Remcom has announced the integration of XFdtd Electromagnetic Simulation Software and Optenni Lab matching circuit optimization software. The Optenni addition enables XFdtd users to more easily generate a matching network topology and initial component values for their device. Once the topology is chosen and physically laid out on the PCB, XFdtd’s Circuit Element Optimizer completes the matching network design process by determining the optimal component values using full wave FDTD simulation, taking electromagnetic phenomena, such as coupling, into account.
Optenni Lab is a software package that provides fully automatic matching circuit generation and optimization routines. Once the full wave solver in XFdtd calculates the S-parameters and efficiency of an unmatched device, the results are fed into Optenni, which provides a choice of optimized matching circuit topologies that will meet the design criteria.
XFdtd’s Circuit Element Optimizer then picks up where other EM simulation programs leave off, taking the antenna matching schematic into the electromagnetic simulation and optimizing the lumped circuit elements directly in the physical matching circuit layout.
Optini plans to add its Lab matching circuit optimization software with leading EM and circuit simulators.
