Nexxim and Ansoft Designer Now Available for Linux and Solaris
May 10 2006 - 7:52AM
Business Wire
Ansoft Corporation (NASDAQ:ANST) announced the availability of
Nexxim(R) v3 and Ansoft Designer(R) v3 for the Red Hat Enterprise
Linux(R) v.3 and Sun Solaris(R) 8 and 9 operating systems. Nexxim
is the company's circuit simulation software for high-performance
IC design and signal-integrity analysis. Ansoft Designer provides
an integrated schematic and design management front-end for complex
analog, RF and mixed-signal applications. The release of Nexxim and
Ansoft Designer for Linux provides customers an alternative to the
previously released Microsoft Windows(R) versions and leverages the
growing popularity of Linux as a viable engineering platform. In
addition to Linux support, Nexxim v3 adds phase and time-variant
noise, autonomous source harmonic balance and seamless integration
with Cadence ADE/Spectre(R) RF. Adding accurate phase and
time-varying noise analyses to Nexxim is critical to the full
characterization of communication ICs. The ability to include both
driven and autonomous sources with a single harmonic-balance
simulation dramatically expands the accuracy and detail with which
complex transceiver circuits can be analyzed. Concurrently, Nexxim
allows engineers developing large and complex analog/RF designs to
simulate accurate transistor-level time- and frequency-domain
performance directly from within the Cadence ADE design framework,
leveraging existing design-flow infrastructure, foundry models and
circuit-related intellectual property. Ansoft Designer v3 offers
expanded Solver on Demand(R) capability and new design-verification
technology to speed the design process of RF systems and RF/analog
ICs and to increase the accuracy of signal-integrity studies. With
Ansoft Designer v3, engineers can capture high-frequency parasitic
behavior directly in their circuit simulation and apply that
knowledge toward design optimization and verification. Moreover,
extending the Solver on Demand technology to include HFSS(TM),
Ansoft's 3D full-wave electromagnetic-field simulation software,
allows engineers to perform parametric design optimization with
GHz-accurate, full-wave extraction. -0- *T Nexxim v3 highlights: --
Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.3 -- Support for Sun Solaris
8 and 9 -- Advanced analyses for analog/RF, mixed signal and signal
integrity -- Time-varying noise analysis (mixer noise) -- Phase
noise analysis -- Oscillator analysis for autonomous circuits (i.e.
VCOs and PLLs) -- Multiple methods for low Q and high Q circuits --
Simulate driven and autonomous source circuit in same analysis
(e.g., receiver front-end with embedded VCO) -- DC analysis:
additional continuation method -- Harmonic-balance analysis:
pseudo-transient continuation -- Transient analysis: speedup for
linear elements -- IC design-flow integration -- Runs seamlessly
within Cadence ADE -- Simulates schematics and netlist entered in
ADE -- Utilizes same analysis states and simulation controls as
Spectre RF -- Performs post-processing directly within Cadence ADE
-- Supports most Spectre RF models and netlists syntax -- Supports
existing Cadence-based foundry PDKs -- Model and simulation
enhancements -- High-frequency models including -- S-parameters
with noise data, optional passivity enforcement, convolution option
for transient analyses -- Microstrip, stripline and offset
stripline models -- Native IBIS v4.1 support (HSPICE(R) buffers) --
Circuit/System/EM co-simulation for IC design and verification --
Nexxim is fully integrated into the Ansoft Designer platform to
support system-level test bench implementation and full-wave 3D
parametric EM co-simulation via Solver on Demand technology. Ansoft
Designer v3 highlights: -- Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.3
-- Support for Sun Solaris 8 and 9 -- Solver on Demand for HFSS --
Automatically generate ports, boundary box and 3D structure -- New
component grouping feature -- Represent components with multiple
models (HFSS, netlist, planarEM) -- Cache solution data across
multiple instances for SOD elements (planarEM, HFSS, Q3D
Extractor(R)) -- Design Verification -- Scripted Design Rule
Checking (DRC) -- DRC supports creating, checking, and fixing
layout directly from within the Ansoft Designer layout editor. --
Develop a rule set containing scripts based on either JScript or
VBScript *T For more information on product pricing and
availability, please contact your nearest Ansoft office. To learn
more about Nexxim v3, visit
www.ansoft.com/products/hf/nexxim/icdesign.cfm. For details about
Ansoft Designer v3, visit
www.ansoft.com/products/hf/ansoft_designer/csdesign.cfm. About
Ansoft Ansoft is a leading developer of high-performance electronic
design automation (EDA) software. Engineers use Ansoft software to
design state-of-the-art electronic products, such as cellular
phones, Internet-access devices, broadband networking components
and systems, integrated circuits (ICs), printed circuit boards
(PCBs), automotive electronic systems and power electronics. Ansoft
markets its products worldwide through its own direct sales force
and has comprehensive customer-support and training offices
throughout North America, Asia and Europe. To learn more, please
visit www.ansoft.com.
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