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3D Full-wave Electromagnetic Field Simulation
Featured Capabilities
3D Full-wave EM Field Simulation
- Pushbutton Solution Data:
- S-parameters (single-ended, differential, de-embedded, renormalized); Y and Z matrices
- Port mode and impedance calculation by 2D-eigenmode solver fields
- E and H fields, current densities, material losses, Q factors, radiation losses
- Radiated-field calculations (directivity, gain, beam width, side-lobe levels, axial ratio, etc.)
- SAR calculation
- Accurate broadband interpolating sweep with rigorous treatment of dispersive ports, material and skin effect
- Tangential vector finite elements
- Adaptive Lanczos Padé Sweep (ALPS) for fast frequency sweeps
- Automatic adaptive mesh generation and refinement
- Model healing, automatic feature recognition, mesh resolution control, and fault-tolerant meshing for CAD import
- Low-, medium, and higher-order basis functions
- Direct, iterative and new domain decomposition matrix solvers (32 and 64-bit)
- Eigenmode matrix solver (32 and 64-bit) including periodic boundary conditions for traveling wave and electromagnetic band-gap structures
- Floquet ports for antenna arrays, frequency-selective surfaces (FSS) and other periodic structures
- Auto-assign for terminal-driven ports
- Incident field from several sources including small current loop, dipoles, and arbitrary plane waves
Solution Data
- S-parameters (single-ended, differential, de-embedded, renormalized)
- Far-field calculation (2D, 3D, gain, angular beam width)
- Port mode and impedance calculation by 2D-eigenmode solver fields
- SAR calculation
- Mode conversion
- Material losses, radiation losses
Full-Wave SPICE™ Models
Data Display/Result Visualization
- S-, Y-, Z-parameter matrix
- Plots
- 2D/3D Cartesian/Polar plots, Smith charts and Data tables
- Overlay measurement data
- Copy vector graphics to clipboard
- Display Trace Characteristics, Markers, Delta Markers and X Markers
- Copy and Paste of plot definition or data from one report to another
- Library of Report Templates: Create templates from reports, vice versa
- Port surface characteristic impedance
- Differential S-parameter, TDR display
- 3D static and animated field plots on any surface
- Current, electric field, magnetic field
- Radiation pattern, emissions test
- Vector display, magnitude display
- Ranged Functions - Extract calculations, such as maximum, minimum and average, from a plot or dataset
Options
- HFSS-IE
- 3D Method of Moments (MoM) Integral Equation technique
- Automatic adaptive meshing
- Advanced Adaptive Cross Approximation (ACA) technique
- Integrated within the HFSS desktop
- Utilization of results from HFSS as a linked source
- HFSS HPC
- Distributed Memory Parallel (DMP) via Domain Decomposition Method (DDM)
- Allows higher capacity simulation of much larger models through access to memory on a network of machines
- Inter- and intra-machine parallel computation technique for HFSS with shorter simulation times and improved memory efficiency
- Multiprocessing
- Enables faster solving on computers with multiple processing cores
- Distributed Solve for parallel computing:
- Discrete and interpolating frequency sweeps
- Optimization, sensitivity analysis, statistical analysis
- Integrated optimization/parametric solutions
- Geometry and material parameterization
- N-dimensional data plots (family of curves)
- Automated optimization, sensitivity and statistical analysis
- Dynamic links to Ansoft products
- Nexxim® and Ansoft Designer® for circuit and system simulation of microwave, analog/RF and high-speed digital designs
- HFSS to HFSS datalink allows large 3D problems to be decomposed into multiple domains
- SIwave™ for EMI/EMC analyses
- Maxwell® for ferrite devices
- AnsoftLinks™ for geometry import:
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