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EM behavior
4 Insulation studies
4 Electrostatic discharge
4 Electromagnetic shielding
4 Nondestructive analysis
4 EMI/EMC
4 Semiconductor
4 Biomedical
HFSS Features
Electric fields around on-chip Surface currents from a UHF blade antenna mounted on
4 3-D full-wave EM field simulation spiral inductor an aircraft; simulation performed with HFSS software
4 Tangential vector finite elements
4 Automatic adaptive mesh generation
HFSS software is the industry-standard simulation tool for 3-D full-wave electromagnetic
and refinement
4 S-,Y-, Z-parameter extraction via field simulation. HFSS technology provides E- and H-fields, currents, S-parameters and near
transfinite elements and far radiated field results. Intrinsic to the success of HFSS software as an engineering
4 Adaptive Lanczos Pade Sweep design tool is its automated solution process, whereby users are only required to specify
(ALPS) geometry, material properties and the desired output. From that point, HFSS software will
4 Model healing, automatic feature automatically generate an appropriate, efficient
recognition, mesh resolution control
and accurate mesh for solving the problem
and fault-tolerant meshing for CAD
import using the proven finite element method. With
4 Low-, medium- and higher-order basis HFSS technology the physics defines the mesh,
functions not the other way around. HFSS software
4 Direct and iterative matrix solvers has links to the ANSYS Mechanical and
(64-bit capability)
ANSYS® DesignXplorer™ tools, allowing
4 Eigenmode matrix solver (64-bit
capability) users to perform comprehensive multiphysics
4 Generalized multi-mode port analyses and optimization studies. Engineers
definitions including lossy and Floquet rely on HFSS technology to design high-speed
ports components, including on-chip embedded
4 Auto-assign for terminal-driven ports passives, IC packages, PCB interconnects and Coupled thermoelectric simulation of an IC
4 Multiple incident field sources metallization structure performed in the
high-frequency components such as antennas,
including small current loop, dipoles ANSYS Workbench environment; simulation
and arbitrary plane waves RF/microwave components and biomedical performed with ANSYS Multiphysics
devices. technology
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ANSYS® Emag™ software, an add-on module for ANSYS Mechanical software, addresses Solution Data
analysis needs for applications that require low-frequency electromagnetics strongly coupled 4S-parameters (single-ended, differ-
ential, de-embedded, renormalized)
to the mechanics, such as microelectromechanical devices (MEMS), induction heating and
4Far-field calculation (2-D, 3-D, gain,
charged particle tracing. angular beam width)
4Port mode and impedance calculation
ANSYS® Multiphysics™ software contains all the features of the ANSYS Emag product by 2-D-eigenmode solver fields
plus a high-frequency full-wave solver and many other physics capabilities within the 4SAR calculation
ANSYS® Workbench™ environment. ANSYS Multiphysics software is ideal for the evaluation 4Mode conversion
4Material losses, radiation losses
of coupled physics prevalent in electromechanical devices such as electromagnetic-thermal
and electromagnetic–thermal–structural coupling. Equivalent Circuit Models
4Nexxim, HSPICE®, Cadence®
Applications Virtuoso® Spectre® Circuit Simulator
and MATLAB® compatible
Electromechanical Design
Maxwell software is used for electromagnetic field analysis including magnetic transient with Data Display/Result Visualization
motion, AC electromagnetic, magnetostatic, transient electric field and electrostatic/current 4S-, Y-, Z-parameter matrix
flow analysis. Maxwell provides accurate solutions for field parameters such as force, torque, 4Plots
capacitance, inductance, resistance and impedance along with the ability to visualize electro- • 2-D/3-D Cartesian/polar plots,
Smith charts and data tables
magnetic fields. Applications include motors and alternators, sensors, rotating and linear
• Overlay measurement data
actuators, power generators, transformers, transmission lines, bus bars, magnetic recording • Copy vector graphics to clipboard
heads and other electromechanical devices. • Display trace characteristics, markers,
delta markers and X markers
A key feature in Maxwell software is the ability to generate high-fidelity, equivalent circuit • Copy and paste of plot definition or
models for use in Simplorer multi-domain system simulation software. This creates a data from one report to another
• Library of report templates: create
powerful electromagnetic-based design flow that enables users to combine complex circuits
templates from reports, vice versa
with accurate, physics-based component models to design complete high-performance 4Port surface characteristic impedance
electromechanical and power electronic systems. This powerful multi-domain design 4Differential S-parameter, TDR display
approach allows engineers to accurately model, simulate and validate component, circuit 43-D static and animated field plots on
and system-level performance. any surface
• Current, electric field, magnetic field
• Radiation pattern, emissions test
High-Speed/High-Frequency Electronic Design 4Vector display, magnitude display
Engineers and designers rely on the accuracy, capacity and performance of HFSS 4Ranged functions – extract calcula-
software to design on-chip embedded passives, IC packages, PCB interconnects, antennas, tions such as maximum, minimum and
RF/microwave components and biomedical devices. With HFSS software, engineers average from a plot or dataset
extract S-, Y-, Z-parameters, visualize 3-D electromagnetic fields and emissions and
generate Full-Wave SPICE TM compatible models to evaluate signal quality.
Engineers use HFSS software for radio frequency (RF) and microwave applications such as
the design of high-frequency components and circuits found in the transmitter and receiver
portions of communication systems, radar systems, satellites and cellular telephones.
Additionally, HFSS software is used to evaluate electromagnetic interference between
multiple connectors, transmission lines and vias on printed circuit boards (PCBs) and
high-speed components used in computer servers and storage devices, multimedia PCs,
entertainment systems and telecom systems.
A key feature within HFSS software is the ability to generate high-fidelity equivalent circuit
models for use in Nexxim® high-performance circuit simulation software from Ansoft for
time- and frequency-domain applications.
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