Extension for Power Analyzer by Keysight
Run Keysight-powered power integrity analysis to evaluate voltage drop, current density, and PDN performance - directly within your PCB design workflow.
Avoid Power Delivery Failures and Last-Minute Surprises
Power delivery issues often surface late in the design process, leading to instability, overheating, and costly redesigns. Power Analyzer helps teams identify voltage drops, current density issues, and unstable power delivery early, before they impact performance.
Built on Keysight’s proven analysis technology, it enables engineers to address power integrity challenges sooner and deliver more reliable designs.
Understand Power Behavior with Real-Time Insights
Gain clear visibility into current flow and voltage distribution directly within your design environment, without relying on external tools or assumptions. These insights help teams evaluate design decisions faster, align on trade-offs, and ensure stable power delivery across the system.
Key Capabilities
Evaluate Power Distribution as You Design
Power Analyzer, powered by Keysight, gives teams direct visibility into how power is distributed across the PCB, helping engineers assess voltage behavior, current flow, current density, and overall power integrity as the design evolves.
This makes it easier to evaluate power delivery in context, understand PDN performance, and make better-informed design decisions earlier in the process.
Identify Power Integrity Risks Before They Impact Performance
Power Analyzer helps uncover power integrity risks such as voltage drop (IR drop), excessive current density, and unstable power delivery before they affect system performance across the PCB design.
Early visibility into these issues, including in complex layouts and high-current paths, reduces the likelihood of rework and supports more predictable, reliable design outcomes.
Understand How Power Flows Through Your PCB Design
Power Analyzer provides clear insight into how current flows through different paths in the design and how voltage is distributed across components, planes, and vias.
With this visibility, teams can better understand the impact of design decisions, evaluate PDN performance in context, and ensure stable, reliable power delivery across the system.
Ensure Consistent Power Integrity Validation Across Designs
Power Analyzer supports a consistent approach to evaluating power integrity across projects and teams, standardizing how PDN performance and power behavior are analyzed and documented.
This alignment helps teams work against shared design quality criteria, improves collaboration and internal reviews, and supports scalable, reliable design processes.
Validate Power Stability and PDN Performance in Demanding PCB Designs
Power Analyzer enables teams to analyze power performance in complex, high-demand scenarios, including dense layouts, high-current paths, and multi-layer designs.
Teams can validate PDN stability under realistic operating conditions, helping identify potential failure points early and ensure reliable operation before manufacturing.
FAQs
Power integrity analysis evaluates how power is delivered across a PCB, identifying issues such as voltage drop (IR drop), current density hotspots, and unstable power distribution.These challenges become critical in complex or high-current designs, where poor power delivery can lead to system instability, overheating, or failure. Power Analyzer helps teams visualize and validate power behavior early in the design process.
Power Analyzer is available to all Altium Designer users as an installable extension.
It can be installed directly from within Altium Designer across all subscription levels, including Altium Develop, Agile Teams, and Agile Enterprise. A 14-day trial is available, enabling teams to start analyzing power integrity in their own projects without upfront commitment.
After the trial, teams can choose to purchase the extension as an add-on if they want to continue using it.
Power Analyzer is fully integrated into Altium Designer, enabling engineers to perform power integrity analysis directly within their design environment.
There is no need to export files or switch tools. Analysis runs alongside layout and routing, allowing continuous validation and faster design iteration.
No. Power Analyzer embeds power integrity analysis directly into the PCB design workflow.
This eliminates the need for separate simulation tools, reduces context switching, and enables faster, more efficient validation during design.
Power Analyzer detects key power integrity issues such as voltage drops (IR drop), excessive current density, and unstable power distribution across the PCB.
By identifying these risks early, teams can optimize power delivery networks (PDNs) and prevent performance issues before manufacturing.
Power integrity analysis should be performed early and continuously throughout the PCB design process.
Identifying voltage drop, current density, and power distribution issues during layout and routing allows teams to resolve risks before they impact performance or require costly redesigns.
Power Analyzer leverages Keysight’s industry-proven analysis technology to deliver accurate and reliable power integrity insights.
This ensures engineers can trust the results when validating power delivery and making critical design decisions.
Power Analyzer is designed for PCB designers and engineers working on complex or high-current designs, as well as teams that need reliable insight into power delivery and system stability.
It is also valuable for engineering managers who want to improve design predictability and reduce risk across projects.
Voltage drop occurs as current flows through traces, vias, and planes, reducing the effective voltage delivered to components.
If not properly managed, it can lead to unstable operation, reduced performance, or system failure. Identifying voltage drop early helps engineers design more reliable power delivery networks and avoid costly redesigns.
Resources
Webinar
Power Integrity Made Simple
Whitepaper
Understanding Power Integrity in PCB Design: Power Analyzer by Keysight
Blog
Avoid These Top 3 Power Distribution Failures in PCB Design
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