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Commercial Electromagnetic Modeling Codes

The list below includes software for the calculation of static or quasi-static electric or magnetic fields as well as full-wave electromagnetic field solvers. In order to be included in this list, the software must use numerical techniques to solve some form of Maxwell's equations. Codes are grouped by company. Companies are listed alphabetically.

If you are familiar with other commercial EM modeling software that that should be added to the list, please send the name of the software, the name of the company that sells it, a one-sentence description, and a phone number, email address or hypertext link to CVEL-L@clemson.edu.

See also: Free Electromagnetic Modeling Codes

(Last update: November 7, 2009)


Advanced Electromagnetics

Belcamp, Maryland, USA
Phone: (410) 272-8862

GEMACS
a 3D hybrid MOM/UTD/FDFD code

Advantech Solutions SRL

Bucharest, ROMANIA
Phone: +40-(0)21 222 8275
Fax: +40-(0)21 745 1987
E-mail: office@advantec.ro

EMSolution
EMSolution is an electromagnetic modeling code developed by SSIL Inc.(Japan). Its capabilities include 3D static, AC and transient nonlinear electromagnetic analyses, coupled with complex circuitry and motion.

Agilent Technologies EEsof EDA

Phone: +1 (800) 829-4444
Fax: +1 (800) 829-4433

EMDS
Electromagnetic simulation of arbitrarily-shaped, passive three-dimensional structures using the Finite Element Method. EMDS is available either as a stand-alone tool, or integrated into Agilent's Advanced Design System (ADS), a suite of simulation tools for electronic design automation.
EMPro
Electromagnetic Professional (EMPro) is an FDTD EM simulator for analyzing the electromagnetic effects of RF and microwave components such as high-speed IC packages, antennas, on-chip and off-chip embedded passives and PCB interconnects.
Genesys EMPOWER
Genesys Empower is a planar-3D electromagnetic simulator based on the method of lines that analyzes circuit structures having rectangular features, such as SMT pads and interconnects. It is a component of Agilent's Genesys RF and Microwave Design Software.
ADS Momentum G2
ADS Momentum G2 is a method-of-moments, 3D-planar EM simulator, enhanced with NlogN and multi-threading solver algorithms. It is a component of Agilent's Advanced Design System (ADS).
Genesys Momentum GX
Genesys Momentum GX is a method-of-moments, 3D-planar EM simulator capable of modeling arbitrary shapes on multi-layer circuit boards. It is a component of Agilent's Genesys RF and Microwave Design Software.

AnSoft Corporation

Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Phone: (412) 261-3200

Maxwell
2D and 3D electrostatic, magnetostatic, and low-frequency magnetic finite element analysis codes for electro-mechanical designs.
Ansoft HFSS
3D full-wave finite element code (additional info at the Unofficial HFSS User Forum)
Q3D Extractor
A 3D static BEM code plus a 2D FEM code for extracting RLCG parameters from electrically small geometries.
SIwave
SIwave allows an analysis of the power and signal nets of the device to be generated from a physical description of the device, allowing engineers to model not only individual components, but also entire PCBs and package structures.
TPA
Turbo Package Analyzer(TPA) automates the analysis of semiconductor packages, including flip-chip, chip-scale package, and multiple-die system-in-package designs. The software features a multipole-accelerated Partial Element Equivalent Circuit (multi-PEEC) engine and an advanced model-reduction algorithm for fast simulations of high-speed traces.

ANSYS

Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Telephone: (412) 746-3304
Fax: (412) 514-9494

ANSYS Multiphysics
allows engineers to simulate the interaction between structural mechanics, heat transfer, fluid flow, acoustics and electromagnetics all within a single software product.
ANSYS Emag
a self-contained electromagnetic analysis package, simulates electromagnetic fields, electrostatics, circuits, and low and high frequency current conduction. Three types of analysis are possible:
. static magnetic analysis, both 2D and 3D
. harmonic magnetic analysis, both 2D and 3D
. transient magnetic analysis, both 2D and 3D.

Antenna Software Ltd.

