Studio Suite 2010 addresses EM as well as mechanical and thermal problems

Computer Simulation Technology (CST) is aiming to help engineers and researchers solve electromagnetic problems as well as mechanical and thermal problems within an integrated design environment with the introduction of CST Studio Suite version 2010, which the company said today has begun shipping

CST Studio Suite version 2010 offers an extended range of solvers within one design environment, enabling a variety of applications to be analyzed without leaving the familiar CST interface:

–A new asymptotic solver, based on the shooting bouncing ray method, an extension to physical optics, which can tackle simulations with an electric size of many thousands of wavelengths, thereby addressing applications such as radar-cross section analysis.

–The CST MWS (Microwave Studio) frequency-domain solver, which featured true geometry adaptation with version 2009, now includes third- and mixed-order elements to further increase simulation efficiency and speed (a feature previewed at last June’s International Microwave Symposium). The frequency-domain solver is also the first solver to feature CST’s new sensitivity-analysis approach.

–The CST MWS flagship time-domain solver incorporates functional enhancements, such as arbitrary-order dispersive material modeling and domain decomposition, in support of cluster, distributed, and GPU (graphical processing unit) computing.

CST Studio Suite version 2010 also integrates the CST Microstripes 3D electromagnetic simulation tool to serve engineers working on electromagnetic compatibility. The integration provides within the CST design environment access to features valuable in EMC simulations, such as compact models and octree meshing.

The new suite also includes a new power-integrity solver, CST Mphysics Studio for thermal (including bio-heat) and mechanical stress analysis, the CST Design Studio RF circuit and system simulation tool, and broadband field interfaces to enable coupling of different CST simulation tools. EDA import tokens provide flexible access to major EDA flows.

See the related article, “EDA companies tout RF design, links to test.” For more on EDA tools running on GPUs, see “Who needs CES when you can see Maxwell’s equations rendered in 3-D?“