Ansoft Designer takes microwave, RF, high-speed, and communication design software to a new level.

By linking physical attributes to electrical performance, Ansoft Designer makes it possible to get it right the first time. With Solver on Demand technology and seamless integration, Ansoft Designer eliminates design risk and uncertainty by providing the information you need to make correct decisions during all stages of the design process. Whats more, the software is flexible to accommodate a wide range of skill and experience, from novice to power user. Take the first step toward the new standard of design software. Ansoft DesignerRedefine the way you design.
Ansoft Designers advanced 3D viewer and post-processing

OVERVIEW
Ansoft Designer is the first suite of design tools to fully integrate high-frequency, physics-based electromagnetic simulation, modeling, and automation into a seamless environment for circuit and system analysis. So whether your design challenge is a Bluetooth transceiver, a radar system, or an MMIC or RFIC, Ansoft Designer gives you complete control over every design task from within one simple, unified environment. The key to this integration is Solver on Demand, a unique capability that orchestrates the use of multiple solvers while still giving you complete control. Ansoft Designer extends this automation and integration even further by enabling you to rapidly import work created in other types of design software as easily as if you created it within Ansoft Designer itself.

SOLVER on DEMAND
Ansoft Designers unique Solver on Demand technology allows flexible and highly accurate modeling and verification of unrestricted structures used in high-frequency component, circuit, and system designs. The technology allows you to simulate structures via circuit and system models or with a variety of Ansoft electromagnetic solvers at the touch of a button. Solver on Demand incorporates electromagnetic-solver results directly into larger network topologies. Solution data is cached and used in place of re-simulating unless you change structure parameters. In short, Solver on Demand allows you to maximize your productivity through speed and accuracy.

FEATURED CAPABILITIES
Digital-communication-system simulation Nonlinear circuit simulation, frequency domain, and transient analyses SVD FastSolve planar EM simulation with thick-metal capability Integrated IC and PCB layout editor with Java and Visual Basic scripting Impulse invariance convolution engine Swept parameter analysis Support of parameterized subcircuits, global variables, and parameter scoping Support of compiled and interpretive user-defined models (UDMs & SDDs) Design utilities, including real-time tuning filter and TRL synthesis and load-pull analysis Advanced design environment with dynamic project manager and solution caching

EASY-TO-USE INTERFACE
Ansoft Designer incorporates design-automation features by employing the latest Windows technology. Flexibility and customization are built in to address the needs of both the casual and power user. The design suite offers many innovations to standard design processes, which minimize effort and potential user error without sacrificing power and functionality.

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COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Ansoft Designer connects communication-system architects to hardware developers with an unparalleled baseband-through-RF design solution. With Ansoft Designer, you can study complete systems in time, frequency, or mixed-mode domain and generate and apply complex digital waveforms to arbitrary system topologies. Flexible behavioral models or automatic co-simulation of nonlinear circuit(s) and/or electromagnetic simulation provide solutions for initial prototyping or final design verification. Ansoft Designer supports up-to-date, bit-accurate, and user-configurable 3G waveforms, including 3GPP, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, and IEEE 802.11 a and b.

DESIGNER

Single and multicell antenna array co-simulated within a communication system

HIGH-FREQUENCY ICs
Ansoft Designer teams advanced, high-frequency circuit simulation and electromagnetic modeling with an automated design environment for RFIC and MMIC product development. The fully integrated solvers embed IC structures that affect high-frequency operations directly into the overall circuit or system simulation. Ansoft Designer detects parasitic behavior, such as substrate coupling and chip-packageboard interactions that impede efforts to shrink die sizes. Consequently, MMIC and RFIC designers can reduce die sizes or apply advanced structures, including flip-chip technology and ball-grid array (BGA) interconnects, to new or existing designs without sacrificing their understanding of overall behavior.
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MMIC amplifier based on commercial foundry design kit

BOARDS and MODULES

Ansoft Designers virtual modeling capability makes utilizing high-density PCBs in next-generation base stations or WLAN modules easier. Ansoft Designer allows you to explore new materials, such as Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC), or advanced board-manufacturing techniques without the cost of building prototypes. Ansoft Designers customizable vendor parts libraries and extensive electromagnetic solvers enable you to truly understand the performance of circuits and subsystems of boards and modules, including surface mount (SMD/SMT), chip-on-board, flip-chip, BGA, and/or chip-scale-package components.

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AVAILABLE ADD-ONS
AnsoftLinks Unidirectional and bidirectional links between EDA packages Full-Wave Spice High-bandwidth models for HSpice and PSpice Optimetrics Parametric sweeps, optimization, and sensitivity analysis WinIQSIM Communication waveform generation

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Intel Pentium class processor Windows NT with Service Pack 6 Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2
Load-pull analysis of Motorola MRF19125 LDMOS Transistor

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