Our Services

Most engineering managers today understand the importance of including signal integrity analysis as part of the design process before committing to prototyping and manufacturing. Yet, some managers are not aware of how valuable it is to include analog experts as part of their engineering team.

Ludvik Kindl brings over 15 years experience in signal integrity analysis, plus 26 years in analog/RF design, to help engineers solve their most challenging problems in designing and testing high-speed digital IC packages, printed circuit boards, backplanes, and systems.

Ludvik Kindl works side-by-side with your engineering team to help create quality results quickly in the following areas:

High-speed Components Selection
Signal Integrity Analysis
Simulation Modeling
Transmission Line Analysis
Power Integrity Analysis
Analog/Digital Circuit Design
Technical Supervision of Layout and Fabrication
Signal Integrity Seminars

High-speed Components Selection

		High-speed materials selection
		Selection of connectors, logic families, drivers/receivers, and cables
		High-density interconnect (HDI) tradeoffs
		PCB stack design

Signal Integrity Design and Analysis

		Architecture for clock and data distribution
		Crosstalk, coupling and reflections control
		Skew and jitter reduction
		Timing analysis
		Simultaneous switching noise suppression
		Mitigation of rise time degradation and inter-symbol interference effects
		VLSI package design or characterization of the existing one
		Specification of design rules and design review

Simulation Modeling

		SPICE and IBIS model creation and validation
		Troubleshooting of existing SPICE and IBIS models
		Use of simulation tools: HSPICE (Synopsys), PSpice (Cadence), HyperLynx GHz (Mentor Graphics), SPECCTRAQuest (Cadence), ADS (Agilent)
		Pre-layout and post-layout simulations
		Differential clock and data modeling
		2D field solver-RLCG matrix calculations

Transmission Lines Analysis

		Selection of termination rules
		Controlled impedance calculation and impedance testing
		Skin effect, dielectric loss and dispersion control mitigation
		Long cable implementation
		EMI and EMC control

Technical Supervision of Layout and Fabrication

		Customizing of high-speed layout rules
		Training and technical supervision of layout personnel
		PCB fabrication specification and compliance testing
		Impedance testing of PCB prototypes

Power Integrity Analysis

		Robust power distribution system (PDS) design
		Design of PDS to avoid rail collapse and minimize noise
		Effective bypassing for relevant frequencies
		SPICE modeling of surface mounted bypass capacitors
		Testing and measurement of power distribution planes

Analog/Digital Circuit Design

		Analog and digital equalization techniques
		Clock PPL and DLL design
		DDR & Rambus SDRAM memory implementation
		Designing, building, and testing of prototypes

Signal Integrity Seminars (1-hour)

		Signal Integrity basics for engineers and layout subcontractors
		Signal Integrity basics for managers