What’s New in EMPro 2017?

EMPro 2017 continues to be a leading 3D electromagnetic modeling and simulation environment, which is also integrated with the ADS 2017 design flow. This latest release offers a number of new capabilities to reduce simulation time (FEM performance improvements, easier to use Python scripting, adaptive meshing) and increase design efficiency (improved parameterization, FEM native field visualization).

Finite Element Method (FEM)

• Improved FEM performance / speed / meshing robustness and consistency
  • Improvement of initial mesh efficiency
  • Improvements in adaptive mesh algorithm: faster and more consistent mesh convergence
  • Improved adaptive frequency algorithm
    • Avoids zoom-in
    • Better support for parallel frequency sweep calculations
  • Support for mixed order basis functions
  • Reduced footprint on disc (mesh files, S param solution files, field solution files)

  Global performance improvement: on average factor 1.5-2 speed improvement for larger designs pending further validation
  Parallel frequency sweep calculations on single server: factor 1.5-3 speed improvement pending further validation

• Improved queue/remote/distributed simulations
  • Data transfer robustness improved
  • Generalization in queuing system support via customizable and configurable solution
  • Log file updates improved
• Support for parameterized FEM simulation
• Streamlined and unified 3D view / visualization flow
  • All visualization in main geometry window

Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD)

• Sample material parameter support in FDTD-GPU simulations
  • Sampled automatically mapped to 7 pole model (broad band mode)
• Faster FDTD far field calculations
• Automatic determining of sampling number for steady state results
• FDTD meshing improvements to highlight unexpected shorts
• Improved queue/remote/distributed simulations
  • Data transfer robustness improved
  • Generalization in queuing system support via customizable and configurable solution
  • Log file updates improved

EMPro Platform

• Improved data plotting and results handling
  • Efficiently plotting S-parameter results
  • Efficiently compare S-parameter results from different simulations (e.g. parameter sweep)
  • TDR plots
  • Improved data export
• Enhanced parameterization platform
  • On-the-fly new parameter definition creation on usage
  • 3D geometry models accept zero height
• Python scripting API improvement
  • Unified and simplified API to extract and process result data (fields, far fields, S params): WIP, partly in beta2
  • More complete API reference documentation
• Python debugger

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