Telephone:(+44) 1684 574057
Email: sales@antennasoftware.co.uk

ALDAS
Models antennas on structures using diffraction theory (GTD/UTD).
SELTIQ_3D
For analyzing antennas and structures of mixed dielectric and metal (EFIE/CFIE - Method of Moments)

Applied Simulation Technology

Applied Simulation Technology, Inc.
2025 Gateway Place, Suite 318
San Jose, CA 95110

Signal Integrity
  • ApsimSI - PCB: Advanced Signal Integrity Simulator for PCB
  • ApsimSI - IC: Advanced Signal Integrity Simulator for IC's
  • ApsimPI-LSI: Full Chip Power Integrity considering Silicon Substrate Effects
  • ApsimFDTD: 3D-full wave Electromagnetic Simulator
  • ApsimFDTD-SPICE: Full Wave Non-linear Signal Integrity and EMI Solution
  • ApsimFDTD-SPAR: Full Wave Electromagnetic Solver
  • ApsimDELTA-I: Ground/Power Plane Noise Simulator
EMI/EMC
  • ApsimSPE: Signal Integrity, Power Integrity and EMI Simulator.
  • ApsimRADIA: EMC/EMI Radiated Emission Noise Simulation.
  • ApsimRADIA-WB: Design Workbench for EMI Analysis.

Artech House

Norwood, MA USA
Phone: +1 781-769-9750

AWAS for Windows Version 2.0: Analysis of Wire Antennas and Scatterers
Low-cost moment-method software for analyzing wire geometries
CFDTD Conformal Finite-Difference Time-Domain Maxwell's Equation Solver
A three-dimensional FDTD solver that supports up to 220 x 220 x 220 nodes. Works with conformal mesh generators such as AutoCad, GID, FEMAP and PATRAN.
EMPLAN: Electromagnetic Analysis of Printed Structures in Planar Layered Media
EMPLAN is a low-cost tool for design engineers who can use it to simulate radiating structures in layered media.
WIPL-D
This MS Windows software employs a method of moments technique and allows you to define the geometry of a structure as a combination of wires, plates, material objects and more, and provides information on that structure's current distribution, far-field radiation pattern, near-field distribution, and multiport admittance, impedances, and/or s-parameters at pre-defined feed points.

Aurora Software

Aurora Software and Testing
Phone: +34 96 354 32 63
Fax: +34 96 354 36 33
Email: contact@aurorasat.es

FEST3D
FEST3D is a microwave circuit analysis tool that employs the boundary element method. It also employs a Boundary Integral-Resonant Mode Expansion (BI-RME) method to extract the modal components of waveguides with arbitrary cross-section.

AWR Corporation

1960 E. Grand Avenue
Suite 430
El Segundo, CA, USA 90245
Phone: (310) 726-3000
FAX: (310) 726-3005
Email: info@awrcorp.com

Microwave Office
Microwave Office design suite is a design environment that incorporates: circuit simulators, EM analysis tools, layout-vs.-schematic checks, statistical design capabilities, and parametric cell libraries with built-in DRC. The primary applications for this software are microwave IC, MMIC, package, module, and PCB designs. The EM analysis tools include AWR's own EM Sight™ 3D planar MoM closed boundary solver as well as access to MOM 3D planar and FEA/FDTD 3D EM codes from third party vendors like CST, Vector Fields, Zeland and more.
Axiem
AXIEM open boundary, 3D planar MOM software is the most recent addition to AWR's product portfolio.  AXIEM 3D planar EM simulator is used for modeling planar structures common to RF PCBs and modules, LTCC, MMIC, and RFIC designs.
Analog Office Design Suite
Analog Office is architected and optimized for analog and RFIC designs. It leverages AWR's unified data model to provide designers with a concurrent, interconnect-driven, and RF-aware design methodology for integration of RFIC design technologies from system to final tape-out, including: design capture, synthesis, simulation, optimization, layout, extraction, and verification.  The EM analysis includes OEA International's NET-AN 3D RCLK parasitic extraction tool as well as to other EM tools via AWR's EM Socket.
SI Design Suite
The AWR SI design suite is a co-chip/package/module EDA design platform developed to address cross-domain signal integrity issues inherent in the design of high-frequency products. As an offshoot of the Microwave Office software suite, AWR SI offers FEA, MOM, and FDTD, whether 3D planar or arbitrary 3D, low-frequency (quasi-static) or full wave, through the AWR EM Socket open interface.

Computer and Communication Unlimited

State College, PA, USA
Phone: +1 (814) 441-9403

GEMS
Parallel FDTD software that supports multiple core processors and multiple processor systems.

Computer Simulation Technology

Darmstadt, GERMANY
Tel: +49 6151 7303 0
Fax: +49 6151 718057
e-mail: info@cst.de

CST Microwave Studio
ECAD tool for HF applications, using a "Perfect Boundary Approximation". Includes time-domain and frequency-domain solver modules.
CST Cable Studio
CST Cable Studio is a collection of time and frequency domain codes for analyzing wires and cable harnesses. It is based on a tool that was formerly known as Simlab CableMod.
CST PCB Studio
CST PCB Studio is a collection of field solvers (3D PEEC, 2D/3D BEM) for printed circuit board modeling. It was formerly marketed by Simlab and called PCBMod.
CST EM Studio
A general purpose Quasi-static 2D and 3D solver. Contains both electrostatic and magnetostatic modules.
MAFIA 4
A general purpose 3D solver for Maxwell's Equations, from DC to THz. Based on the "Finite Integration Method (FIM)".
CST Microstripes
TLM-based full-wave modeling software for microwave and antenna design.

