This latest release boasts new load-pull and antenna- and radar-specific features, as well as ease-of-use improvements, speed enhancements and third-party integration flows for improved stability analysis and design rule checking/layout versus schematic.
Features include Microwave Office/ Analog Office, the ability to view measured data and design matching networks using swept load-pull files, APLAC tuning and optimisation speed enhancements , improved simulation control and schematic editing, layout viewing and layout editing improvements.
Analyst and AXIEM enable an easier 3D EM setup and an improved 3D editor experience; geometry cleanup and standard for the exchange of product model data (STEP) import for Analyst . There is anisotropic dielectric materials support for AXIEM .
Faster and more accurate simulation results are delivered due to threading, frequency sweep algorithm improvements, meshing options/refinement enhancements and a remote simulation option. Visualisation of the impact of circuits on antenna patterns is also avaiulable.
A Visual System Simulator (VSS) offers an enhanced phased-array block and simplified Microwave Office consistent VSS sources, bidirectional blocks for more readily managing both transmit and receive systems. There is a RF models auto-configuration option for phased-array block, WLAN 802.11ac library, enhanced radar library and more.