Performance

SEMCAD X is setting new standards in CEM by offering some of the fastest FDTD solvers and enhancements on the market. Offering awesome speedup, excellent RAM memory efficiency and useful features like auto-termination, solving large problems has never been so easy.

Furthermore, SEMCAD X is the first FDTD toolkit on the market offering hardware acceleration. Simulation speeds of 90-1500 MCells/s puts SEMCAD X in a league of its own as far as solver performance is concerned.

Please do contact us to request performance information related to your specific applications. The following 4 examples are used as performance benchmarks to highlight the advanced performance of SEMCAD X:

SEMCAD X Performance	Bench 1	Bench 2	Bench 3	Bench 4
Model	whole car	mobile phone	human phantom	mobile phone/SAM head/ hand
frequency (MHz)	900	1880	400	1880
min grid step (mm)	3	0.1	1	0.1
No. time step	2100	16561	15753	16561
Steady-state (periods)	15	10	13	10
computational domain	184x313 x119 =6.74 mil	160x168 x294 =7.78 mil	128x155 x342 = 6.67 mil	238x259 x312 = 19.23 mil
excitation	plane wave	multiband helical antenna	dipole	multiband helical antenna
ABC	UMPL, 6 lyrs	analytical	analytical	analytical

Solver Performance	Bench 1	Bench 2	Bench 3	Bench 4
Solver RAM (MB)	346	313	260	735
Simulation time: Machine*	18min46	1h13	47m30	3h14
Simulation speed : Machine* (Mcells/s)	13	31	38.5	28
Simulation time: aXware**	1min16	9min5	8min54	20min20
Simulation speed : aXware** (Mcells/s)	180	240	195	270
Simulation time: CIB***	1min40	7min23	7min45	10min24
Simulation speed: CIB*** (Mcells/s)	200	306	224	529

* Machine, SEMCAD X Eiger: P4, 3.4 GHz, 3 GB RAM
**Accelerators V3.0: aXware accelerators
***CIB 1500: aXware accelerators

Benchmark4: Runtime performance for different hardware platforms

Benchmark4: Throughput performance for different hardware platforms