International Microwave Symposium 2011
About IMS 2011
This year's symposium will take place 5-10 June 2011 in Baltimore, MA.
For more details on the Symposium, visit the IMS 2011 website.
Complimentary In-booth, Hands-on Training Classes
Join us at our booth #3213 for a complimentary, 20-minute, hands-on training class and receive a FREE Sonnet LitePlus license. Classes will be held every hour on the half-hour during exhibition show hours and cover a variety of topics for Sonnet users of all levels.
Class Schedule
Class Descriptions
Intro: A Single Stub Tuner
Live training to teach you to drive the Sonnet high frequency EM simulator. Setup and simulate a Sonnet project with a hands-on planar microstrip filter example. This class is suitable for first time users.
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MMIC Design using EM Port Tuning
The Sonnet EM simulator provides you with the power to tune and optimize MMIC matching networks with EM-accuracy. Learn out how Sonnet Co-calibrated Internal ports can provide you with the power to quickly and easily optimize MMIC layouts with speed AND accuracy.
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Fast EM-based Filter Design
With Sonnet's exclusive Co-Calibrated Ports, amazing new opportunities arise for speed and optimization of design. With the technique discussed in this class, you can take your design cycle from one week to one day!
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Via Model Extraction
In this session you will create and simulate a standard PCB via and extract an equivalent circuit model that can be used in other circuit simulators or for designer insight.
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4 GHz Susepended Stripline Coupler
We'll show you a fast and accurate way to tune/optimize a planar coupler design implemented in suspended stripline using a combination of circuit theory and EM analysis with AWR Microwave Office and Sonnet. See how Sonnet's Co-calibrated Ports can be used to introduce incremental tuning ports, giving your circuit design tool access to new and highly accurate tuning and optimization capabilities.
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Driving Sonnet with MATLAB
Learn to drive the Sonnet high frequency EM simulator from Matlab. Generate and manipulate Sonnet projects from Matlab using the new Sonnet / Matlab API.
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Parameterization of a Simple Antenna
We select a dipole antenna and illistrate how to draw the dipole, set up analysis frequencies, analyze and tune the dipole. THis presentation is based on Chapter 1 of the new book, "Introduction to Antenna Analysis Using Electromagnetic Simulators," available at the Artech House booth.
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Modeling Anisotropic Substrates
Did you know that permittivity is dependent on the direction of fields? This is called anisotropy, and not only does Sonnet support this in analysis, but we have developed a technique to characterize material as well. If you need accurate simulation, this class is for you.
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Intro:CPW Modeling
A great hands-on look at the basics of working with Coplanar Waveguide in Sonnet. Layout, parameterization, and simulation are all discussed and practiced in this presentation.
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High Performance EM Computing
Learn to leverage the latest computing hardware technology to run the fastest EM simulations possible! Learn how the Sonnet High Performance Solver utilizes parallel processing on multi-core CPUs to model each frequency, uses 64-Bit technology to model extraordinarily large circuits and uses a cluster computing environment to drastically reduce model simulation time.
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Coax to Microstrip Transition in CST MWS
Learn to drive the CST Microwave Studio (MWS) full 3D EM simulator. Create and simulate a full 3D model of a coax to microstrip transition. See electrical performance and powerful visualization features. You will see why CST MWS is heralded as the industry's most intuitive and powerful full 3D high frequency EM simulator.
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Sonnet Release 13 Preview
Join us for this special presentation, where you will get a sneak preview of the major new features and enhancements in Release 13 including diagnol ports and improved interoperability.
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Sonnet Interface: Agilent ADS
Agilent ADS users have the opportunity to use Sonnet's shielded-domain 3D planar EM simulation as a direct simulation client within ADS. We'll demonstrate how to drive Sonnet from the ADS schematic, the ADS layout, from the Momentum EM simulator settings or simply import pre-existing Sonnet projects (including layout) into ADS schematic look-alike elements.
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Sonnet Interface: AWR MWO
AWR Microwave Office users can easily access the Sonnet Suites 3D planar EM simulators from the MWO environment. Let us show you how to use Sonnet as your EM simulation and EM extraction client with live demonstrations of interoperability between MWO and Sonnet.
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Sonnet Interface: Cadence Virtuoso
Sonnet provides Cadence Virtuoso users with an integrated high frequency EM model extraction client. We'll demonstrate how to take a Cadence Virtuoso layout cell, auto-launch an EM simulation, and automatically incorporate EM extraction models for frequency and time domain simulation with Cadence Spectre and Spectre/RF. If you are designing RFICs and need an accurate, efficient and hassle-free EM model extractor for good RF models, please join us!
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EM-based TLine Model Extraction
Live training to teach you to drive the Sonnet high frequency EM simulator. You will learn to simulate single and coupled planar microwave transmission lines, and extract various transmission line parameters (Normal Modes, RLGC matrixes, Propagation Constants, etc.). This class is suitable for new users.
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The Acceptance of Maxwell's Theory
Maxwell first published what came to be called "Maxwell's equations" in 1865. However, it was not until 1888, and Heinrich Hertz's experimental validation that Maxwell's equations were widely accepted as correct. The story of the intervening 23 years is little known. In this presentation, we describe the torturous 23 year path Maxwell's equations took from their creation to their initial acceptance.
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Intro: Parametric CPW Z0
Learn to create your own characteristic impedance (Z0) curves based on swept geometry parameter analysis in the Sonnet EM simulator. In this lab, you will start with a CPW transmission line, apply a geometry control parameter, and with a single analysis create a Z0 curve parameterized to geometry variation.
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Spiral Inductor Modeling
Hands-on training for the MMIC or RFIC designer. Create and simulate a spiral inductor in a typical semiconductor process, starting with inductor layout and process stack, and ending with data curves to show how inductance and Q vary with frequency. Learn how easily planar spiral inductor designs can be developed and simulated in the Sonnet 3D planar EM environment.
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GaN HEMT Amplifier
Learn to incorporate surface mount devices (SMDs) in RF printed circuit board (PCB) simulations in the Sonnet EM analysis environment. You will build up and simulate an RF power amplifier design on a popular microwave PCB material, incorporate an RF Power GaN HEMT in SMD format, and conduct EM simulation on the full circuit. Warning: High power circuit!
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Metal Surface Roughness on Resonators
A big surprise with thin substrates is that metal surface roughness is a major factor, and not just for loss. Roughness also adds substantial series inductance. This inductance can make the effective dielectric constant appear to increase by as much as 15%, even though the dielectric constant is unchanged. In this session, we use Sonnet to analyze the effect of roughness on a resonator.
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