Product Overview

Ansoft Designer® integrates best-in-class simulation technologies, Nexxim® circuit simulator and HFSS™, Q3D Extractor® and SIwave™, using Solver on Demand®. This dynamic, parameterized co-simulation capability allows engineers to auto-interactively achieve optimal designs. Integration is achieved not through a rigid top-down hierarchy that limits designers, but through powerful handshaking mechanisms that empower individual designers to apply their creativity and skill to develop high-performance and cost-effective solutions.

For high-performance RF/mW design, Ansoft Designer combines system-level behavioral base-band and RF blocks with transistor-level detail for analog circuits and 3D full-wave electromagnetic detail at the component level to provide accurate board-level simulations of EVM, BER, ACPR, IP3, and PAE.

For high-performance analog/RFIC verification, Ansoft Designer complements existing IC design capture and advanced package layout tools with its built-in planar electromagnetic solvers and dynamic, parameterized co-simulation with HFSS and Nexxim. Engineers can create accurate models of on-chip passives and board/package interconnects, combine them with detailed analog circuits, and simulate the true interactions between active nonlinear devices and passive parasitics at high frequencies.

Signal-integrity engineers rely on Ansoft Designer to combine S-parameters, W-elements, and HSPICE®, Spectre® and IBIS models directly as schematic components, achieving seamless integration of behavioral, circuit and GHz-accurate interconnect models in a unified schematic desktop. Together with Nexxim, Ansoft Designer provides transient and frequency-domain analyses, optimization, tuning, and post-processing for key signal-integrity metrics, such as TDR (time-domain reflectometry), BER (bit-error-rate), and eye diagrams.