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CST STUDIO SUITE® 2017

CST STUDIO SUITE® 2017
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CST STUDIO SUITE® 2017

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Overview of CST STUDIO SUITE® 2017
CST STUDIO SUITE® 2017 is a comprehensive software package for designing, simulating, and optimizing electromagnetic systems. It is widely used in technology and engineering sectors for its accuracy, speed, and usability. The suite includes various modules such as CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® and CST EM STUDIO®, each tailored for specific applications like microwaves, RF, and optical systems.
Importance of Simulation
Simulation is essential for reducing design iteration cycles, cutting development costs, and accelerating time-to-market. It allows for detailed analysis and optimization of systems and components from the early stages of development.
Key Features
  • Accuracy: Built on proven solver technology, the suite offers precise simulation results across various applications.
  • Speed: High-performance computing options, including multithreading and hardware acceleration, enable efficient handling of complex problems.
  • Usability: A user-friendly interface facilitates model setup and simulation, with tools for importing/exporting designs and simplifying complex systems.
Applications and Solvers
The suite supports a wide range of applications across the electromagnetic spectrum, including high-frequency, low-frequency, EDA, particle dynamics, and multiphysics simulations. Each solver is optimized for specific problems, such as antenna placement or resonant structures.
Multiphysics and Material Modeling
CST STUDIO SUITE® integrates electromagnetism with other physics fields like mechanics and thermodynamics, supporting multiphysics analysis for components like motors and microwave ovens.
High Performance and Cloud Computing
The suite offers hardware-based acceleration options and a flexible licensing scheme for high-performance computing resources, including cloud computing.
Automatic Optimization
Includes local and global optimizers to automate tuning of variables affecting device performance, with tools like the Trust Region Framework optimizer and Pareto front optimization for PCB design.
Workflow Integration
Integrates with various EDA tools and RF circuit/system simulators, supporting comprehensive simulation workflows and co-design with other simulation tools.
Specific Applications
  • Antennas: Supports design and optimization for standalone antennas, arrays, and installed antennas, integrating with Antenna Magus for performance evaluation.
  • Microwaves & RF: Excels in simulating high-frequency electromagnetic fields, supporting filter design and synthesis.
  • Biological Electromagnetics: Provides tools for simulating EM interactions with the human body, including SAR calculations.
  • Optical Devices: Supports simulation of optical, photonic, and plasmonic devices, optimizing efficiency and reducing design costs.
  • EDA/Electronics: Offers tools for maintaining signal integrity, power integrity, and electromagnetic compatibility in circuit boards.
  • EMC/EMI: Addresses electromagnetic compatibility and interference, providing tools for simulating emissions and immunity.
  • Particle Dynamics: Includes solvers for designing charged particle devices, with tools for particle tracking and PIC simulations.
  • Statics/Low Frequency: Provides modules for low-frequency simulations, aiding in the design of power transmission devices and magnetic components.
Conclusion
CST STUDIO SUITE is a versatile tool that integrates various simulation modules, allowing for comprehensive analysis and design across multiple domains of electromagnetic applications.
About CST and SIMULIA
CST is recognized for its leading-edge technology and user-friendly interface, with solutions used by market leaders in various industries. SIMULIA, part of Dassault Systèmes, offers physics-based simulation and high-performance computing to drive sustainable innovation.
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CST STUDIO SUITE® 2017-1

CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® | CST EM STUDIO® CST PARTICLE STUDIO® | CST CABLE STUDIO® | CST PCB STUDIO® CST MPHYSICS® STUDIO | CST DESIGN STUDIO™

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CST STUDIO SUITE The CST STUDIO SUITE graphical user interface, showing E-fields inside a mobile phone. Simulation allows a detailed analysis of the entire phone, including antenna performance, specific absorption rate (SAR), electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and signal integrity (SI).

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Why Simulate? Getting the design right first time is the ideal for product development. With virtual prototyping electromagnetic simulation can help you to cut down design iteration cycles. Simulation allows systems and components to be analyzed and optimized in their environment from the earliest stages of development. This can make the design process faster, reducing development costs and time-to-market. CST STUDIO SUITE® is a package of tools for designing, simulating and optimizing electromagnetic systems, and is used in leading technology and engineering companies around the world. The three...

