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News Release from: Vector Fields | Subject: Concerto AS, Concerto ES
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 28 March 2007
Design tools ease electromagnetic CAE
Hyper Vector Fields' CAE packages open up the potential of virtual prototyping to much smaller electronics companies in the high frequency and RF sectors.
Hyper Vector Fields is demonstrating two design software tools which dramatically reduce the entry costs to powerful electromagnetic CAE (computer aided engineering) The CAE packages open up the potential of virtual prototyping to much smaller electronics companies in the high frequency and RF sectors
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 28 Oct 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Both of the packages are variants of the company's new Concerto 6 software.
The first design tool, Concerto AS, is optimised for designing rotationally symmetric structures such as coaxial connectors.
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It simulates in two dimensions, which makes it extremely fast to use.
Concerto AS will simulate a coaxial RF connector's electromagnetic characteristics in less than five seconds.
It achieves this speed by simulating an axisymmetric 2D slice from the 3D model of the component.
This approach maintains compatibility with the full capabilities of 3D simulation software, allowing users to upgrade at any point in the future as the benefits of CAE are realised.
With Concerto AS' extremely fast simulation speed, users can perform searching 'what if?' investigations in a matter of minutes to create optimal designs, cutting design costs, time to market, and often manufacturing costs as well.
Users can explore and understand the effects that manufacturing variations such as minor movements in position of materials and parts will cause.
As a result, component designs can be optimised for immunity to wide material, manufacturing and assembly tolerances.
Concerto ES provides a generic 3D electromagnetic design capability and comes with a three-dimensional finite difference time domain (FDTD) solver.
This has a very broad ranging applicability and is suitable for applications ranging from the design of complex microstrip and waveguide devices, to developing portable communications products with multi-band operation or antenna diversity, to understanding signal propagation.
The design flexibility of the package is not restricted.
A low entry price is achieved merely by limiting the size of model that can be simulated, to half a million cells.
This solver is still highly efficient, thanks to Vector Fields' flexible conforming mesh tool, which will automatically refine the mesh size used on the model.
"Investing in CAE is a step that can help companies to make revolutionary progress in design, rather than smaller-scale evolutionary steps", says Vector Fields' CEO, Kevin Ward.
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