COMSOL

Burlington, MA
Tel: +1-781-273-3322
Fax: +1-781-273-6603
e-mail: info@comsol.com

COMSOL Multiphysics AC/DC Module
2D and 3D static, and low-frequency (quasi-static) analysis tools based on the finite element method. The AC/DC Module provides an interface with SPICE circuit lists where you choose circuit elements for further 2D or 3D FEA modeling.
COMSOL Multiphysics RF Module
Full-wave field solver based on the finite element method. The RF Module includes postprocessing features such as S-parameter computation and far-field analysis.

Efield AB

Finlandsgatan 62
Box 87 SE-164 94 Kista.
Phone: +46 (0)8 410 03 510
Email: contact@efieldsolutions.com

efield 51
An environment for computing with parallelized solvers for distributed and shared memory multi-processor architectures and out-of-core support. The environment includes FDTD, FETD, MOM and MLFMM solvers.

Electro Magnetic Applications

Electro Magnetic Applications, Inc.
PO Box 260263
Denver, CO USA 80226
Phone: 303 980 0070
Fax: 303 980 0836
Email: info@electromagneticapplications.com

EMA3D
EMA3D is a general purpose, 3D FDTD code.
MHarness
MHarness is a FDTD code for multi-conductor transmission lines and cable harnesses.

ElectromagneticWorks, Inc.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Phone: 514 489 5473
Fax: 514 489 3505
Email: info@electromagneticworks.com

ATLASS
Advanced Transmission Line Analysis and Synthesis System
EMS
EMS is a 3D-field simulator for low frequency electromagnetic and electromechanical applications. EMS combines a high level of functionality and accuracy with ease-of-use, and is applicable in a wide variety of designs.
HFWorks
HFWorks is a fully 3D field simulator for RF, Microwave, and Wireless applications. These applications include: dielectric resonators, oscillators, tuning elements, waveguide twists and bends, waveguide tees, directional couplers, isolators, circulators, attenuators, antennas, high Q filters, etc.

ELF Corporation

Osaka 556-0004, JAPAN
FAX +81-6-6634-2803

ELF/MAGIC
A 3D Non-Linear Static Magnetic Field Solver (Japanese language)
ELFIN
A 3D Non-Linear Static Electric Field Solver (Japanese language)

EM Photonics, Inc.

Newark, DE, USA
Phone: +1 302 456 9003
Email: info@emphotonics.com

EMPLab
EMPLab is a general-purpose, FDTD simulation environment for simulating electromagnetic wave propagation built on top of MATLAB. Includes EMPLab 2D and EMPLab 3D.
FastFDTD
FastFDTD is a free 2D and 3D accelerated FDTD solver based on GPU (graphics card) technology. The FastFDTD toolkit contains all files and documentation necessary to accelerate your FDTD computations using a simple input file format. No proprietary hardware is required to utilize the FastFDTD toolkit. Rather, individuals are free to use any supported graphics card of their choosing (the installer will verify that your graphics card is supported).

EM Scientific, Inc.

Carson City, NV
Phone: (702) 888-9449
Fax: (702) 883-2384

Expert MININEC Professional
MININEC is a method of moments computer code for the analysis of thin wire antennas. It solves a potential integral formulation using a Galerkin routine with triangular basis functions. It sports an easy to use user interface and is an application program for the Microsoft Windows environment.

EM Software and Systems

Stellenbosch, South Africa
Phone: +27 21 880 1880
Fax: +27 21 880 1880

FEKO
A suite of numerical modeling codes including a boundary element method codes that employs a multi-level fast multipole method (MLFMM) accelerator for large problems. The suite also includes a finite element code and high frequency PO/GO/UTD codes.

EMAG Technologies, Inc.

775 Technology Drive - Suite 300
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108
Phone: (734) 996-3624
Toll Free: 800-996-EMAG
Fax: (734) 996-3623

EM.CUBE
A modular EM design environment built around an FDTD solver. EMPiCASSO has been integrated into this environment and no longer exists as a stand-alone tool.

