INTEGRATED Engineering Software, developer of hybrid simulation tools for electromagnetic, thermal and structural design analysis, releases CHRONOS, its new time domain solver and high frequency tool for modeling and simulating 3D RF and microwave applications. The software has been introduced to address the challenge of the modeling and simulation of many RF applications and antennas in terms of speed, required memory, and accuracy.

By adding CHRONOS, INTEGRATED now offers a complete suite of electromagnetic tools, ranging from low frequency to light waves, from static to complete transient solutions. INTEGRATED’s software programs can be seamlessly coupled to thermal analysis for an even-more thorough development. In terms of variety of solvers, INTEGRATED now has added the Finite Difference Time Domain method; this is an addition to the Boundary Element and Finite Element solvers currently available in the company’s software packages.

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CHORONOS is well suited for the analysis and design of RF and antenna applications including:

•Near field and far field applications

•Planar microwave and antenna structures

•Wire antennas

•UWB antennas

•Microwave circuits, waveguides and coaxial structures.

Its interface enables design engineers to model the geometry and assigns its physical properties, providing fast and accurate results in both time domain and frequency domain. Time domain results can be transformed and displayed with different parameters in the frequency domain using the powerful automatic post processing tools. The move from Frequency Domain techniques into the Finite Difference Time-Domain (FDTD), combined with the parallelization of the program, brings huge time savings.

“This is the first new addition to our simulation software in years and we believe that it fills a gap in the engineers modeling tools,” comments Bruce Klimpke, INTEGRATED Engineering Software Technical Director. “We are also taking a different route with the further development of CHRONOS and inviting our customers to suggest sectors where this program could prove a useful tool. Then we will look at how it can be adjusted to meet that need.”