Zeland To Exhibit Latest Versions Of IE3D And Fidelity Software At MTT-S

Fremont, CA -- Zeland will be showcasing the latest versions of its IE3D method of moments (MoM) based electromagnetic (EM) software and FIDELITY finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) based EM simulator at the MTT-S show, June 5 - 7 at the Hawaii Convention Center.

Zeland's latest versions of IE3D 12.1 and FIDELITY 5.2 feature:

• IE3D FastEM Design Kit for real-time full-wave EM tuning, optimization and synthesis: IE3D FastEM Design Kit allows you to parameterize both planar and 3D structures, perform high accuracy and efficiency IE3D simulations on the structure, and extract the FastEM signature from the simulation results. The FastEM signature allows you to perform real-time EM tuning, optimization and synthesis.

• High Performance and Robust Network Distributed EM Simulation and Optimizations: The new implementation ZDS and ZDM makes use of new technology for distributing and management of network EM simulations and optimizations. It helps distributed and multi-license IE3D users to improve IE3D simulation efficiency by a factor of 10. The IE3D/ZDS/ZDM 12.1 allows fast, robust and secured distributed EM Simulations, FastEM for parameter sweeping EM simulations and distributed EM Optimizations.

• Multi-fold speed improvement and multi-CPU support for much improved efficiency: The speed of IE3D engine is improved by a big factor even without multi-CPU support. With multi-CPUs, the IE3D 12 engine will be flying and you can finish your jobs much sooner in higher quality.

• Equation-based schematic-layout editor with Boolean operations for easy and flexible geometry editing and parameterization: IE3DLibrary is further improved. It allows you to create complicated layouts with parameterized objects in a schematic way. All dimensions of the objects are equation-based. Thanks to the implementation of Boolean objects and void objects, users can create structures beyond the coverage of the limited object types available in the library. Users can use Boolean objects to create any shape and use void objects to combine objects together for very sophisticated structures.

• Lumped element equivalent circuit automatic extraction and optimization for convenient circuit designs: Lumped element equivalent circuits are needed for modern RFIC designs and signal integrity. IE3D 12 simulations yield the frequency dependent lumped element equivalent circuit models automatically. Users can visualize the parameters. Users can even optimize the circuit parameters to achieve desired goals.

• Improved integration into Microwave Office from Applied Wave Research: The EM Socket for IE3D integrated into MWO is further improved to provide stable seamless IE3D integration into MWO.

• Introduction and Implementation of Conjugate Match Factor (CMF) for RFID design: IE3D and FIDELITY are excellent for RFID designs. CMF allows us to judge how good an RFDID antenna is when the chip impedance and the basic configuration are given. An article on using Zeland tools for RFID design is included in the Documents folder of the Zeland Products.

There are many other improvements on the IE3D 12.1 and Fidelity 5.2 over the previous versions. Visit Zeland at booth #700 during MTT-S for more information and the free 45-day evaluation.

SOURCE: Mentor Graphics, formerly Zeland Software, Inc.