Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Fluent | Subject: Icewave 1.0
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 21 October 2005
EM modelling works
alongside thermal design
Icewave solves broadband electromagnetic emission and interference problems and generates both transient and frequency-domain results in a single run
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Fluent, the worldwide leader in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), announces the immediate release of Icewave 1.0, a three dimensional time-domain full-wave electromagnetic modelling software package. Along with the industry-leading thermal design software Icepak, Icewave enables thermal and electromagnetic compatibility and interference (EMC/EMI) cosimulation.
This capability allows designers of high-performance electronics systems to dramatically reduce the time required for EMC/EMI design and verification by simulating electronic products in a virtual environment.
Using a robust time-domain 3D full-wave finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) solver, Icewave solves broadband electromagnetic emission and interference problems and generates both transient and frequency-domain results in a single run.
The fast near- to far-field translation gives accurate far-field emission results that are often measured in EMC anechoic chambers.
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Upgrade for EMI analysis
The latest version of Icewave incorporates enhanced model building capabilities and radiation computation for EMC/EMI analysis of electronic systems
Package analysis expands to next-generation ICs
Fluent has released a new version of its Icemax software, claimed to be the world's fastest circuit extraction tool for analysing advanced IC package designs
Icewave is designed to be used over a broad range of EMC/EMI problems that include enclosure shielding, multilayer high-speed PCB decoupling, multilayer high-speed PCB radiation, aperture radiation, heatsink radiated emission, multi-boards in backplane, as well as cabling and grounding.
With a simple, intuitive and easy to use CAD-like interface, Icewave allows users to build geometric models and setup EM simulations quickly.
The output of Icewave includes S, Y, Z parameters, monitored fields, surface currents on conductor surfaces and radiated far fields at given distances.
Advanced visualisation capabilities such as time-domain field animation, frequency-domain current distribution, 3D far-field radiation visualisation and EMC plots help users quickly prototype EMC/EMI designs of electronic products based on numerical simulations in the design flow.
Icewave also shares geometry models with Icepak, the world's leading thermal analysis tool, for concurrent EM-thermal analysis to satisfy the ever-increasing demands on time to market for electronic products.
Icewave can import MCAD data in standard STEP, SAT, and IGES formats and Pro/E PRT and ASM files using Icepro.
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