parps
Newbie level 4
Hello Everyone,
I would like to extract S-parameters of a handful of traces routed on a Silicon Interposer (permittivity ~4). Traces length will be less than 8mm and the signal frequency is 28GHz. The goal is to simulate signal integrity among other things.
I do not own an EM Field Solver or any RC extractors (xRC, Quantus and so on) because of a very limited budget. So I was exploring some free tool options (fast henry, fast cap) and hoped to extract a cascaded RLCk network for each traces. Then my plan is to do a manual conversion (hand calculation) to get cascaded S-parameters.
This whole process seems fairly laborious and I also question the reliability of the free tools I mentioned above.
I would like to hear any recommendations/suggestions or even critics that could help me get where I want !
Thanks !
I would like to extract S-parameters of a handful of traces routed on a Silicon Interposer (permittivity ~4). Traces length will be less than 8mm and the signal frequency is 28GHz. The goal is to simulate signal integrity among other things.
I do not own an EM Field Solver or any RC extractors (xRC, Quantus and so on) because of a very limited budget. So I was exploring some free tool options (fast henry, fast cap) and hoped to extract a cascaded RLCk network for each traces. Then my plan is to do a manual conversion (hand calculation) to get cascaded S-parameters.
This whole process seems fairly laborious and I also question the reliability of the free tools I mentioned above.
I would like to hear any recommendations/suggestions or even critics that could help me get where I want !
Thanks !