CST STUDIO SUITE® 2013 introduced several new features – most notably, the new ribbon-based interface. The company is pleased to say that customer feedback has been positive, and their comments steered the development of Service Pack 3, which is currently being distributed through the Automatic Update System.

Alongside some fixes, the service packs also include several new features demanded by our customers. These features cover a range of applications, from PCBs and MIMO antenna arrays to accelerator cavities and low-frequency devices.

The main new features in the current service packs are:

  • CST MICROWAVE STUDIO®
    • Deformation sensitivity analysis in the eigenmode solver
    • Materials with time-dependent conductivity for the transient solver
    • Anisotropic thin-film materials in the GPU TLM solver
    • New weighting functions for MIMO (Farfield result template)
    • NFS export for frequency domain solver results
  • CST EM STUDIO®
    • Curved mesh elements in the magnetostatic, magnetoquasistatic and full wave LF solvers
  • CST PARTICLE STUDIO®
    • Particle interfaces in the GPU PIC solver
  • CST PCB STUDIO® and EDA simulation tools
    • Pull-up components
    • Import tools for Zuken CR-8000 layouts
  • CST DESIGN STUDIO™
    • New implementation of MOR/passivation/network extraction in the transient task to convert S-Parameter blocks into SPICE circuits