A 3-D electromagnetic simulator for high frequency applications

A general purpose full-wave electromagnetic simulator IE3-D has been developed for the analysis and design of high-frequency and high-speed electronic circuit structures. For an arbitrarily shaped 3-D metallic layered structure, the integral equation, and method of moment-based simulator solves the current distribution on the structure expanded into roof-top functions on a set of 3-D triangular and rectangular cells. The circuit parameters are extracted from the solved current distribution in the form of either S-parameters frequency response and RLC-equivalent circuit in SPICE format.<
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