Solvers

 SEMCAD X Solvers

SEMCAD X solvers are available for 32bit and 64 bit,  Windows XP, Windows 7, RedHat 4 and 5, Mandrake 2010. MacOS and SUN Solaris are available under request.

  • FDTD Solvers: Yee-FDTD (standard fast FDTD solver), ADI-FDTD, FIT/C-FDTD (FIT and conformal FDTD solver), ADI/FIT/C-FDTD
  • LF Solvers: Magneto Quasi-Static, Magneto Static, Electro Quasi-Static, Electro Static
  • Thermal Solvers: standard Thermal solver, Conformal Thermal solver, Coupled EM-T solver, Steady-state Thermal solver, k_eff solver model, Flow solver
  • Circuit Co-Simulation: coupled EM and SPICE circuit co-simulation solver
  • Parallelized FDTD Solver

 FDTD Solvers Features

Transient, Broadband and Harmonic simulations
Results from time and frequency domain
Automatic or manual simulation termination
Boundary conditions: PEC, PMC, ABC, U-PML, C-PML

Support for run-time sensor monitoring

Arbitrarily combinable material types: Lossy dielectrics1, Multipole dispersive dielectrics1 (Drude, Lorentz, Debye, Generic), Thin resistive sheets1, PEC1, PMC1, Lossy Metals (SIBC)1, Nonlinear Dielectrics: Kerr and Raman Effect2

Material averaging on object boundaries for all material types (including dispersive and nonlinear media)

Efficient multithreaded coefficient calculation and simulation setup

On the fly FFT

Point, Voltage, Current and Field Sensors

Field excitation: Hard-, Voltage-, Current-sources, Plane Wave, Huygens Box

1CPU and hardwre acceleration support 2CPU only
 

Additional EM Conformal Solvers Features

 

Separate treatment of metals
Improved treatment of dielectrics (compared to original conformal)
User defined speed/accuracy tradeoff
Unconditionally stable and robust for arbitrarily complex structures                                   
Smooth integration with conformal gridder/voxeler
 

 

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 Themal Solvers Features

 

T standalone solver
Coupled EM-T, extended Pennes Bioheat Equation for BioEM
Discrete vessel model for BioEM
Multiple EM sources (not bound to single simulation)
Correlated/uncorrelated superposition of fields, individual scaling
Pulsed excitation/time profile, on-off switch
T dependent tissues (electric conductivity , SAR, blood perfusion)
Time dependent specific heat generation rates
Tensorial heat diffusion
Conformal subcell T solver
Flexible boundary-conditions (Neumann, Dirichlet, mixed, for every interface and every direction)
Extended T solver functionality (field optimization extended features)
Thermal ablation (tissue damage) measure
Flow Solver
 

 

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 LF Solver Features

 

3-D electro static and electro quasi-static potential solvers
3-D Biot-Savart integrator (magneto static)
3-D magneto quasi-static solver tailored for efficient human body simulations
Special focus on simulation of interaction of EM field with human bodies
fully integrated into SEMCAD X simulation platform
Coupled with Thermal solvers
 

 

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 Circuit-EM Co-Simulation Features

 

Coupled circuit (SPICE)-EM simulation in time-domain                                                      
Full integration/coupling with SEMCAD X EM simulator
Circuit/layout design environment
Hardware acceleration compatible
 

 

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 Parallelized FDTD solver

Improved OpenMP Shared Memory parallelization for all above  mentioned
Cluster OpenMP for Linux (Coming Soon)

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UPCOMING EVENTS
 
 
SPEAG Seminars in China & Taiwan, May–June 2012
25/05/2012 - 01/06/2012 (China & Taiwan)
 
SPEAG @ IEEE IMS 2012
17/06/2012 - 22/06/2012 (Montreal, Canada)
 
SEMCAD X Workshop @ APS/URSI 2012
08/07/2012 - 12/07/2012 (Chicago, US)
 
SPEAG @ APS/URSI 2012
08/07/2012 - 14/07/2012 (Chicago, IL, USA )
 
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