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Design Decisions
with Signal Analyzer
Avoid costly delays and complex tools. Signal Analyzer offers real-time analysis and intuitive visuals - seamlessly integrated into your Altium design experience.
Signal Integrity Expert
You don’t need to be an expert to resolve high-speed signal issues. Signal Analyzer simplifies signal integrity analysis, allowing you to visually spot and fix problems, without the need for specialized knowledge.
Asynchronous Circuits
Timing issues in asynchronous circuits can cause data errors. Signal Analyzer helps you analyze and correct these timing problems, ensuring your high-speed circuits stay synchronized.
Inefficient Transmission
High insertion and return loss can weaken signals, leading to data errors. Signal Analyzer identifies where these losses occur, so you can address the issues and improve signal quality.
High-Speed Signal
Maintaining signal integrity is critical for high-performance PCB designs. Signal Analyzer enables you to check transmission line resistance and detect potential issues like reflections and loss.
Document Design Compliance
Meeting company and industry standards is crucial to avoid costly revisions. Signal Analyzer helps you generate comprehensive reports, ensuring your designs meet compliance requirements.
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1. Install Signal Analyzer extension first
After installation Restart Altium Designer Panels
2. In PCB or schematic opened run Tools > SI Analyzer by Keysight
3. Click Analyze or Analyze All Nets
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Make Smarter Design Decisions with Signal Analyzer
- Fully integrated in Altium Designer
- Real-time signal integrity analysis
- Intuitive visual feedback
- No expertise required
- Detailed & shareable reports
- Quick iteration & adjustment
“Working with designs including many high-speed interfaces I used to spend days making sure signal integrity is in order. I decided to give Signal Analyzer a try and it was much better than I expected - calculating impedance and propagation time without switching to external software is a real time-saver and I find it more precise than other tools.”
“Dealing with high-speed signals has never been easier – Signal Analyzer supports my daily design challenges, starting from PCB stackup adjustments, signal integrity and propagation analysis, and ending with PCB corrections such as copper fills or even vias placement. The design of PCIe buses or even single-ended signals related to high-speed multi-channel ADCs/DACs or 868 MHz / 2.4 GHz transmission lines can be optimized and aligned with project constraints, saving a lot of time.”
Frequently Asked Questions
No, Altium Designer 24.3 or higher is required to use the Keysight Signal Analyzer extension.
No, your board information is being analyzed locally.
Yes. You can analyze DDR single-ended and differential traces with signal analyzer. The result will be impedance, delay, insertion loss and return loss.
The highest frequency of the insertion loss and return loss is 20 GHz, which translates to roughly 10 Gbps. The impedance calculation and time delay should be reliable and higher than 10 Gbps.
Yes.
- Transmission lines are modeled as 2D cross-sections and solved by FEM.
- To speed up via analysis and to retain accuracy, lumped element models are created from the dimensions of each via.
The trace traversal algorithm in the engine uses 2D FEM to solve for the characteristics of the transmission lines.
Yes. Dk and Df values for impedance and loss.
Yes, Signal Analyzer considered the reflections from via stubs. The via stub resonance is also captured.
The accuracy of the impedance calculation is within ±0.1% of the result from the commercially available, industry-trusted impedance solver from Keysight ADS.
Altium Signal Analyzer
by Keysight Technologies
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