Ansoft_cost_effective_PCBsCreating High-Performance, Cost-Effective PCBs How can EDA tools be applied to save board costs? ! What are the concerns with new materials and manufacturing techniques? ! ! ! Functionality Parasitics Time to market ! Number of board turns ! Analyze before building ! ! ! ! Put the new design into an analysis tool Optimize the design Sweep design parameters to check for trends Generate Spice models. Outline of Presentation ! Stack Up Choices ! ! High Density Interconnect Technologies Embedded Capacitance ! Materials Choices ! Board Area ! ! Buried Passives Micro Vias, Via in Pad Who uses HDI and Why? ! Three Major Application platforms ! ! Miniaturization Performance ! ! Low Parasitics = High Performance Reduce costs Flip-Chip Chip Scale Packaging ! Packaging ! ! I……