Ansoft Redefines High-Frequency and High-Speed Digital Design with the Introduction of HFSS v9.Business Editors PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 2003 Revolutionary 3D EM-based Design-Flow Automation Shortens High-Frequency Design-Cycle Time Ansoft Corporation (Nasdaq:ANST ANST Association of Neuropsychology Students in Training ANST After Negative Skin Test ) today announced a new version of HFSS HFSS High Frequency Structure Simulator HFSS High Fat, Salt and Sugar (food content) HFSS High-Frequency Sounder System HFSS High Frequency Simulator System HFSS High Frequency Sensor Subsystem , the electronic-design industry's standard software for 3D electromagnetic (EM) design and analysis. Thousands of engineers worldwide use HFSS to design leading-edge devices, such as radio frequency (RF) and microwave components, antennas and arrays, high-speed integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. (ICs), printed circuit boards (PCBs) and IC packages. HFSS significantly reduces engineering time while improving the performance and reducing the manufacturing cost of these devices. "Ansoft has done an incredible job with all of the enhancements in HFSS v9," said Bernard Schmanski, of BAE Systems BAE Systems British manufacturer of aircraft, missiles, avionics, naval vessels, and other aerospace and defense products. BAE Systems was formed (1999) from the merger of British Aerospace (BAe) with Marconi Electronic Systems. and HFSS v9 beta tester. "The increased functionality helps to simplify model generation and analysis, leading to a very positive overall experience." In today's demanding economy and highly competitive marketplace, companies must continually look for ways to improve productivity and time-to-market. The enhancements in HFSS v9 will provide RF/microwave and high-speed digital component engineers with the ability to enhance these metrics. In addition to its long-established accuracy, HFSS v9 provides impressive advances in design-flow efficiencies previously unavailable to these designers. "HFSS v9 provides unmatched precision in a powerful and intuitive environment for creating microwave, RF or high-speed digital components and systems," said Brad Brim, Ansoft's Product Marketing Manager for HFSS. "Advances in data management and design automation make v9 the most versatile electromagnetic design solution available." Integration All HFSS capabilities are integrated within the HFSS Desktop, an environment for complete support of 3D EM-based design. In addition to having the intuitive look and feel of Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. (R), the desktop features a graphical project tree that offers a familiar style of access to the continuous HFSS design flow. And with AnsoftLinks(TM), users can integrate HFSS into existing EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. and mechanical CAD (MCAD MCAD Microsoft Certified Application Developer MCAD Mechanical Computer Aided Design MCAD Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase (inherited metabolic disease) MCAD Minneapolis College of Art and Design ) design flows, with links to tools from Cadence(R), Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics, Inc (NASDAQ: MENT) is a US-based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation (EDA) for electrical engineering and electronics, as of 2004, ranked third in the EDA industry it helped create. (R), Synopsys(R) and Zuken(R). To integrate back into external design flows, accurate broadband circuit models are available to support HSpice(R), Spectre(R) RF, PSpice(R) or Ansoft's Maxwell(R) SPICE. Fully parametric circuit models also are available to support efficient high-frequency circuit design in Ansoft Designer(TM) and other circuit and system design tools. Automation The HFSS Desktop enables parametric design entry of all aspects of the design, from geometry and material properties, to analysis control and post-processing. The software's powerful solid-modeling capability, with its parametric nature and high-performance graphics, saves significant engineering time for design capture. Analysis setup is intuitive, and high-level controls ensure that desired results are obtained in a completely automated manner. With Ansoft's Optimetrics(TM), optimization and parametric sweeps are automated and are easily accessed from the same project tree within the desktop. These design techniques are augmented by sensitivity and statistical analyses, which automate design for manufacturing by applying the implicit parameterization of HFSS. Customization HFSS has several mechanisms that allow engineers to tailor the design flow to their organization's needs. Windows, dialog boxes A movable window that is displayed on screen in response to the user selecting a menu option. It provides the current status and available options for a particular feature in the program. , toolbars and even menu items may be user defined Any format, layout, structure or language that is developed by the user. through configurable defaults to support individual preferences. Users have flexible access to interface commands through the main menu, toolbars, the project tree and context-sensitive menus. Additionally, the customization and control of all aspects of HFSS is available through scripting via Visual Basic(R) and JavaScript(R). Scripting also supports a powerful macro recorder A program routine that converts menu selections and keystrokes into a macro. A user turns on the recorder, calls up a menu, selects a variety of options, turns the recorder off and assigns a key command to the macro. When the key command is pressed, the selections are executed. for non-programmers. This control may be used to define parameterized geometries, implement custom analysis flow or control design flow from start to finish. For a full list of HFSS v9 features, please visit www.hfss.com. Editors: If you'd like to use an HFSS v9 image that is suitable for your publication, go to ftp://ftp.ansoft.com/techsup/download/web/hfss9.zip to download a zip file (1) A file that contains one or more files that have been compressed into the ZIP format. Also called a "ZIP archive," "zipped file" or "zipped archive," the ZIP algorithm is the most popular compression method in use. Not Just the . that contains four high-resolution images and accompanying captions. HFSS, AnsoftLinks and Maxwell are trademarks of Ansoft Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. About Ansoft Ansoft is a leading developer of high-performance electronic design automation (EDA) software. Engineers use Ansoft software to design state-of-the-art electronic products, such as cellular phones, Internet-access devices, broadband networking components and systems, integrated circuits (ICs), printed circuit boards (PCBs), automotive electronic systems, power electronics, and fuel-cell technology. Ansoft markets its products worldwide through its own direct sales force and has comprehensive customer-support and training offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Asia, and Europe. For more information, please visit www.ansoft.com. |
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