ANSOFT HIGH-PERFORMANCE ELECTRONIC DESIGN NEWS & EVENTS March 2006; Vol. 2, No. 1 More Info: www.ansoft.com DESIGNER'S CORNER: 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. Read More » http://www.rfglobalnet.com/Content/news/article.asp?Bucket=Article&DocID={44A14D4E-E35E-406A-81DA-202C2889AF60}&VNETCOOKIE=NO NEWS: 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 EVENTS: 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, please visit http://www.ansoft.com/events.cfm. 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. Read More » http://www.ansoft.com/products/hf/nexxim/icdesign.cfm?src=news0306 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. Read More » http://www.ansoft.com/products/hf/ansoft_designer/csdesign.cfm?src=news0306 3. NEC Compound Semiconductor Devices and Ansoft Deliver New Device Library Announcing SIwave(tm) v3, a full-wave electromagnetic-field simulator optimized for signal- and power-integrity analysis of high-performance PCBs and IC packages. The new version provides expanded analysis capabilities for board and package co-design and EMI/EMC studies. Customers in the computer, semiconductor, networking, communications, and high-performance consumer electronics industries benefit from SIwave v3 as it broadens the scope of simulation, more closely realizes the complete system configuration, and ultimately saves design time and cost as design re-spins are reduced. 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. Read More » http://www.ansoft.com/news/press_release/060117.cfm?src=news0306 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. Read More » http://www.ansoft.com/news/press_release/060307.cfm?src=news0306 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). Register for SAE » http://www.sae.org/congress/ 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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