Ansoft Designer® is an integrated schematic and design management front-end for Ansoft's best-in-class simulation technologies, Nexxim®, HFSS™, Q3D Extractor®, and SIwave™. Ansoft Designer is the foundation for a highly accurate design flow that allows users to precisely model and simulate complex analog, RF, and mixed-signal applications and perform signal-integrity analysis and system verification of high-performance IC/package/board designs. This flexible, easy-to-use software includes schematic capture and layout editing, netlist generation, a planar electromagnetic solver (Method of Moments), and sophisticated data visualization and analysis tools.

Ansoft Designer Product Suites

Ansoft Designer technology is available in application product suites targeted to specific design needs and applications. These product suites combine subsets of Ansoft Designer and Nexxim functionality for engineers that may not require the advanced feature set available in the full products.

New in Ansoft Designer v4.1

• S-Parameter Analyzer tool
• I/O Wizard for channel setup
• Push excitations link for QuickEye & VerifEye analyses to HFSS, SIwave and PlanarEM.
• Crosstalk channel analysis for QuickEye & VerifEye
• Peak Distortion analysis
• Expanded active and passive libraries for high frequency designs
• Receiver jitter and noise

Example of Ansoft Designer system simulation capabilities.
Top Left: WiMax mobile communication system schematic
Top Middle: Cross-Modulation spectrum
Top Right: Swept Bit Error Rate Responses for MPSK systems
Bottom Left: Eye Diagram for QPSK transmitter
Bottom Middle: Constellation diagram for 128QAM system
Bottom Right: End-to-End communication system including Baseband & RF transmitters and receivers