Design and simulation switch to Linux

The release of Nexxim and Ansoft Designer for Linux provides customers an alternative to the previously released Microsoft Windows versions.

Ansoft Corporation has released Nexxim v3 and Ansoft Designer v3 for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.3 and Sun Solaris 8 and 9 operating systems.

Nexxim is the company's circuit simulation software for high-performance IC design and signal-integrity analysis.

Ansoft Designer provides an integrated schematic and design management front-end for complex analogue, RF and mixed-signal applications.

The release of Nexxim and Ansoft Designer for Linux provides customers an alternative to the previously released Microsoft Windows versions and leverages the growing popularity of Linux as a viable engineering platform.

In addition to Linux support, Nexxim v3 adds phase and time-variant noise, autonomous source harmonic balance and seamless integration with Cadence ADE/Spectre RF.

Adding accurate phase and time-varying noise analyses to Nexxim is critical to the full characterisation of communication ICs.

The ability to include both driven and autonomous sources with a single harmonic-balance simulation dramatically expands the accuracy and detail with which complex transceiver circuits can be analysed.

Concurrently, Nexxim allows engineers developing large and complex analogue/RF designs to simulate accurate transistor-level time- and frequency-domain performance directly from within the Cadence ADE design framework, leveraging existing design-flow infrastructure, foundry models and circuit-related intellectual property.

Ansoft Designer v3 offers expanded solver on demand capability and new design-verification technology to speed the design process of RF systems and RF/analogue ICs and to increase the accuracy of signal-integrity studies.

With Ansoft Designer v3, engineers can capture high-frequency parasitic behaviour directly in their circuit simulation and apply that knowledge toward design optimisation and verification.

Moreover, extending the solver on demand technology to include HFSS, Ansoft's 3D full-wave electromagnetic-field simulation software, allows engineers to perform parametric design optimisation with gigahertz-accurate full-wave extraction.

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