Optimetrics: Optimization For High-Performance Electronic Design
Ansoft CorporationOptimetrics is a versatile, optional software program that adds parametric, optimization, sensitivity, and statistical analysis capabilities to HFSS, Q3D Extractor and Maxwell 3D. Optimetrics automates the design-optimization process for high-performance electronic devices by quickly identifying optimal values for design parameters that satisfy user-specified constraints.
Optimetrics: Optimization For High-Performance Electronic Design
Optimetrics is a versatile, optional software program that adds parametric, optimization, sensitivity, and statistical analysis capabilities to HFSS, Q3D Extractor and Maxwell 3D. Optimetrics automates the design-optimization process for high-performance electronic devices by quickly identifying optimal values for design parameters that satisfy user-specified constraints.
Coupled to Ansoft electromagnetic-field simulation software, Optimetrics delivers optimized designs that favorably impact the bottom line.
Features:
- Parametric analysis
- User-specified range and number of steps for parameters
- Automatic analysis of parameter permutations
- Distributed Analysis (cost option)
- Automated parser management across multiple hardware platforms and reassembly of data for parametric tables and studies
- Optimization
- User-selectable cost functions and goal objective
- Quasi-Newton method
- Sequential Nonlinear Programming (SNLP)
- Integer-only Sequential Nonlinear Programming
- Automatic analysis of parameter variants until optimum goal obtained
- User-selectable cost functions and goal objective
- Sensitivity analysis
- Design variations to determine sensitivities:
- Manufacturing tolerances
- Material properties
- Design variations to determine sensitivities:
- Tuning
- User-controllable slide-bar for real time tuning display and results
- Statistical analysis
- Design performance distribution versus parameter values
Optimetrics: Optimization For High-Performance Electronic Design



