Getting Started with Q3D Extractor

Q3D Extractor is an interactive software package that electrically characterizes three-dimensional interconnect structures, such as those found in connectors, Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), Ball Grid Arrays (BGAs), and Multi-Chip Modules (MCMs).

Q3D Extractor can solve for:

• Capacitance and conductance matrices
• DC analyses:
  • Partial inductance and resistance matrices
  • Partial resistance matrices
• AC analyses:
  • High-frequency, partial inductance, and resistance matrices

You choose the matrices you want to generate, draw the structure, specify material properties for each object, identify conductors, and specify source excitations. Q3D Extractor then generates the necessary circuit parameters. From these matrices, you can generate lumped equivalent circuit models in any of several SPICE formats.