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Automatic Adaptive Meshing

Automatic adaptive meshing techniques require you to specify only geometry, material properties and the desired output. The meshing process uses a highly robust volumetric meshing technique, and includes a multithreading capability that reduces the amount of memory used and accelerates time to solution. This proven technology eliminates the complexity of building and refining a finite element mesh and makes advanced numerical analysis practical for all levels of your organization.

Optimized User Environment

The full-featured 3-D solid modeler and layout interface enables you to work in a layout design flow, or to import and edit 3-D ������ýapp geometry.

HFSS 3-D Modeler: The 3-D interface enables you to model complex 3-D geometry or import ������ýapp geometry for simulation of high-frequency components, such as antennas, RF/microwave components and biomedical devices. You can extract scattering matrix parameters (S,Y, Z parameters), visualize 3-D electromagnetic fields (near- and far-field), and generate ANSYS Full-Wave SPICE models that link to circuit simulations.

HFSS 3-D Layout: HFSS 3-D Layout is an optimized interface for layered geometry of PCBs, IC packages or on-chip embedded passives. Geometry is assembled and rendered in a 2-D design environment; however, all effects are rigorously simulated, including 3-D features such as trace thickness and etching, bondwires, solder bumps and solder balls. Layout primitives such as stack-up dimensions, anti-pad radius, trace widths or thicknesses can be easily parameterized in the design environment. HFSS 3-D Layout includes advanced phi meshing technology that is optimized for meshing silicon substrates, redistribution layers, electronic packages and PCBs.

3-D Components

HFSS can create 3-D EM simulation components and integrate them into larger assemblies and systems, cutting design time and fostering collaboration while protecting IP. These 3-D components can include antennas, connectors, phased arrays and highly integrated chip-package-board systems that, when utilized in HFSS, create a complete and accurate description of the devices. This capability is especially useful for sharing detailed device models within an organization and between supplier and system integrators.

Simulation-ready 3-D components can be created by an expert component designer, stored in library files, and then easily added to larger system designs. You can optionally encrypt and hide design information in the 3-D component, including geometry, materials and other critical IP, and then share the component throughout the supply chain. The shared component’s behavior is fully captured in the subsequent HFSS simulation without compromising on accuracy. Sharing encrypted components enables system integrators to capture the complete electromagnetic interaction between a component, such as a supplier-provided antenna, and the installed platform.

Advanced Phased Array Antenna Simulation

ANSYS HFSS can simulate phased-array antennas with all electromagnetic effects, including element-to-element coupling, embedded element patterns, scan input impedance and near- or far-field radiation. Infinitely large and finite-sized arrays can be simulated efficiently by exploiting the periodic nature of the geometry. For infinite arrays, one or more antenna elements are placed within a unit cell with periodic boundary conditions on the surrounding walls to mirror fields creating an infinite number of elements in two directions. Per-element scan impedance and embedded element radiation patterns can be computed, including all mutual coupling effects. The method is especially useful for predicting array blind zones that can occur under certain scan conditions. The finite-sized array simulation technology leverages HPC domain decomposition to obtain a fast solution for large finite-sized arrays. This technology makes it possible to perform complete array analysis to predict all mutual coupling, scan impedance, element patterns, array patterns and array edge effects.

High-Performance Computing

ANSYS Electronics HPC goes well beyond simple hardware acceleration to deliver groundbreaking numerical solvers and HPC methodologies optimized for multicore machines, while being scalable to take advantage of full compute cluster power.

ANSYS RF Option

The ANSYS RF Option combined with HFSS creates an end-to-end high-performance RF simulation flow. Its features include a harmonic balance circuit simulation, 2.5-D planar method of moments solver, filter synthesis and more. It also includes EMIT, a unique multifidelity approach for predicting RF cosite interference to identify root-cause EMI issues in complex RF environments.

EMIT

• A complete RF co-site and antenna coexistence analysis environment
• Automated diagnostics for rapid root-cause analysis
• Quick assessment and comparison of potential mitigation measures
• RF component library
• Multifidelity parametric radio models
• Antenna-to-Antenna coupling models

Circuit Analyses

• Linear
• Transient
• DC analysis with multiple continuation options
• Multitone harmonic balance

Shooting Method

• Oscillator analysis

Autonomous Plus Driven Sources Option

• Time varying noise and phase noise
• Envelope

Multicarrier Modulation Support

• Load pull and model support
• Periodic transfer function

ANSYS SI Option

The ANSYS SI option is ideal for analyzing signal integrity, power integrity and EMI caused by shrinking timing and noise margins in ICs, packages, connectors and PCBs. The ANSYS SI option adds transient circuit analysis to HFSS, which enables you to create high-speed channel designs that include the driving circuitry as well as the channel. The driving circuitry can be transistor level, IBIS-based or ideal sources. Users can select from a variety of analysis types:

• Linear network analysis
• Transient analysis
• QuickEye and VerifEye analyses for fast eye generation in high-speed channel design, bathtub curves, jitter and eye masks
• Monte Carlo analysis supporting Spectre® and HSPICE® functionality
• DC analysis with automated convergence
• Dynamic links with ANSYS Q3D Extractor and ANSYS SIwave
• IBIS-AMI analysis and model support

Advanced Broadband SPICE Model Generation

ANSYS Full-Wave SPICE, included in ANSYS HFSS, provides frequency-dependent SPICE models for accurate time-domain simulation in time-domain circuit analysis tools. ANSYS Full-Wave SPICE models can be created for use with ANSYS Nexxim, HSPICE®, Spectre® RF and MATLAB®. Full-Wave SPICE produces highly accurate, high-bandwidth SPICE models at the touch of a button. This capability enables you to design electronic and communication components while taking gigahertz-frequency effects into account.

Radar Cross Section (RCS)