WIPL-D Microwave Pro Introduces

WIPL-D Microwave v2.0 is an important upgrade from v1.1 in terms of speed of circuit simulation. The overall simulation of circuits consisting of ideal components is at least 10 times faster, and for closed-form components at least 15 times faster.

The main new features are:

• New component description technology leads to multifold acceleration of S-parameters calculation

• Latest library routines used for faster circuit simulation

• Reduced overhead computations in optimization cycles

• Stored Range settings and Zoom Area option in the Graph window

• Link to Time Domain Solver

WIPL-D Microwave v1.1 is a slight alteration of v1.0, which features:

• Q-factor lumped element models

• Link to Filter Designer and Array Designer

While v1.0 featured only the Lite version of Filter Designer, v1.1 links with professional tools for filter and antenna array design.

The features introduced with professional version v1.0:

• No limits on circuit size - circuits are simulated regardless of the number of nodes, components, or component ports.

• Modular modeling of complex circuits - hierarchical circuit modeling is enabled through usage of subcircuit components. Provided encapsulation simplifies the modeling and handling of complex circuits.

• Mode-matching based rectangular waveguide library - provides very accurate models of waveguide discontinuities that are much faster than 3D EM models. Number of modes taken into account at discontinuity characterization is user-definable.

• Coplanar waveguide library - including 3D EM and closed-form models of discontinuities.

• Smart simulation of EM and mode-matching components - circuit solver saves the results of previously done EM or mode-matching simulations and re-uses them when possible. This option is very useful in circuits including several identical components, or in optimization cycles with a low number of optimization variables.

• Filter Designer Lite - tool for easy LC filter design supports two approximations (Butterworth and Chebyshev). Filter Designer Pro will be released in future featuring more approximations as well as physical filter implementations like stepped-impedance, shunt-stub, edge-coupled, hairpin, combline,...

• Improved visualization of results - graph markers allow easy reading of specific points from 2D graphs. Tabular listing of results is improved by adding the Magnitude/Phase display capability.

• New idealized components - independent floating sources, dependent sources (VCVS,...), generic impedance and admittance, voltmeters.