INTEGRATED Engineering Software Launches CHRONOS

By DE Editors

INTEGRATED Engineering Software has released CHRONOS, its new time domain solver and high frequency tool for modeling and simulating 3D RF and microwave applications. The software has been introduced to address the challenge of the modeling and simulation of many RF applications and antennas in terms of speed, required memory, and accuracy.

By adding CHRONOS, INTEGRATED now offers a suite of electromagnetic tools, ranging from low frequency to light waves, from static to complete transient solutions. INTEGRATED's software programs can also be coupled to thermal analysis.

In terms of variety of solvers, INTEGRATED now has added the Finite Difference Time Domain method. This is an addition to the Boundary Element and Finite Element solvers currently available in the company's software packages.

CHRONOS can be used for the analysis and design of RF and antenna applications including:

• Near field and far field applications
• Planar microwave and antenna structures
• Wire antennas
• UWB antennas
• Microwave circuits, waveguides and coaxial structures

"This is the first new addition to our simulation software in years and we believe that it fills a gap in the engineers modeling tools," says Bruce Klimpke, INTEGRATED Engineering Software technical director. "We are also taking a different route with the further development of CHRONOS and inviting our customers to suggest sectors where this program could prove a useful tool. Then we will look at how it can be adjusted to meet that need."

CHRONOS is closely related to SINGULA, INTEGRATED's 3D high-frequency time harmonic electromagnetic analysis software, and will provide designers with techniques such as Finite Difference Time Domain, Moment of Methods (MoM), and the Finite Element Method (FEM).

After the geometry is specified and its material properties and required outputs assigned, CHRONOS will automatically generate a mesh for simulation. The software includes a smart mesh generator combined with material identification code. This code has the ability to recognize all the details of any structure and decide how to distribute the mesh sizes based on the accuracy requirements of the time domain solver. CHRONOS includes the option to either generate the mesh distribution manually or automatically.

CHRONOS is compatible with many CAD programs, including Tecplot, Autodesk, SolidEdge and Solidworks.

For more information, visit INTEGRATED Engineering Software.

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