CST Studio Suite: EDA/SI-PI

Lesson 1: 
Introduction

• SIMULIA Brand overview
• Product portfolio
• CST's helping mechanisms for user guidance

Lesson 2: 
Solver Overview

• PCB solver overview for SI/PI applications
• 3 different solvers for running PCB simulation
• Boundary conditions for PCB simulations

Lesson 3: 
Circuit Simulation Overview

• Overview of CST DS
• IBIS viewer
• Port definitions in PCB Studio
• Various circuit simulation tasks 

Lesson 4: 
EDA Workflow Integration

• EDA workflow import procedure
• Analyzing features in PCB Studio
• Viewing stackup editor
• Layout checker
• Selecting different traces, nets, and components
• Exporting PCB and parts of the PCB into another CST environment

Lesson 5: 
Modeling Techniques

• Introduction to the modeling interface in CST
• Sample Exercies
• Component Library
• EDA modeling features 

Lesson 8: 
DC IR Drop/ Power Integrity Solution Overview

• PDN (Power Delivery Network) overview
• Where are PDNs used in today's technology
• PDN components
• DC IR Drop analysis
• AC impedance analysis
• PI (Power Integrity) workflow
• PI setup
• Introduction to the Decap analysis tool

Lesson 9: 
Signal Integrity Overview

• Characterization of SI (Signal Integrity) analysis
• SI in time and frequency domains
• When to run 2D TL (transmission line) or 3D full wave analysis
• When to use IBIS models
• How to simulate for eye diagrams

Lesson 10: 
CST MWS Solver Overview

• CST MWS 3D solver overview
• When to choose the most appropriate solver and for which application
• Differences between different solvers and meshing capabilities
• Which scenarios to use adaptive meshing
• Introduction to the Hybrid Solver (HS) task/uni-directional vs bi-directional approaches

Lesson 11: 
IBIS-AMI

• Serializer and deserializer overview
• High speed transmission of data
• IBIS workflow overview
• Setting up transient, IBIS-AMI, and Eye analysis tasks