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Technical Overview of Fuel Cell Systems


Fuel cells offer the means for the conversion of chemical energy in hydrogen rich fuels (fossil and renewable) directly to electricity without having to generate thermal energy as an intermediate step. In a fuel cell, the fuel and oxidizer, usually the oxygen in air, react electrochemically to produce water and heat. The entire fuel cell system includes the fuel cell and a number of additional ... » read more

ANSYS HFSS and SGI UV 2000 Takes Electromagnetic Simulation To New Heights


This white paper discusses how the latest version of ANSYS HFSS (Release 16) takes full advantage of the SGI UV2000 advanced symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) system to achieve these objectives. Utilizing SGI’s sixth generation technology, engineers and scientists can leverage hundreds of processing cores and terabytes of coherent shared memory to solve very large EM field simulations, as well ... » read more

System-Aware SoC Power, Noise And Reliability Sign-off


In globally competitive markets for mobile, consumer and automotive electronic systems, the critical success factors are power consumption, performance and reliability. To manage these conflicting requirements, design teams consider multiple options, including the use of advanced process technology nodes — especially finFET-based devices. These advanced technology nodes allow chips to operate... » read more

Power Delivery Network Verification Coverage


Power grid verification is a challenge, and there are no industry standards for design teams to follow that will verify the power grid for power and signal integrity issues. In other areas there is typically a verification plan with checks to perform, and when successfully completed, the design is then considered verified to proceed to tape-out. Having high coverage in the power grid’s power... » read more

Power And Noise Integrity For Analog / Mixed-Signal Designs


The convergence of advance process technology, increasing levels of integration, and higher operating frequencies pose considerable challenge to IP designers whose circuits are required to function in variety of conditions. Full-custom and mixed signal circuit designers ensure that their circuits will function by simulating for various operating conditions (PVT, input stimuli, etc). One key asp... » read more

System-Aware SoC Power, Noise And Reliability Sign-off


In globally competitive markets for mobile, consumer and automotive electronic systems, the critical success factors are power consumption, performance and reliability. To manage these conflicting requirements, design teams consider multiple options, including the use of advanced process technology nodes — especially FinFET-based devices. These advanced technology nodes allow chips to operate... » read more

RTL Design-for-Power (DFP) Methodology


Commercial power analysis tools have been available now for over 10 years, operating at the gate and transistor level of abstraction. For analog, mixed-signal, and custom designs, transistor-level tools are utilized as both design and verification tools, meaning that they help designers analyzing power and serve as the final ‘sign-off’ to ensure that power specifications are met. For standa... » read more

System-Aware SoC Power, Noise And Reliability Sign-Off


In globally competitive markets for mobile, consumer and automotive electronic systems, the critical success factors are power consumption, performance and reliability. To manage these conflicting requirements, design teams consider multiple options, including the use of advanced process technology nodes — especially FinFET-based devices. These advanced technology nodes allow chips to operate... » read more

System-Aware SoC Power, Noise And Reliability Signoff


In globally competitive markets for mobile, consumer and automotive electronic systems, the critical success factors are power consumption, performance and reliability. To manage these conflicting requirements, design teams consider multiple options, including the use of advanced process technology nodes — especially FinFET-based devices. These advanced technology nodes allow chips to operate... » read more

System-Aware SoC Power, Noise And Reliability Sign-off


In globally competitive markets for mobile, consumer and automotive electronic systems, the critical success factors are power consumption, performance and reliability. To manage these conflicting requirements, design teams consider multiple options, including the use of advanced process technology nodes — especially FinFET-based devices. These advanced technology nodes allow chips to operate... » read more

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