CST2013: Main Features

Main Features of  CST MICROWAVE STUDIO

• Transient solver for efficient calculation for loss-free and lossy structures. The solver does a broadband calculation of S-parameters from one single calculation run by applying DFT’s to time signals.

• Frequency domain solver with adaptive sampling. The general purpose solver supports both, hexahedral and tetrahedral meshes.

• Besides the general purpose solver, the frequency domain solver also contains two solvers being specialized on strongly resonant structures (hexahedral meshes only). The first of these solvers does only calculate S-parameters whereas the second one also calculates fields which requires some additional calculation time.

• Calculation of 3D eigenmodes.

• The structure can be viewed either as a 3D model or as a schematic. The latter allows for easy coupling of the EM simulation with circuit simulation.

• AR-Filter analysis for resonant structures.

• Farfield (2D, 3D, gain, angular beam width and more) and radar cross section (RCS) calculation.

• Network Parameter Extraction.

• Spice Model Extraction.

• Stationary thermal field solver (temperature, heat source, radiation surfaces, external fields) (HEX and TET).

• Transient thermal field solver (temperature, heat source) (HEX).

• Structural Mechanics solver (TET).

• Fast and memory efficient FI-method.

• Extremely good performance due to Perfect Boundary Approximation (PBA) and Thin Sheet Technique (TST) for solvers using hexahedral grids.

• Advanced ACIS  based, parametric solid modeling front-end with excellent structure visualization.

• Feature based hybrid modeler allows quick structural changes.

• Powerful macro language (VBA), OLE automation server.

• Expert system based automatic mesh generation with 3D adaptive mesh refinement.

• Import and Export of SAT, Step, Autodesk Inventor?, VDA-FS CATIA?, Pro/E?, IGES, NASTRAN or STL 3D CAD data.

• Import and Export of DXF 2D CAD data.

• Import GDSII and Gerber 2D CAD data.

• Import of voxel data models (Human Model Data).

• Efficient build-in optimizer. (Powell and Quasi-Newton type, advanced multilevel interpolation schemes)

• Parameter Sweeps.