HyperLynx Schematic Analysis automates schematic verification, saving time and improving product quality with comprehensive model libraries.
HyperLynx Schematic Analysis delivers a fast and intuitive approach to schematic verification, helping engineers quickly locate potential issues without the need for extensive simulation tools. This automated process organizes and highlights schematic errors, allowing you to address them efficiently while minimizing development time and costs. By integrating automated schematic reviews into your design capture workflow, HyperLynx enables you to adopt a 'right first time' approach that significantly reduces product testing, warranty costs, and design respins caused by schematic errors.
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With HyperLynx, all nets within your schematic undergo a full inspection using an intelligent, component-based model library. This automated analysis occurs before the schematic freeze milestone, allowing layout to proceed with high confidence in achieving first-pass success. The tool identifies common issues like capacitor derating, incorrect symbols, and missing pull-ups, ensuring that your design is free of errors before it moves to the next stage.
Unlike native schematic checkers that rely on symbol libraries, HyperLynx Schematic Analysis leverages the manufacturer’s part number directly from the Bill of Materials (BOM). It references a library built from vendor datasheets, reducing the need for manual review. The results are presented in a concise graphical format, highlighting critical errors, defects, and warnings. This enables users to cross-probe directly into the schematic for real-time issue resolution.
By performing schematic analysis in parallel with design capture, HyperLynx ensures that errors are identified early in the design process. Additionally, it can be used to analyze existing designs already in the market, improving product quality, increasing yield, and reducing product returns. This flexibility makes HyperLynx an essential tool not only during initial design but throughout the product lifecycle.
HyperLynx Schematic Analysis includes an extensive list of rule checks to ensure thorough schematic validation:
- Complete extended net verification, including series resistors, switches, and AC-coupling
- Full multi-board and backplane interface verification
- IO compatibility checks for minimum, maximum, and logic thresholds
- Identification of address and data bus errors (MSB to LSB, bus source, etc.)
- Verification of external passive component requirements
- Detection of unconnected mandatory pins
- Power and ground plane connection verification
- Differential signal connectivity checks
- IO net connectivity validation, including missing driver/receiver detection
- Pin function compatibility checks (resets, I2C swapping, etc.)
- Symbol mismatch detection (based on datasheets)
- Capacitor, resistor, and diode derating validation
- And many more…
HyperLynx Schematic Analysis not only simplifies error detection but also ensures your design follows PCB best practices. Errors are highlighted directly within the schematic, allowing for quick adjustments that help maintain product integrity. Additionally, the tool can be applied to designs already in production to improve their reliability, increase manufacturing yield, and reduce the likelihood of product returns.
