Ansoft Releases ePhysics v2; New Release Provides Dynamic-Link Co-Simulation of Thermal and Stress Analysis With HFSS and Maxwell 3D.PITTSBURGH -- Ansoft Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ANST ANST Association of Neuropsychology Students in Training ANST After Negative Skin Test ) today announced the immediate availability of ePhysics(TM) v2. This latest version enhances ePhysics' 3D steady-state thermal, transient thermal and linear stress analyses coupling to 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 (TM) and Maxwell(R) 3D with dynamic-link co-simulation. The new capability allows engineers to simulate heating, stress and deformation consequences of high- and low-frequency electromagnetic fields. ePhysics v2 responds to the market demand to have an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to electrical component design, essential for devices operating under high power, faster data rates and reduced physical size, where thermal and mechanical effects need to be evaluated due to their influence on the overall performance. The ePhysics user interface, including design management front-end, 3D modeler, parametric control, simulation set-up and post-processing interfaces, have been migrated to the Ansoft desktop concept shared by HFSS and Maxwell 3D. Engineers can easily account for the thermal and mechanical quantities that significantly contribute to a design's overall performance directly within the familiar, easy-to-use, Ansoft environment. Coupling ePhysics with Maxwell 3D provides the cross-disciplinary analysis required in the design of electromechanical devices. Typical applications include the analysis of electric machines, power-generation systems, transformers, microelectromechanical systems See MEMS. (MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) Tiny mechanical devices that are built onto semiconductor chips and are measured in micrometers. In the research labs since the 1980s, MEMS devices began to materialize as commercial products in the mid-1990s. ) and solenoids. "Now that ePhysics v2 can be coupled directly to Maxwell, we are able to assess the thermal and stress behavior of magnetic components very conveniently," said Richard Osman, PE, principal product engineer, Siemens Energy & Automation Inc. "This advanced capability from Ansoft has greatly improved our ability to validate and optimize our designs before building hardware." HFSS with ePhysics is vital for applications such as high-speed packages, antennas, monolithic microwave integrated circuits MMICs, or Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits, are a type of integrated circuit (IC) devices that operate at microwave frequencies (1 GHz to 300 GHz). They typically perform functions such as microwave mixing, power amplification, low noise amplification, and high (MMICs), high-power microwave devices, military and broadcast communications and biological heating with radio frequency (RF) sources. These analyses include high-power, temperature-induced stress and size changes of design components. New features include: --New Ansoft desktop interface --Dynamic-link coupling with Maxwell 3D and HFSS, which includes automatic mapping of power loss and force densities integrated with adaptive meshing technology --Multiple design couplings that may be "daisy chained" in the process of creating complex applications --Maxwell Transient - Thermal Transient --HFSS Transient Sequence - Thermal Transient --Nonlinear thermal properties (conductivity vs. Temp) --Anisotropic stress solution --64-bit solvers available ePhysics is available immediately for PC and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) platforms. To learn more, visit www.ansoft.com/ephysics. Editors: To download three high-resolution ePhysics images and captions, please go to ftp://ftp.ansoft.com/techsup/download/web/primg/ephysics_v2.zip. About Ansoft Ansoft is a leading developer of high-performance electronic design automation (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. ) 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 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), automotive electronic systems and power electronics. 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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