HyperWorks® 14.0
Altair’s HyperWorks® 14.0 open architecture CAE simulation platform includes several new products, feature enhancements, updated functionalities and licensing methods to help users. Key highlights: expanded optimization and nonlinear solver capabilities; accelerated meshing, assembly and graphics; plus new tools and products in the Altair Partner Alliance. This release also introduces parts and assemblies in HyperMesh that directly correspond to those in the CAD and PDM world.
Altair Engineering Inc.
www.altair.com
ADIsimRF 2.0
ADI released the newest version of ADIsimRF, its popular RF signal chain simulator. ADIsimRF 2.0 significantly expands the tools capabilities. Signal chains with up to 50 stages can now be simulated. Frequency, power and gain sweeps are supported and results can be plotted and exported to excel. The component library has been expanded to approximately 500 devices and support has been added for RF DACs and wideband transceivers. Device selection is now easier with the addition of a device selection wizard. Download today at www.analog.com/adisimrf.
Analog Devices Inc.
www.analog.com
App of Knowledge
AR RF/Microwave’s mobile app is available as a free download from Apple iTunes and Google Play. This application is a quick and easy tool to access a variety of content from AR. The home screen icons allow easy navigation to view basic and full product descriptions, app notes, AR’s literature library, YouTube videos, contact information, social media activity and more—all from your mobile device. To download the app, visit www.arww-rfmicro.com/html/ar-moblie-app.asp.
AR RF/Microwave Instrumentation
www.arworld.us
Rotordynamics Module
The latest update of the COMSOL® software product suite includes the new Rotordynamics Module, which will aid engineers in analyzing vibrations due to centrifugal forces and other gyroscopic effects in rotating machinery. This new product will be used to ensure that rotor vibrations are contained within acceptable design limits by providing functionality for evaluating critical speed, whirl and bearings. This module will be of particular interest to those working with the design of turbines, turbochargers, electrical machinery and pumps in the automobile, marine, aerospace, energy and household appliance industries.
COMSOL Inc.
www.comsol.com
RF Tools App
The RF Tools app from HUBER+SUHNER is a free tool that can be downloaded in English and Chinese on Apple’s app store now. RF Tools shows the relation between RF specific values such as impedance, wavelength, return loss (VSWR) and signal delay—including their conversion. It includes products such as connectors, cables, cable assemblies, antennas, lightning protectors and passive components, and finds your nearest branch and contact person.
HUBER+SUHNER AG
www.hubersuhner.com
Filter Wizard
K&L Microwave’s Filter Wizard® synthesis and selection tool streamlines identification of RF and microwave filters meeting customer requirements across a large portion of K&L’s standard product offerings. Filter Wizard® accelerates user progress from specification to RFQ over an ever-increasing range of response types, bandwidths and unloaded Q values. Provide the application with desired specifications, and the software returns a list of products that match, placing response graphs, outline drawings and downloadable s-parameters at your fingertips. Visit www.klfilterwizard.com via computer or mobile device to get started.
K&L Microwave
www.klfilterwizard.com=
Data Analytics
Keysight’s N8844A Data Analytics Web Service Software addresses designers’ needs to analyze their test results more quickly and intuitively. It enables them to gain insight into reference designs, understanding design constraints and their impact on system margins. The new software provides the latest data on a histogram, can create custom graphs, data filtering/graphing and more. In combination with the visualization capabilities, the software enables users to make faster design decisions and reduces time to market.
Keysight Technologies Inc.
www.keysight.com/find/data-analytics
Microwave Calculator
Mini-Circuits’ Microwave Calculator performs 21 calculations commonly needed by RF/microwave system designers in a wide range of applications. Quickly compute the effect of VSWR or return loss on transmitted power; cascaded gain and noise figure for up to five amplifier stages; and power-to-voltage conversion. It’s the perfect tool to help you solve problems and save time whether you’re working in the lab or in the field. Download the app today on GooglePlay for Android or the Apple store for iOS devices.
Mini-Circuits
www.minicircuits.com
NI AWR Design Environment V13
Next-generation communication and aerospace systems call for complex wireless devices and infrastructure that will challenge engineers to design smaller, faster and smarter products. NI AWR Design Environment V13 advances the state of simulation and design automation for RF/microwave and wireless communication electronics with new models, enhanced speed and functionality, and design flow integration. This open design platform provides system, circuit, and electromagnetic co-simulation to ensure first-pass success. Experience NI AWR Design Environment V13 with your free trial at awr.com/try.
National Instruments
awr.com/try
XFdtd® EM Simulation Software
Remcom announced a new capability to import flexible printed circuit board (PCB) designs in the latest update to XFdtd® 3D Electromagnetic Simulation Software. The release includes dielectric volume averaging and several usability conveniences. XFdtd’s PCB import dialog also includes the option to wrap a design, such as a flexible circuit, onto a form automatically during the import process. This option conforms the PCB and all of its parts onto the flexible circuit geometry, eliminating the need to bend the model or manually wrap each layer.
Remcom Inc.
www.remcom.com
Sonnet Suites Version 16.54
Sonnet® Software introduced Sonnet Suites Version 16.54 which supports an improved partner flow with NI AWR Version 13, known as AWR Connected™ for Sonnet. Sonnet’s improved Microwave Office interface boasts 64-bit compatibility, asynchronous EM simulations, and is perfect for PCB and MMIC design applications. The improved flow provides an integrated “solver on request” interface that gives users the capability to stay entirely within the MWO environment while taking advantage of Sonnet’s high accuracy simulation engine, em®. Contact Sonnet to upgrade today.
Sonnet Software Inc.
www.sonnetsoftware.com
Electromagnetic Simulation
Tech-X provides electromagnetic simulation software, including Particle-in-Cell (PIC) and Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) algorithms featuring tunable conformal geometry using Dey-Mittra cut cells. Tech-X’s VSim product simulates helix traveling wave tubes (TWT), magnetrons, klystrons, gyrotrons and other kinetic self-consistent microwave driven plasmas. Other VSim applications include multipactor, metamaterials and photonic devices, such as AWGs (arrayed waveguide gratings) used in silicon photonics. VSim supports massively parallel computing that scales to tens of thousands of processor cores.
Tech-X Corp.
www.txcorp.com