XML Interface Module – OEM access to the powerful Si8000m / Si9000e boundary element field solvers

Many OEM customers require direct access to the Polar field solvers. The XML Interface Module is designed for system integrators who need an industry standard controlled impedance solution. It delivers accurate controlled impedance and loss values over a range of popular controlled impedance structures and geometries. Values calculated with the XML Interface Module are guaranteed to be identical to those produced from the Si8000m / Si9000e field solvers and presented via the traditional user interface. The XML Interface Module replaces earlier OEM and interface modules.

The XML Interface Module accesses the field solver calculator engine by linking to the Si8000m / Si9000e. The interface module requires that a user has a fully installed Si8000m or Si9000e (version 2018 or later) with active Polarcare; compatible OEM packages are then able to access the Si8000m / Si9000e calculation engines via the interface module. The Si8000m, Si9000e and XML Interface Module are all available from your Polar office or distributor.

The XML Interface Module includes a wide range of popular structures including:

Single ended and differential structures
Single ended and differential coplanar structures

(The implementation may vary depending on 3rd party partner product specification.)

The package incorporates detailed structure graphics:

Field solving impedance design system

The XML Interface Module provides access to the powerful Si8000m / Si9000e boundary element field solver, packaged to provide accurate impedance and loss modeling of most popular impedance controlled structures.

With the ever increasing speeds of modern circuitry the demand for high quality controlled impedance printed circuit boards is continuing to grow. Today's PCBs are not just simple electrical interconnection devices, they are complex highly specified components in their own right. As the demand for controlled impedance PCBs has risen there has been a subsequent increase in requirement to verify these board designs prior to manufacture.

The Si series field solvers offer powerful modelling features:

Differential impedance PCB structures
Single ended impedance modeling
Microstrip and stripline constructions
Si series field solvers employ Boundary Element Method (BEM)
Soldermask thickness modeling between and adjacent to tracks

The Si8000m field solving impedance design system offers advanced field solving methods to model most circuit designs and is totally complementary to the CITS and Atlas impedance and insertion loss test systems. CITS measurement systems have been in use with leading PCB manufactures throughout the world since 1991 and Polar is recognised as a world leader in production line impedance testing.

Support

Please take a look at the controlled impedance and loss modeling application note pages – you will gain maximum benefit from your Si8000m / Si9000e if you read these supporting notes. These brief articles help you translate the precision output of the field solvers into practical real world PCBs with good production yields. Ask us about support packages for your Si8000m / Si9000e.

OEMs wishing to access Si8000m / Si9000e via the XML Interface Module please contact:

Martyn Gaudion