Solvers

Solvers

• Yee-FDTD (standard fast FDTD solver, 20/40 MCells/s on P4 3.4 GHz
• ADI-FDTD (ADI-FDTD solver)
• C-FDTD (FIT / conformal FDTD solver)
• C-ADI-FDTD (combined ADI and FIT / conformal FDTD solver)
• T (Thermal solver)
• C-T (conformal Thermal solver)
• EM-T (coupled EM Thermal solver, conformal)
• LF solver
• Circuit-EM Simulation
  

Multi Processor Packages

• Cluster OpenMP for Linux (Coming Soon)
• Improved openMP shared memory parallelization for all above mentioned
  

Network Features

• Remote simulation tools with simulating queing
• Batch demon, queuing control instances
• Solver control via SEMCAD X GUI or cmd line or Python scripting
• Database engine for sharing and managing projects
  

Solver Features

• FDTD Solvers
  -Transient, Broadband and Harmonic simulations
  - Results from time and frequency domain
  - 32/64 bit, Win/Linux/OSX/UNIX
  - Automatic or manual simulation termination
  - Non-homogeneous intelligent gridder engine (geometry detection)
  - Run-time monitoring of I(t) and V(t)
  - Lossy dielectric and magnetic materials
  - Frequency-dependent dielectric and magnetic materials (Debye,
  Lorentz, Drude, Drude-Lorentz)
  - Metamaterials (double negative)
  - Non-linear materials (Kerr-Effect, Raman-Scattering)
  - Lossy real metals, thin metal sheets and coatings
  - Temperature relevant parameters for T and EM-T solver
  - Huge predefined materials database (metals, dielectrics, anatomical)
  - User defined signals source (pulse, step, saw, arbitrary, etc.)
  - Discrete sources (1-D, single edge)
  - Waveguide sources (2-D, excitation on planes)
  - Plane-wave and Huygens’ box sources (total-field / scattered-field)
  - Hard added voltage and current sources (with series/parallel RLC)
  - Lumped elements (R, L, C, predefined serial/parallel)
  - More complex elements through CIRCUIT-EM Simulation
  - ABC, PEC, PMC, periodic boundaries
  - Analytic boundaries (Mur, Higdon)
  - UPML and CPML boundaries with adjustable absorption
  
  
• Special/Additional EM Conformal Solver Features
  - Separate treatment of metals
  - Improved treatment of dielectrics (compared to original conformal)
  - User defined speed/accuracy tradeoff
  - Unconditionally stable and robust for arbitrarily complex structures
  - Smooth integration with conformal gridder/voxeler
  
  
• Thermal Solver Features
  - T standalone solver
  - Coupled EM-T, extended Pennes Bioheat Equation for BioEM
  - Discrete vessel model for BioEM
  - Multiple EM sources (not bound to single simulation)
  - Correlated/uncorrelated superposition of fields, individual scaling
  - Pulsed excitation/time profile, on-off switch
  - T dependent tissues (electric conductivity , SAR, blood perfusion)
  - Time dependent specific heat generation rates
  - Tensorial heat diffusion
  - Conformal subcell T solver
  - Flexible boundary-conditions (Neumann, Dirichlet, mixed, for every interface and every direction)
  - Extended T solver functionality (field optimization extended features)
  - Thermal ablation (tissue damage) measure
  
  
• Circuit-EM Simulation
  - Coupled circuit (SPICE)-EM simulation in time-domain
  - Full integration/coupling with SEMCAD X EM simulator
  - Circuit/layout design environment
  - Import of components, subcircuits (Coming soon)
  - Interfaces to other circuit simulation packages (Coming soon)
  - Hardware acceleration compatible
  
  
• LF Solvers
  - Windows 32/64 bit
  - Automatic simulation termination
  - Electrostatic and Electro quasi-static
  - Magnetostatic and Magneto quasi-static with constant permeability
  - 3D static solver
  - 3D LF solvers, E/H integrated into SEMCAD X
  - Coupled with Thermal solvers