Ansoft High-Performance Design News & Events

Design of a CMOS Gm-C Low-Pass Filter for RF Applications
Ansoft’s Minhong Mi recently published a white paper describing the design process for a Gm-C active low-pass filter (LPF) that can be used in ISM-band wireless applications. Using Ansoft Designer® and Nexxim®, Mi shows how these powerful tools provide a distinct advantage in simulation speed when performing design entry, filter synthesis, transient, small-signal AC, and nonlinear harmonic-balance simulations.
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MARCH 2006 • VOL. 2, NO. 1

TEXT-ONLY VERSION

1. Nexxim v3 Accelerates Established IC Design Flows
2. Ansoft Designer v3 Speeds Design of Communication Systems
3. NEC Compound Semiconductor Devices and Ansoft Deliver New Device Library
4. Maxwell Technologies and Ansoft Develop Ultracapacitor Model Library
5. Ansoft to Showcase Technology for High-Performance Automotive Design at SAE
6. Ansoft Releases SIMPLORER v7 Service Pack 5

EVENT*	DATE	LOCATION
TRAINING
M3DFS v11	March 28-29	Beverly Hills, MI
SIMPLORER	March 30-31	Beverly Hills, MI
HFSS	April 4	Los Angeles, CA
Ansoft Designer	April 5	Los Angeles, CA
HFSS	April 5	San Jose, CA
Ansoft Designer	April 6	San Jose, CA
HFSS	April 6-7	Boston, MA
HFSS	May 4-5	Boston, MA
Q3D Extractor	May 22	San Jose, CA
HFSS	May 23	Los Angeles, CA
SIMPLORER	May 23-25	San Jose, CA
Ansoft Designer	May 24	San Jose, CA
HFSS	May 25	San Jose, CA
TRADE SHOWS
APEC	March 19-23	Dallas, TX, Booth 86
IMAPS	March 21-22	Scottsdale, AZ, Booth 45
IEEE Sarnoff Symposium	March 28	Princeton, NJ
SAE	April 3-6	Detroit, MI, Booth 2009
HP CAE Symposium	April 25	Los Angeles, CA
EMTS	May 22-23	Philadelphia, PA, Booth 4
ECTC	May 22-23	San Diego, CA, Booth 222
IEEE MTT-S	June 13-15	San Francisco, CA, Booth 1105
*For the latest information on dates, times, venues, agendas, and registration, click on the links above.

1. Nexxim v3 Accelerates Established IC Design Flows
Nexxim® v3, the latest version of Ansoft’s circuit simulator for high-performance IC design and signal-integrity analysis, features phase and time-variant noise, autonomous source harmonic balance, and seamless integration with Cadence ADE/Spectre® RF.
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2. Ansoft Designer v3 Speeds Design of Communication Systems
Ansoft Designer® v3 offers expanded Solver on Demand® capability and new design-verification technology to speed the design process of RF systems and RF/analog ICs and to increase the accuracy of signal-integrity studies.
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3. NEC Compound Semiconductor Devices and Ansoft Deliver New Device Library
Ansoft has released a new device library based on NEC Compound Semiconductor Devices Ltd.’s high-performance transistor technologies. The combination of NEC’s device technology and Ansoft’s advanced simulation technologies enables a new generation of advanced, low-noise, high-gain RF and IC designs.
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4. Maxwell Technologies and Ansoft Develop Ultracapacitor Model Library
Maxwell Technologies Inc. and Ansoft will develop a model library of Maxwell Technologies’ BOOSTCAP® ultracapacitor cells and multi-cell modules using the VHDL-AMS modeling language for use in SIMPLORER®. Maxwell Technologies selected SIMPLORER based on the strength of its VHDL-AMS simulation capabilities and on Ansoft's leading position and focus on providing high-performance, system-simulation solutions to the automotive, aerospace, and industrial-power markets.
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5. Ansoft to Showcase Technology for High-Performance Automotive Design at SAE
Join Ansoft in Detroit April 3-6 at the SAE World Congress, Booth 2009. See how Ansoft customers use SIMPLORER®, Maxwell®, HFSS™, and Q3D Extractor®, to help them design electrical and power-electronic systems in hybrid-electric vehicles, evaluate EMI/EMC of cabling and wire harness, analyze PCB signal integrity, calculate S-parameters of antennas used in advanced applications, and design highly reliable electromechanical components. To get into the exhibit for free, download SAE’s Complimentary Exhibit Pass (PDF, 60KB).
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6. Ansoft Releases SIMPLORER v7 Service Pack 5
SIMPLORER® v7 Service Pack 5 is now available for current SIMPLORER users via the web-update capability in the software or at Ansoft’s Online Technical Support site. Highlights of SIMPLORER v7 SP 5 include an upgraded analog simulator, scheduling and unscheduling of time-triggering events, updated Newton-Raphson convergence criteria, DC-sweep for VHDL-AMS models, and more. To read more about these features and enhancements, click here.
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