2. HFSS v11.1 Released (top)
HFSS v11.1 is available for Windows®, Linux®, and Solaris® operating systems. Version 11.1 includes a number of updates and enhancements, including meshing and model resolution and validation features, Nastran (.nas) geometry import, parasolid and Unigraphic geometry import (Windows only), and enhanced post-processing features. To learn more, contact your nearest Ansoft sales office.

3. Nexxim, Ansoft Designer v4 Enable Efficient High-Speed Electronic Design (top)
Nexxim® and Ansoft Designer® v4 include new statistical analysis and transient simulation capabilities that allow engineers to rapidly simulate high-speed serial channel behavior. This eliminates prototype iterations that require expensive test equipment and multiple spins that delay time-to-market. Nexxim v4 features VerifEye™ and QuickEye™, new methodologies for eye-diagram analysis that maintain accuracy while offering major reductions in run time. Ansoft Designer v4 features a new “push excitation” feature and enhanced dynamic links to Nexxim, HFSS™, SIwave™, and Q3D Extractor®, allowing engineers to accurately predict signal integrity effects and EMI/EMC performance of advanced electronic systems.
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4. Q3D Extractor v8 Provides Streamlined Signal Integrity Analysis (top)
Q3D Extractor® v8 efficiently performs both the 2D and 3D electromagnetic field simulation required to extract RLCG parameters from an interconnect structure and automatically generates an equivalent SPICE circuit model for use in Nexxim®, the company’s high-capacity circuit simulator, or other Berkeley SPICE-compatible tools. Version 8 includes a new capacitance solver that is capable of extracting the capacitance and conductance with lossy dielectrics. This new solver is optimized to exploit available computer memory and perform multiple frequency evaluations and allows users to model infinite ground planes.
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5. Maxwell, RMxprt v12 Offer New Capabilities and Streamlined User Interface (top)
Ansoft recently announced the release of Maxwell® v12 and RMxprt™ v12 for Microsoft Windows®, Linux, and Solaris. Maxwell v12 includes a new 3D electric transient solver that solves time-varying electric fields due to a transient disturbance, such as lightning strikes on electrical equipment. The new version also is equipped with advanced model healing capabilities, and the Ansoft next-generation desktop architecture has been added to the Maxwell 2D solvers for many new usability enhancements. RMxprt has been upgraded with a new capability to solve three-phase non-salient synchronous machines, automated project setup for Maxwell and a new wire library allowing motor designers to study the effects of various wire types of a design prior to physical prototype creation.
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6. ePhysics v3 Delivers Multidisciplinary Analysis Framework (top)
ePhysics™ v3 provides the ability to couple thermal and stress simulation to Ansoft’s industry-leading electromagnetic field simulation software, Maxwell® 3D or HFSS™. This combination delivers the multidisciplinary analysis framework needed to solve coupled physics problems and allows users to consider thermal, deformation, and mechanical stress consequences of respective electromagnetic field simulations in applicable devices, such as RF components, electromechanical devices, MEMS, and biomedical applications.
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7. SIwave v3.5.2 Available for Windows and Linux (top)
Customers can download SIwave™ v3.5.2 at http://download.ansoft.com for the following platforms: Microsoft Windows® XP Professional, Server 2003 Standard Edition, XP Professional x64 Edition, Server 2003 Standard x64 Edition, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux® v3 and v4 32- and 64-bit operating systems.
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8. Multi-Gigabit Serial Channel Design EDN Webcast Available On Demand (top)
Rapid and Accurate Simulation of Multi-Gigabit Serial Channels is available on demand at the EDN website. This one-hour Web seminar introduces two new simulation technologies—fast transient and statistical tools—that are now included in Nexxim®, Ansoft’s circuit simulation engine. The fast transient tool uses long, user-defined bit patterns to produce an eye diagram. This analysis allows engineers to create controlled stress tests and to identify specific bit sequences that cause bit errors. The statistical tool produces both eye diagram plots and BER curves for complete high-speed channels in minutes. Because these technologies link to full-wave electromagnetic field solvers and a high-capacity circuit simulation engine, accuracy is not sacrificed for the improved simulation speed.
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9. “Challenges of Hybrid Power Train Technologies” IEEE Webcast On Demand (top)
With the introduction of hybrid power-train technologies and their higher voltages and currents, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) has become a critical area of study for automobiles, raising issues for designers that include significant increases in cost and longer design cycle times. “EMI/EMC Simulation Analysis: The Challenges of Hybrid Power Train Technologies,” an IEEE Spectrum Tech Insiders webcast, discusses where 3D finite element (FEM) electromagnetic solvers can be applied to a set of problems in full-vehicle EMC and demonstrates the validity of the solutions with measured results from recent studies.
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