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How to overcome challenges in your Electronics design?
Congratulations! You just finished your first prototype. You put a lot of thought and time into it and now your idea finally came to life. But when you start testing your product, you encounter issues. The product heats up to much, there is considerate crosstalk, the device is emitting a lot of noise and your product doesn’t meet up with certification standards. A big setback in your design process. But did you know that, by using Ansys tools, you can overcome these problems in the early stages of your design process?
When you finally have your prototype, you want to be sure of its behaviour. Making prototype after prototype would cost you a lot of money and time. Using simulation tools in the early design process can help you detect a lot of problems you might encounter and make sure that when you come to the prototype stage, the chances of unwanted behaviour are smaller. This saves you a lot of money and time-to-market but also helps you optimize your product.
Signal & Power Integrity
The key to a successful product is signal & power integrity. You want to make sure that you can manage peak power, that there’s no interference between components and that your radiated emissions are within certification standards. By modelling different parts of your design and performing Power Integrity analysis you can get a clear view of how the power in your product is distributed and thus make smart choices in the design process.
EMI / EMC
When introducing a new, electronic device, you need to pass certain EMC specification standards like CISPR 25. Crosstalk between components must be kept at a minimum in order for your device to operate without errors. Radiated emissions must also be kept low to pass those standards. However with the complexity of today’s devices these issues can be difficult to tackle without excessive testing. Ansys simulation tools help you do this early in the design stage, giving you insight in the behaviour of your product and testing different approaches to solve excessive emissions.
Thermal reliability
Power brings heat. Needless to say that, when designing an electronic device, thermal reliability is of big importance. You need to be sure that heat is distributed the right way for optimal usage of your product. By simulating the heat transfer of the electrical components, you can discover possible overheating problems in the early stages and prevent the device from underperforming due to this, but also assure safety of operation within the thermal limits.
Product lifetime
When designing your product, you want to be able to provide a specific lifetime guarantee to your customers. However, there are conditions that can decrease the lifetime considerably. With simulating your design to include these environmental conditions, you can predict its lifetime and make changes in the design to accustom for a longer expectancy.
Using the example of a PCB, underneath Whitepaper explains how Ansys simulations can help you overcome these challenging subjects in your design. You can download it below (only available in English):
Join our Lunch Break Webinar Series!
In the coming period our Electronics expert Odysseas Votsis is joining you during your lunch break to talk more about the challenges you might encounter and how you can fix them in the early stages of the design process. You can join him on his lunch break to learn more. Registration is now available!