Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Setting up simulation and explaining everything essential you need to know about channel simulation such PCIE or IEEE. Thank you very much Bert Simonovich

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Chapters:
00:00 What is this video about
00:53 What is channel and why to simulate it
06:33 Why is loss important
14:25 Stackup
15:21 Dielectric properties Df Dk
21:47 Copper roughness
27:34 Construction tables and stackup
33:05 10 layer stackup example
38:30 When start worrying about stackup details
48:03 Copper Roughness models
57:53 Filling up Stackup into Polar software
1:03:53 Setting up Dk and roughness
1:06:46 Calculating Loss of a transmission line for stackup in Polar
1:09:05 Saving model of transmission line
1:20:29 Creating models of VIAs
1:33:20 Dielectric anisotropy
1:38:52 DesignCon
1:42:41 Creating and setting up simulation
1:51:11 Simulation and results
1:54:04 Comparing good and bad PCB material results
1:57:28 COM - Channel Operating Margin
1:59:07 Setting up COM simulation
2:02:57 COM results

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