Version 7.5 of Flomerics’ MicroStripes 3D EM simulation solution is designed for RF/microwave and antenna design which integrates with Applied Wave Research’s (AWR) Microwave Office circuit design software.

“MicroStripes Version 7.5 is said to operate seamlessly as a plug-in to Microwave Office and to provide high-frequency RF and microwave circuit designers with full-wave 3D solver capabilities required by complex high frequency design issues and time-to market cycles.

The new version enables users to import any desired excitation waveform during the modeling process, run the simulation and evaluate the results without any additional post-processing. This makes it possible, for example, to simulate the effect of a lightning strike, electromagnetic pulse (EMP) or electrostatic discharge (ESD) on a system using a pre-computed, analytic or measured waveform.

In version 7.5, ground planes can also be used for models without meshing all of the space between the system and ground plane. A specific algorithm accounts for the effects of the ground plane outside of the simulation domain, reducing solution time.

MicroStripes 7.5 reduces the computational resources required to model ferrite tiles by providing its SmartPart compact model methodology of ferrite tile absorber which incorporates the effects of the tiles into the simulation without having to include them in the mesh.

More information is available by contacting Flomerics Inc., 4 Mount Royal Ave., Ste. 450, Marlborough, MA 01752, by calling 508-357 2012 or at www.flomerics.com.