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Accuracy Read Frauscher Sensor Technology’s success story at www.cst.com/FST2017 Accurate simulation: Excellent agreement between simulation and measurement in the response curves of a Frauscher RSR180 wheel sensor. “ ST STUDIO SUITE gave us the ability to C quickly and accurately model our sensors including all complex interactions with the surrounding environment that just wouldn’t have been possible experimentally. The additional understanding will be invaluable in designing our future generations of sensors. In addition, I commend the friendly and competent CST staff who, albeit indirectly,...

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Complete Technology To ensure that CST simulation technology remains at the cutting edge, its solvers are under continuous development, and represent decades of research into accurate and efficient computational techniques. This accuracy has allowed customers in many application areas who use CST  STUDIO  SUITE to construct virtual prototypes that mimic the behavior of the real device, saving time and money in the design cycle. Complete Technology: Simulating a magnetron requires high-frequency, static, thermal, mechanical and particle effects to be taken into account. For some applications,...

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Powerful Modeling Tools S-Parameters [Magnitude in dB] MATERIAL TYPES IN CST STUDIO SUITE INCLUDE: Dielectrics Lossy metals Anisotropic materials Time-dependent materials Temperature-dependent materials Graded materials Dispersive materials ■■ Debye model Lorentz model Drude model Electric and magnetic gyrotropic SMD filter to be simulated with excellent accuracy. An accurate simulation requires an accurate model. This means that the model has to represent the real-world object and capture the full range of phenomena that can affect its EM performance. CST  STUDIO  SUITE includes a powerful modeling...

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Multiphysics Electromagnetism is closely linked to other fields of physics, including mechanics and thermodynamics. Multiphysics analysis is therefore necessary in the design of many different components, from motors and generators to induction heaters and microwave ovens. In many cases, electric and magnetic effects are inseparable from thermal and mechanical effects – for example, a high-power filter will heat up when in use, and this can cause thermal deformation that affects the performance of the filter. The link to SIMULIA® strengthens CST’s multiphysics offering further. For more information,...

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Robust, Accurate Meshing Meshing techniques: Various meshing strategies for a simple reflector antenna: staircase, curved tetrahedral, curved hybrid surface, and the proprietary CST technology PBA. In simulation, structures and fields are discretized onto a mesh. Each additional cell increases the computational requirements of the simulation, which means that it is advantageous if the mesh accurately describes the model while using as few mesh cells as possible. CST STUDIO SUITE includes hexahedral and tetrahedral volume meshes and hybrid triangular and quadrilateral surface meshes, with different...

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Wi-Fi coverage simulation: Electric field from a Wi-Fi antenna at 2.45 GHz inside a bus, simulated with the Transient Solver. High frequency Particle dynamics A selection of the solver types available in CST STUDIO SUITE. Transient Solver – general purpose Frequency Domain Solver – general purpose Integral Equation Solver – electrically large structures, RCS Asymptotic Solver – installed performance, RCS Eigenmode Solver – resonant cavities Multilayer Solver – planar structures Filter Designer 2D – RF filter analysis and synthesis Filter Designer 3D – cross-coupled filter analysis and synthesis...

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CST STUDIO SUITE® 2017-10

Read Airbus Defence & Space’s success story at www.cst.com/MPO2017 “ ith the help of CST STUDIO SUITE and the implemented W high-performance solver techniques, we were able to verify the RF communications requirements and to establish reasonable EMC requirements for the various units and instruments on the spacecraft.” Dr.-Ing. Christian Imhof, Satellite Products, Airbus Defence and Space Spacecraft antenna placement: Simulation model of the BepiColmobo Mercury Planetary Orbiter. Low-gain antennas are represented by field sources (red). Antenna performance: Radiation pattern for one low-gain...

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High Performance and Cloud Computing “G PU computing has allowed us to perform some complex simulations that were previously impractical. ” Find out more about CST’s HPC capabilities at www.cst.com/HPC2017 “Matt Fuller, Selex ES Because high-performance hardware represents a significant investment, our hardware experts are available to advise users who are considering purchasing or upgrading HPC systems, and review hardware configurations. CST offers also benchmarking services, in collaboration with vendor test centers, to help ensure that the chosen hardware configuration offers excellent performance...

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