ANSYS Releases Ansoft Designer 6.0

By DE Editors

With Ansoft Designer 6.0’s new Solver on Demand technology from ANSYS, electronic design engineers can now analyze signal-integrity, power-integrity and electromagnetic interference (EMI) problems from a single schematic- and layout-based environment.

Ansoft Designer 6.0 enables high-speed electronics and RF/microwave designers to access field and circuit simulation tools while designing electronic packages and printed circuit boards (PCBs) — early in the design cycle before manufacturing costs are incurred.

Solver on Demand technology integrates HFSS, 3D electromagnetic field simulation software from ANSYS, and HSPICE, an integrated circuit simulation tool from Synopsys, within the Ansoft Designer 6.0 design platform. The resulting benchmark design flow offers the ability to predict how high-frequency electromagnetic components affect the integrated circuits.

Electromagnetic field simulation can be a challenge for engineers due to the requirements of 3D modeling, port setup and boundary conditions. That challenge has been addressed by building HFSS directly into Ansoft Designer 6.0. Models of RFIC layout, IC packages and printed circuit boards from Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics and Zuken can be imported directly to Ansoft Designer and solved in HFSS without any further setup. The package layout can be parameterized to compute tuning and sensitivity to understand impedance variations due to process.

Ansoft Designer 6.0 provides a user interface to HSPICE with direct links to HFSS and access to the ANSYS QuickEye and VerifEye convolution and statistical eye analysis as well as IBIS-AMI technology.

Fro more information, visit ANSYS.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.