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HyperWorks
Dr. Ulrich Jakobus
Vice President Electromagnetic Solutions
jakobus@altair.com
8 October 2015
Microwave Journal Webinar
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Vision of Altair
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Altair's corporate
structure is tightly
Product Engineering /
Development Consulting
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FEKO Roadmap
14.0
Release
Expected
Feature Update Nov. 2015
February 2015
7.0.2
7.0.1
Feature Update
September 2014
Suite 7.0
Release
May 2014
FDTD solver, voxel mesher
First HWU
installations
January 2015
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multiple configurations
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HyperWorks Integration
14.0
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A large number of near field samples are needed around the horn to represent
the aperture excitation accurately
The transformation of the aperture excitation to spherical modes reduces the simulation
time from several days to only 3 min!
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RWG = 3 774
RWG = 5 661
HOBF 3.5 =
72
HOBF 3.5 = 1 296
Sphere radius = 1
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Mesh elements
Ports
Mesh information
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radius 2.5 mm
height 50 mm
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Electrically large flare and circular plate with electric dipole point source
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User can opt to let the solver determine the wire radius
to improve FDTD stability (e.g. 0.208 times voxel size)
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Example list of
application macros
Dataset refactor
Interactive dialogs
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Ribbon
Status bar
Script editor
Workflow
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learn syntax
become familiar with API objects and properties
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CADFEKO
Option to rotate the elements of circular/cylindrical antenna arrays
Can create arrays with sequentially rotated arrays directly in a single setup
notched patches
horn antennas
spiral
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CADFEKO
CAD exchange library updated
Supported: ACIS R25, CATIA V5 R24 (V5 6R2014), NX 9, Pro/E / Creo 3.0
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Opening speedup
Device
23
400%
PCB model
62
22%
Car model
95
980%
23
27%
125
280%
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menus
When adding a
source to a
configuration, the
port can be
created directly
from the dialogue
by pressing
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POSTFEKO
Display impedance data for loads and general networks on Smith charts
Add math scripts and imported data to empty project
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User-defined
Default fonts
fonts
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User-defined input
ZT
Since FEKO Suite 6.0
ZT and YT
Since FEKO Suite 6.0
ZT and YT
New in FEKO 14.0
CADFEKO Create
cable shield dialog
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E0
Es
where E0 is the incident plane wave field and Es represents the scattered field.
Extension to Active RCS by including the radiated field from sources other than
plane waves in the model as part of Es
Example application:
E0
Es
RCS reduction by transmitting an active signal which intends to cancel the backscattered field
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Traditional optimisation
Stochastic Analysis
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GA optimisation convergence
T
trimmer
capacitor
A tuning circuit and trimmer capacitor are needed to match the antenna
3 geometric variables are considered X, Y, T for the initial full factorial DoE; S11 is used as the
response
A Fit response surface is generated using radial basis functions (RBF) based on the DoE data
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Optenni Lab
Optenni Lab is a leading professional matching circuit synthesis and
optimisation software for solving all matching problems in the RF chain
within wireless devices
Optenni Lab can optimise broadband, multiband, multiport and tunable
matching circuits for antennas, filters, amplifiers, switches, tuners and
other RF components
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WLAN, BT
antenna geometry
Touchstone files for the unmatched antenna are automatically sent to Optenni Lab
Bands, efficiency and coupling goals are defined in Optenni Lab and matching
circuits are calculated
Circuit information is sent back to FEKO and automatically connected to the ports
using general networks
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Installations for FEKO 14.0 are available for both legacy licensing
(i.e. secfeko.dat license file) and also for HWU (HyperWorks Units).
HyperWorks 14.0 introduces a new licensing scheme named
Unlimited Solver Node in addition to the existing Per Job Licensing
scheme, to give more flexibility to customers for solver runs:
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New Limit
Student Edition
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Model Elements
Solution Specification
Near-field observation points per request
Solution Metrics
Main memory that can be allocated by FEKO kernel
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Traditional
HPC CAE
HWUL
Physical Appliance
HWUL
Virtual Appliance
Unlimited Vendors
Limited Benefits
Single Vendor
Unlimited Benefits
Single Vendor
Unlimited Benefits
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