Altium Designer Tutorial for Beginners: Power Analyzer by Keysight

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Due to the demands placed on the design's DC Power Delivery Network by high-speed circuitry, densely populated boards, and multiple low-voltage supply rails, modern digital systems must be designed analytically. In other words, that the planes, tracks, and vias on the board are of sufficient size (and characteristics) to meet the power consumption requirements of the devices on the board. This is what the DC analysis of a Power Delivery Network, or the results of its DC Power Integrity (PI-DC), aims to ensure: that adequate copper has been provided in the path from the voltage sources to the loads.

Fortunately, by using a DC Power Integrity (PI-DC) simulation tool, which evaluates a board design's DC performance based on its electrical and physical attributes, the examination of a PCB's power delivery network may be done without the need of guessing. For Altium Designer, Keysight's Power Analyzer is such a tool.

The Power Analyzer, which is available as a free Altium Extension, interacts seamlessly with Altium Designer to provide PI-DC modeling and analysis of the present PCB project. The Power Analyzer can be launched from the schematic or PCB editor, the desired test parameters can then be set, and the simulation can be run. Because the Power Analyzer is integrated into Altium Designer, there are no manual data import/export requirements, data conversions, or separate applications to be launched. The circuit board copper layout is primarily represented in 2D and 3D models, which makes it possible to quickly examine the findings and test the PCB layout design in hypothetical scenarios.

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
1:00 How to install the extension
1:52 Activate License
2:09 Example design files
3:01 Preparing the Schematic before power analysis
6:35 Power Analyzer Setup
7:46 Power Circuit Topology
8:49 Adding a Power Net for Simulation
12:02 Add voltage regulator modules (VRMs)
13:25 Finding datasheet + Octopart
15:18 Power Trees
16:16 How to Navigate Schematic Nets
16:27 How to add load devices to 5V
18:20 How to Show Power Hierarchy/Tree
18:48 Adding load devices to any secondary power tree (3.3V)
20:55 Verify your secondary (3.3V) power tree
21:39 Adding a second VRM as a load (the 1.8V VRM)
25:25 How to Simulate the PCB Power Network - review results
26:33 Power Analyzer Panel
27:34 How to Take snapshots for reports
27:53 Adjust heat map settings
27:56 Show current flow direction
28:37 Voltage drop analysis
29:34 Current density in all nets
30:53 How to probe specific points - find voltage gradients
31:45 Generate report
34:21 Export files to Altium Viewer
34:54 My recommendations and thoughts on the software
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