Featured Capabilities

• Quasistatic 3D electromagnetic-field analysis using Method of Moments (MOM) accelerated by Fast Multipole Method (FMM)
  • Includes proximity and skin effect, dielectric and ohmic loss, and frequency dependence
  • Pushbutton 3D extraction of resistance (R), inductance (L), capacitance (C) and conductance (G) matrices
  • Infinite ground planes can be modeled
• Quasistatic 2D electromagnetic-field analysis using the Finite Element Method (FEM)
  • Per-unit-length RLGC parameters for transmission lines
  • Characteristic impedance (Z0) matrices
  • Propagation speed, delay, attenuation, effective permittivity
  • Differential and common-mode parameters
  • Near- and far-end crosstalk coefficients
  • Surface roughness modeling
  
• Creation of equivalent circuit models (SPICE sub-circuits/ladder-type lumped models)
  • HSPICE®, PSPICE®, Spectre® and other Berkeley SPICE-compatible tools
  • HSPICE W-element models (tabular frequency dependent) for transmission lines
  • Cadence DML, Intel LCF and IBIS .pkg model IBIS ICM model
  • Simplorer® SML models
• Creation of frequency-domain S-parameters
  • AC/DC R and L included in RL(f) model
  • Distributed model
  • Touchstone format supported
• Display of data/visualization of results
  • Matrices of parasitics
  • Current and voltage visualization for conductors
  • Vector and magnitude field plots
• Model healing, resolution, and fault-tolerant meshing for CAD import
• GDSII import
• User-defined primitives (UDP) for customizable geometric elements/library of parts
• Integrated optimization/parametric solutions (cost option)
  • Geometry and material parameterization
  • Optimization, sensitivity, and statistical analysis
• Distributed Solve for parallel computing (option)
• Dynamic links to Ansoft Designer®, Nexxim® for EM-circuit co-simulation
• Coupled with Simplorer for power system modeling