Supported Formats

Discrete Model

• NAS, ASCII STL and IGES file formats

Analytical Model

• SAT (*.sat) - ACIS geometry solid model files
• IGES (*.igs) - Industry standard Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES) files
• STEP (*.stp, *.step) - Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data (STEP) files
• Parasolid (*.x_t, *.x_b) - Parasolid files
• CATIA V4 (*.model) - CATIA V4 files
• CATIA V5 (*.CATPart) - CATIA V5 files

Computational Cores

Numerical Methods

• Method of Moments for 3D electrostatic and electrodynamic problems
• Physical Optics method for very high frequencies

Calculation Domains, Objects and Sources

• Frequency and Time Domain calculations


• Thin metallic and dielectric surfaces
• Thin wires (coated and not coated, representing metal strips on surface of dielectric)
• Arbitrary shaped dielectric objects (Surface Integral approach) partially covered with metal
• Dielectric layers with small curvature modelled using Green Function approach
• Simple RLC loads
• Port on wire segment for calculation of scattering matrix
• Non-radiated network objects (TL, S-matrix from Touchstone)
• Physical properties of ground and system environment


• Voltage/Current source on wire segment
• Impressed Current source
• Plane Wave source
• Electrical/Magnetic Dipole source
• Radiation Pattern source
• Near Field Radiation source

Calculation Options

• Adaptive Frequency Sampling for effective frequency domain calculations
• Matrix Partitioning option for optimization calculations
• Multi-Excitation option for optimization calculations
• S, Z, Y matrix calculations for multiport systems
• Recalculate and Continue options
• Normalization of power
• Out-of-core solution for large problems

Parallel Calculations

• Parallel computational core
• Optimized calculations for small problems

Graphical User Interface

General

• Construction of computational model from separate components (objects)
• Full control of computational core
• User defined views
• Customization of shortcut keys

Pre-processing

• Geometry-Model-Mesh modes for preparation of computational model
• Definition of geometrical and physical properties via variables
• Definition of frequency dependent physical properties
• Large array of primitives for model creation
• Boolean operations
• Object transformation operations
• Parametrized library
• Automatic and manual control of mesh
• Support of multi-area request for Near Field Distribution
• Validation of computational model
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Post-processing

• 2D post-processing
  • Current, voltage and charge on wire segments
  • Current and charge on triangles
  • Calculation Error estimation on triangles
  • Source data (impedance, admittance, S11, VSWR, power ballance etc.)
  • Near Electric and Magnetic field in observation points
  • Far Field pattern for fixed directional angle
  • S, Z, Y matrix observation (Touchstone data)
  • Linear, polar and Smith chart data representation
  • Linear, logarithmic and dB scales support
  • IFFT option for fast data transformation to Time Domain
  • Import/export data from/to 2D plot
  • Export data to MATLAB
• 3D post-processing
  • Current and charge distribution on surface and wire segments
  • Near Electric and Magnetic field distribution on arbitrary surface
  • Analysis of near field distribution based on defined reference level
  • Calculation Error distribution on surface
  • Arrow plot for current and field distribution
  • Far Field pattern

OS Compatibility and Licensing

Graphical User Interface

• Microsoft Windows Platform
  • Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows Server 2008

Computational core (32-bit and 64-bit)

• Microsoft Windows Platform
  • Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows Server 2008


• Linux Platform
  • Asianux 3.0
  • Debian 4.0
  • Fedora 10
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5
  • SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9, 10, 11
  • TurboLinux 11
  • Ubuntu 9.04


• 32-bit cores can only address 2 GBytes of RAM per process
• 64-bit cores can address more than 2 GBytes of RAM per process

Licensing

• Hardware based license
• Floating license via single or redundant licence server configurations
• CPU and CPU core based licensing for computational core
• Fully functional student version with limitation for calculation of large problems
• Free 45 days evaluation license