Course Description

This is an Engineer Explorer course for designers who need a comprehensive and detailed understanding of power-rail analysis for advanced processes.

In this two-day course, you explore the need for power-rail analysis and use the Encounter? Power System software to run several types of power-consumption and power-rail analyses. In the first day, you run a basic rail analysis using Encounter Power System. You import design data and run some design sanity checks. You create power-grid view libraries. You also run static power and rail analysis. In the second day, you run dynamic power and rail analyses and explore more advanced power-rail analysis and decap optimization. You also run early rail analysis using Encounter Digital Implementation XL technology.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

Run early rail analysis to detect problems inthe early stage of the design
Discover the input data that is required for power-grid analysis and run design data sanity checks
Run signoff power-grid analysis and explore how it fits within the design flow
Generatepower-grid libraries for power-grid analysis
Run staticand dynamic power and rail analysis
View static and dynamic power and rail analysis results and debug power grid issues
Run decap optimization and understand the impact of decap on IR drop.