EM software aids antenna modelling

Optimising the design and signal characteristics of radio and microwave transmitters has now been made significantly quicker and easier with the launch of Micro-stripes V6.0.

Optimising the design and signal characteristics of radio and microwave transmitters has now been made significantly quicker and easier with the launch of Micro-stripes V6.0.

The latest edition of the leading electromagnetic (EM) analysis software from Flomerics now features a number of user-friendly and automatic modelling functions.

Results and visualisation tools now form part of the software's command window so enabling new and experienced users to fully exploit simulation results without leaving this area.

Furthermore, an upgraded history bar allows users to quickly modify and optimise their designs.

Other time saving features include auto-lumping, where small cells are combined in areas of the models where they are not required to capture the electromagnetic behaviour, resulting in significant reductions in simulation run times; Auto equivalent surface setting used to easily allow far and near field quantities to be computed without increasing the grid size; and the automatic defaulting for graph and other visualisation tools.

The addition of EM output monitor points outside the gridded test area saves considerable computational time by reducing the size of models and is particularly useful to engineers when analysing radiation at set distances such as 3 or 10m, as specified for Bluetooth-enabled mobile devices and key EMC emissions standards.

Upgrades in several key areas have also led to an increase in the accuracy of the results generated.

In particular, developments to the input and output port characteristics and simplified dialogue for field excitations such as ports and plane waves have significantly improved results relating to the characteristics of these areas.

Commenting on the launch of Micro-stripes V6.0, Rachid Aitmehdi, Head of Flomerics' Electromagnetic Division, said: "Micro-stripes V6.0 makes designing antennas, RF and microwave components far simpler and less time consuming for design engineers.

It puts sophisticated analysis tools in the hands of design engineers rather than software experts.

The enhancements and upgrades to Micro-stripes have been implemented to improve the designers' visualisation of the results and to help them quickly find improved solutions to design issues they face.

We have reacted to comments from our customers and spent a considerable time taking the laborious decisions away from the user, while maintaining all the flexibility that our tool has for the expert".

Micro-stripes can now import and export files in DXF1, STL2 and Step3 formats.

This is in addition to IGES4, SAT5 and GEOM6 CAD formats supported within older versions.

This CAD translation capability is included as standard with the product.

It also supports multiple processor machines when the hardware is available to further increase productivity by reducing simulation time.

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