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Sonnet Suites Applications

Sonnet Suites is best suited to design challenges involving predominantly planar (3D planar) circuits and antennas. 3D planar circuits consist of layers of metal traces embedded in stratified dielectric material. These circuits may also include vias and vertical metal sheets (z-directed strips). Sonnet Pro allows any number of of dielectric/metal layers including multiple user defined metal types and dielectric materials. Some examples of 3D planar circuits include MMIC, RFIC, coplanar waveguide (CPW) , LTCC, PCB (single and multiple layers) and patch antennas.

MMICs and RFICs

MMICs and RFICs

GaAs low noise amplifier MMIC. Sonnet computes response and current density of the featured interstage matching network from 10-30 GHz.

Lossy Silicon

Lossy Silicon

A spiral inductor on lossy silicon. The substrate is 1 mm thick with a conductivity of 20 S/m.

PCB

PCB

PCB low-pass filter application with printed inductors.

LTCC

LTCC

Sonnet provides the industry’s most efficient handling of multi-layer LTCC structures.

CPW

CPW

Wideband and narrowband finite ground coplanar waveguide.

Superconductor Filters

Superconductor Filters

Superconducting filter design modeled in Sonnet for a radio astronomy application.

Antennas

Antennas

A RH circularly polarized patch antenna design for operation at 2.4 GHz, with quadrature phase feed.

Signal Integrity

Signal Integrity

Quickly and accurately model high-speed busses and circuits with signal integrity concerns.

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