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News Release from: Ansoft Europe | Subject: version 9 of HFSST
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 16 June 2003
Component Design Tool Gets Update
Ansoft has announced the availability of, and Field Application Engineer (FAE) support for, version 9 of HFSST: the 3D electromagnetic (EM) tool for high-frequency and high-speed component design.
Ansoft Corporation Europe has announced the immediate availability of, and Field Application Engineer (FAE) support for, version 9 of HFSST: the industry standard 3D electromagnetic (EM) tool for high-frequency and high-speed component design New to version 9 are enhanced automation capabilities and the Ansoft Desktop: an intuitive graphical user interface that debuted earlier this year with the launch of Ansoft Designer
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 27 Apr 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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HFSST v9 also features a re-architected design hierarchy that allows all projects to contain multiple designs - with each representing a unique geometry.
In addition, models created in HFSST v9 now have complete construction histories.
This enables the editing of any of the construction steps and also means that model dimensions can be assigned parameters.
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Charles Blackwood, Sales Manager of Ansoft Corporation Europe, said: "When Ansoft first brought EM-base software to the world of microwave and high speed component design in the early 1990s, HFSST transformed component development from a crude 'trial and error' process to one of modelling with accurate, computer-based virtual prototypes.
With HFSST v9, high-frequency and high-speed digital component design has made another staggering leap forward." Blackwood went on to say that version 9 of HFSST represents Ansoft's most revolutionary enhancements to the tool to date, adding: "The software's highly integrated architecture, improved automation and new features all enhance, dramatically, the designer's productivity." HFSST v9 allows for complete 3D geometry generation, within the Ansoft Desktop environment, and also the import of existing designs originated in either a 2D EDA layout tool or a 3D mechanical CAD package: 2D designs can be imported as DXF or GDSII files; and 3D designs can be imported as SAT, STEP and IGES files: as the solid-modelling engine within HFSST v9 is the industry standard ACIS v8 kernel.
For the highest level of integration into a design flow, designs can be imported/exported, via AnsoftLinks, from/to a number of EDA tools including Cadence Allegro, APD and Virtuoso; Mentor Graphics Board Station; and Synopsys Encore.
"The enhanced graphics in HFSST v9's solid-modelling capabilities include geometric object translucency and the method of selecting and displaying objects is both intuitive and efficient," continued Blackwood.
"Objects may be selected by clicking on them in the solid-modelling window or through an associated history tree." As for HFSST v9's analysis capabilities, the user may generate analyses with varying accuracy levels, adaptively refined at select frequencies.
Any number of solution setup specifications may be present within each design and all may be launched as one analysis or as separate analyses.
In addition, the general reports available within HFSST v9 can plot frequency-swept data and parametric-swept responses in the form of S-parameter results, characteristic impedance and propagation constants, and X and Y parameters.
Blackwood concluded: "We're very excited about version 9 of HFSST, there really is no other 3D EM design and analysis tool like it on the market.
Plus, as with all our tools, Ansoft is pleased to offer the expertise of its experienced FAEs.?.
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