin Inductance
Best Capacitor Location Estimation
Determine the best location for capacitor placement to reduce resonance within the PDN which can cause EMI radiation.
Decoupling Cap Optimization
Automatically evaluate the board to define optimal decoupling capacitor selection and placement based on design goals (form factor, price, PDN robustness, etc).
Pin Location Effectiveness
Improve pin effectiveness with the easy detection of high resistance between the source (VRM) and load (pin) to reduce the likelihood of overheating.
Resonance
Prevent electrical spikes by identifying resonant modes between predefined frequency ranges.
Noise Coupling
Determine the effects of external power delivery, conducted emissions, and coupling paths to reduce noise on the PDN.
E/T Co-Simulation
Easily solve both electrical and thermal equations simultaneously through single-board/package or multi-board/package 3D finite element methods.
Package Thermal
Ensure adherence to JEDEC standards through the easy extraction of thermal parameters such as lead frame packages, BGAs, wire-bonds, package-on-package (POP) and system-in-package(SIP), flip-chip packages, and more.
S-Parameter Model Extraction (PDN)
Accurately analyze the PDN with the easy extraction of S, Z, and Y parameters of multiple port networks that realistically model package and board structures.

EMI/EMC/ESD
EMC/EMI Simulation
Analyze near-field E/H densities and radiation effects from traces and edges to easily identify problematic EMI radiating devices and the extent of noise to determine necessary shielding and faraday cage placement.
Plane Wave Susceptibility (EMC/EMS Simulation)
3D Layout Full-Wave Spatial
Provide accurate EM solutions for complicated 3D structures with 3D finite element analysis tools and adaptive mesh refinement tailored to IC package and PCB designs.
ESD Simulation
S-Parameter Model Extraction (Vias, Connectors, Components)
Create realistic simulations with the easy and convenient extraction of S, Z, and Y parameters of multiple port networks that model vias, connectors, and components.

GET STARTED & SCALE EASILY
Sigrity Starter Pack
Getting started is oftentimes the hardest part of adopting new technology. Gain access to a powerful set of ready-to-go SI/PI/EMC workflows you can use right out of the box to quickly start your next-generation, electrically-aware design flow with the Sigrity Starter Pack. This pack is designed to get you operational with minimal setup so you can begin to identify and solve design issues early across the board quickly. Then, as your needs grow, easily scale up and add workflows to guarantee you always have the analysis capabilities needed for the task at hand.
Easily Communicate Your Results & Insights In Real-Time
For complex interfaces like DDR or PCI, manually reporting on all the data points needed to guarantee compliance is error-prone and can take hours to create. With Sigrity, the reports and documents needed to communicate with project stakeholders are just another output of your simulation and analysis activities. Documents are easily sharable and consumable in HTML format. Compliance reports are auto-configured based on the interface specifications, ensuring you are documenting all the key metrics needed for sign-off.
SERIAL LINK
Automated SerDes Analysis
Ensuring your key serial interfaces operate as intended is not easy. Sigrity allows you to move to production with confidence by providing a complete sign-off level design, analysis, and compliance environment for your critical serial links.
Key Capabilities
- Wizard-driven workflows makes setup and analysis easy
- 10x performance to competitive solvers with no loss of accuracy
- Built-in pass/fail compliance checking for major serial interfaces (PCIe, HDMI, SFP+, XAUI, SAS, SATA, USB, etc)
- Best-in class vendor independent IBIS-AMI model support
- Full channel analysis to concurrently identify crosstalk, CDR, SSO, and confirm BER over millions of bits
Download White Paper: Serial Link Engineering: A Novel Jitter/Noise Metric to Qualify Channel Components
Power-Aware DDRx
Achieve first-pass success for your DDR interfaces with Sigrity. Quickly model and analyze these complex interfaces with hardware-level accuracy at any stage of your design with the easy-to-use, Sigrity-guided workflows.
Key Capabilities
- Wizard-driven workflows makes setup and analysis easy
- 10x performance to competitive solvers with no loss of accuracy
- Power-Aware analysis included to ensure hardware level accuracy
- Support for all generations of DDR including the latest DDR5
- Account for ISI, Crosstalk, Reflections, and SSN
- IBIS-AMI model support to incorporate equalization and other and other controller learning and adjustment capabilties