CST has just released CST Suites 2006B.   Some new key features of the CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® 2006B include:

    - Multi-Level Subgridding for selective local mesh refinement
        -- Provides increased simulation efficiency for large workspace analyses
    - Improved solver efficiencies for parallel processing and multi-processor
        support
    - All EM solvers now support 32 and 64 bit operation
    - Distributed processing of T solver to Linux systems
    - New Integral Equation Solver for large scattering and radiation problems
    - Frequency Domain solver supports field ports with arbitrary orientation
    - Seamlessly shift between high frequency and low frequency/thermal
        analysis within the same environment

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CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® has a broad range of features to meet the demands of diverse problem sets. Notable features include:

GUI/THE CST DESIGN ENVIRONMENT™

The most significant change made in CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® 2006 is the use of the CST DESIGN ENVIRONMENT™ as a common access point to CST’s solver technology. Structures are presented in 3D and schematic views. Further improvements include:
 
• Easy coupling of EM with circuit and thermal analysis in one tool
• Multiple document interface
• Customizable short cuts
• Arbitrary cut planes
• Layer stacking
• JEDEC compliant automatic bondwire creation
• Enhanced visualization of tables
• And more....

CO-SIMULATION/WORKFLOW

Interoperability is a key strength of CST MWS. This has been consolidated through the addition of new import filters and improved interfacing between different solver technologies.

• Fully automatic co-simulation with Agilent ADS
• Improved interface to Cadence® Allegro®
• CATIA® v5 interface
• Mecadtron/Inventor/VDASS-FS import
• Import of Simlab current distributions
• New Spice extraction scheme
• Thermal analysis of electric losses

PERFORMANCE

Considerable improvements in the performance of CST MWS’ solver technology have been implemented:

• New PBA meshing algorithm, especially robust for highly complex imports
• Distributed computing
  – less data transfer
  – improved network error tolerance
  – greatly enhanced performance for high number of clients
• Improved Frequency Domain solvers
  – extremely fast S-Parameter solver for resonant structures
  – faster Eigenmode solver [incl. lossy materials]

TETRAHEDRAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN SOLVER

CST’s aim to deliver Complete Technology for 3D EM has produced significant advances in CST MWS’ tetrahedral Frequency Domain solver:

• Advanced true surface meshing
• Adaptive meshing
• Absorbing and periodic boundary conditions
• Arbitrarily shaped unit cells
• Standard, dispersive, and gyrotropic media
• Lumped elements
• S-Parameter, near and farfield computation
• Adaptive broadband frequency sweep

FURTHER KEY FEATURES

• Farfield over lossy ground
• Plots on arbitrary cutplanes
• Average plots
• Volume based SAR
• Plot farfield together with structure
• Tuning sliders for tables
• Tables with complex values, polar representation
• Smith chart for frequency dependant ports
• External Q-factor calculation
• Auto save
• Corrugated wall model for FD
• Switch from lossy to lossfree simulation.
• Step through frequencies of FD results with cursor buttons
• Non uniform scaling of structure for visualization
• Relative permeability and permittivity less than 1
• Direct access to online support page
• Hide/unhide all dielectrics
• Faster scan angle analysis
• Transform lumped elements and ports
• Ohmic sheet surface impedance for FD
• Tabular entry of dispersive materials – also applicable to human data set

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