"Classical signal integrity tools with static field solvers are not reliable at microwave frequencies starting from 3 GHz or 6 Gb/s where the board size becomes comparable or larger than wavelength," said Yuriy Shlepnev, president and founder of Simberian, Inc..

"As the result, we see more and more customers switching from to 6 Gb/s or high data rates and experiencing design failures because of limitations of their SI tools used to validate the designs."

3D full-wave electromagnetic tools must be used instead to design working interconnects on PCBs and in packages at these data rates. "Such tools are typically created for microwave engineers, notoriously hard to use, and very expensive," said Shlepnev.

"Simbeor is the industry-first electromagnetic tool developed for the signal integrity and EMI engineers to enable the smooth transition into the microwave domain at low cost. The last update release provides a complete set of features for exploration and verification of interconnects on PCBs."

Features include: