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 Flomerics will showcase the latest version of its Micro-Stripes electromagnetic analysis software at European Microwave Week 2002 in Milan.
Micro-Stripes V6.0 makes optimising the design of antennas, radiating structures, RF and microwave devices significantly quicker and easier for design engineers and is the first commercial EM simulation tool to harness the power of 64bit parallel processing, allowing models requiring more than 2Gbyte of memory (the maximum addressable memory capability for a 32bit processor) to be analysed on machines with multiple 64bit processors.
The software has already shown its potential within the automotive and defence industries where, even with Flomerics' highly efficient TLM (transmission line matrix) analysis engine, the restrictions of 32bit architectures were starting to impose limitations on the size of extremely complex models that could be solved.
The move to a 64bit architecture increases the limit of an EM analysis from 2Gbyte (with 32bit architecture) to over nine million terabytes, an effectively limitless model size.
Analysing a multielement array antenna in its installed environment, such as on a top of a vehicle or aircraft, becomes feasible allowing engineers to gain an insight on the influence of these structures on the overall RF performance of the antenna system.
Additional improvements within Micro-Stripes V6.0 mean that the results and visualisation tools now form part of the software's Command window, so enabling new and experienced users to fully exploit simulation results without leaving this area.
Furthermore, an upgraded history bar allows users to quickly modify and optimise their designs.
Other time saving features new to Micro-Stripes V6.0 include auto-lumping, where small cells are combined in areas of the models where they are not required to capture the electromagnetic behaviour, resulting in significant reductions in simulation run times; Auto equivalent surface setting used to easily allow far and near field quantities to be computed automatically; and the automatic defaulting for graphs and other visualisation tools.
The addition of EM output monitor points outside the gridded test area saves considerable computational time by reducing the size of models and is particularly useful to engineers when analysing radiation at set distances such as 3 or 10m, as specified for Bluetooth-enabled Mobile devices and key EMC emissions standards.
Commenting on Micro-stripes V6.0, Rachid Aitmehdi, Head of Flomerics' Electromagnetic Division, said, "Micro-stripes V6.0 makes designing antennas, RF and microwave components far simpler and less time-consuming for design engineers.
The move to 64bit architecture effectively gives access to limitless memory resources.
When combined with the efficiencies that Flomerics' TLM modelling engine gives over other methods, the 64bit version of Micro-Stripes increases significantly the complexity of the EM analyses that can be undertaken by our clients.
Furthermore the enhancements and upgrades to Micro-stripes have improved the designers' visualisation of the results and helped them to quickly find improved solutions to any design issues they face".
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