TIDEWIRE
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GPU Electromagnetic Solver

Your board is an antenna.
See what it's doing.

Tidewire solves the full electromagnetic field of your boards, connectors and cables on your own GPU, in a signed desktop app. Gerbers in, eye diagram out, nothing uploaded.

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● RECORDED SOLVE · SCENE 1 OF 4
Differential pair over a ground plane Opposite pulses leave the trace pair; the ground plane shapes how they spread and couple.
Screen capture from Tidewire's 3D FDTD solver, playing on loop. Click a scene to jump to it.
Playground

Drag the trace.
Watch the impedance move.

εr 4.30 ground plane W/H 1.75
Characteristic impedance 52 Ω effective εr 3.30

A closed-form estimate (Hammerstad) for a bare microstrip. Tidewire solves the real cross-section, with solder mask, copper thickness and your fab's stackup.

21 s

to solve a 5.95-million-cell SMA launch with half a metre of RG-316, on a desktop graphics card.

381 mV

eye height on a MIPI DSI lane at 1.5 Gb/s, board to ribbon, passing the D-PHY mask with 50% to spare.

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of your design uploaded. Every solve runs on your own GPU, in a signed app on your own machine.

Gerbers in. Eye diagram out.

  1. 01

    Import

    Gerber, ODB++ or IPC-2581, plus your connector maker's STEP models.

  2. 02

    Build

    Fab stackup, solder mask, connectors, cables and ribbons, attached where they mate.

  3. 03

    Solve

    Cross-sections in seconds; full 3D on your GPU in minutes, not hours.

  4. 04

    Check

    TDR, S-parameters, crosstalk and eye diagrams against compliance masks.

Free to start.

Community Free Signed download. Up to ~1.5 M cells, for learning and personal projects.
Maker $99 First year, then $49 a year.
Pro $590 A year. One person, commercial use.
Team $890 Per floating seat a year, two minimum. Invoice billing.
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the first time.

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