AnsoftLinks
™
Design Automation for ECAD Layout
AnsoftLinks™ streamlines the transfer of design databases from
popular third-party EDA layout tools into Ansoft electromagnetic field
simulation products. EDA links are available for a number of tools
offered by Cadence®, Zuken, Sigrity and Mentor Graphics®.
With AnsoftLinks, select components or complete IC, electronic, package, printed circuit board and connector
designs can be automatically converted into ready-to-simulate Ansoft models, allowing engineers to use existing
design geometries in their electromagnetic field simulation in order to meet aggressive development costs and
schedule goals.
SUPPORTED ECAD LAYOUT SOFTWARE
Cadence Design Systems
• Allegro® PCB Design
• Allegro® Package Designer
• SiP Digital/RF
• Virtuoso®
Mentor Graphics
• BoardStation® and BoardStation® XE/RE
• Expedition™
• PADs Layout™
• Zuken CR-5000
• Sigrity UPD
• Packaging Layout Specific
· Generates 3D solid models for wire bonds,
solder bumps, solder balls
APPLICATIONS
FEATURED CAPABILITIES
• Generates ready-to-solve projects for HFSS™,
SIwave™, Q3D Extractor®, Ansoft Designer®,
and TPA™
• Unites touching metal into single conductor
(including traces on multiple layers)
• Generates 3D solid models of selected traces,
supply planes and vias
• Edit stack-up properties, such as individual
layer thickness, dielectric constant and
conductivity
• Select nets for translation by net name(s), or
point and click on specific traces or region
of the board
• Automatic de-featuring of selected nets to
minimize model complexity and solution time
• IC Layout Specific
· Exports specific “cells” (and their sub-cells)
· Merge via arrays into a single object to
simplify the solid model and speed analysis
IC Packages
• Leaded-type (QFP, PLCC, DiP, SO)
• PGA
• BGA (wire-bonded, flip chip)
• MCM, SiP, LTCC
Printed Circuit Boards
• High-speed computer boards
• Network interface cards
• RF PCBs
ICs
• Cells and sub-cells
• On-chip passives – vias, spiral inductors,
interdigitated capacitors, interconnects
DESIGN FLOW
AnsoftLinks™ is critical for applications where design automation is necessary to bring together electromagnetic
field simulation and the design entry and modeling tools required for capturing today’s intricate design complex-
ity. With AnsoftLinks, selected components in your IC, package, or printed circuit board design can be automatically
translated and converted into ready-to-simulate models for the Ansoft electromagnetic field simulation software
products, freeing the engineer from time-consuming and error-prone design re-entry.
HFSS
™
®
Allegro
®
PCB Design
Allegro
®
Package Designer
SiP Digital Layout
Virtuoso®
®
Q3D Extractor
®
AnsoftLinks
™
for ECAD
SIwave
™
Board Station
®
Expedition
™
Package Designer
PADS
®
Layout
Unified Package Designer
™
CR-5000
TPA
™
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