EMCoS

Tbilisi, GEORGIA
Phone: +995 32 38-90-91
Fax: +995 32 38-90-92
E-mail: info@emcos.com

EMC Studio
EMC Studio is a program suite for the calculation of the EMC behavior of large systems like automobiles, ships or planes. It focuses on the EMC calculation of cable harnesses with nonlinear terminations and antennas in combination with metallic surface structures. The program combines 2D and 3D field calculation methods with transmission line codes and network analysis. 2D MAS (Static2D), 3D dynamic MoM (TriD), 3D static MoM (Static3D), MTL codes for cable cross-talk/ coupling/ radiation calculation and a network analysis code are combined in this program suite.
TriD
TriD is a 3D electromagnetic code in the frequency domain using MoM based on the EFIE. Arbitrary metallic surfaces may be represented with a combination of triangles, wires and surface to wire junctions. The software runs under Windows and Linux. The out-of-core solver calculates large problems on simple PC's. A parallel in-core and out-of-core solver is also available.
Static3D
A 3D electrostatic MoM code for capacitance and inductance calculation of metallic wire and surface structures.
Static2D
Static2D is a 2D MAS (Method of Auxiliary Sources) code for capacitance and inductance calculation of cable bundles.

EMMCAP

Tucuman, Argentina

XPERTO
XPERTO is a user-oriented 3D "Curved" MoM software for the modeling of arbitrarily shaped wire structures and for the computation of their electromagnetic behavior, including radiation and scattering problems. The code is based in a Method of Moments formulation with curved segments. It is intended for solving problems in the areas of antenna analysis and design, EMC applications, transmission lines and non radiating networks. The modeling of the structure can be performed by means of the EMMCAP specific 3D-tools. System responses can be computed in a frequency sweep and plotted in 2D and 3D graphical representations.

EMS-Plus

Durham, NC USA
sales@ems-plus.com

EZ-FDTD
Moderately priced 3D FDTD software with a user-friendly interface and ability to create animations.
EZ-EMC
Moderately priced introductory 3D FDTD software with a user-friendly interface and ability to create animations.
EZ-Powerplane
Cavity resonance model calculator for determining circuit board power/ground plane impedances.

ESI Group

PAM-CEM
3D FDTD-based simulation software with pre- and post-processing tools for working with vehicle designs created on CAD systems.
CRIPTE
A tool for electromagnetic cable harness interference simulations. Designed by ONERA engineers and now marketed by ESI Group, CRIPTE has been used on cars, planes and metros.

EZNEC

Roy Lewallen
w7el@eznec.com

EZNEC
A Windows-based code that runs a graphical user interface over the NEC2 or NEC4 codes. NEC2 and NEC4 are moment method codes that excel at wire grid modeling. NEC4 distribution is limited.

Faustus Scientific Corporation

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Phone: (250) 598-2834
Fax: (250) 721-6230

MEFiSTo-3D
A 3D TLM code that is available in three different price ranges. MEFiSTo-3D Nova is free. MEFiSTo-3D Academic and Pro Versions are also available at a higher cost.

Field Precision

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Phone: 505-220-3975
Fax: 505-294-0222

AMaze
Commercial 3D finite-element software, conformal hexahedron meshes. Unified mesh generator and solution packages for electrostatics, magnetostatics and charged-particle devices.
TriComp
Commercial 2D finite-element software, conformal triangular mesh. Solution packages for electrostatics, magnetostatics, pulsed magnets, permanent magnets, charged particle guns, thermal transport, frequency and time-domain electromagnetics.

Grating Solver Development Company

Allen, TX, USA
Phone: (972)727-8008 (voice/FAX)
email: gsolver@gsolver.com

Antenna Solver
Antenna Solver (copyright 1999 by Dr. David Fluckiger, KJ5AT) calculates the current density and charges for general wire structures including surfaces. The Antenna Solver calculation engine (algorithms) are modeled directly on the public domain NEC2 code (Numerical Electromagnetics Code - Method of Moments) from the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. The original NEC2 code was written in FORTRAN, and that user interface is control card deck oriented. The NEC2 algorithms in Antenna Solver have been entirely rewritten in C++, using dynamic array allocation.
Grating Solver
GSOLVER calculates diffracted fields and diffraction efficiencies from plane wave illumination of grating structures.

IBM Electromagnetic Field Solver Suite of Tools

The IBM Electromagnetic Field Solver Suite of Tools includes full-wave two-dimensional and three-dimensional and quasi-static two-dimensional and three-dimensional tools. The suite includes:

  • LCGEN - a quasi-static, three-dimensional solver for inductance and capacitance employing a PEEC formulation.
  • EMSIM - a 3D, full-wave, frequency-domain, method-of-moment, electromagnetic solver. It calculates electric and magnetic fields, current distribution, or input impedance.
  • PROPCALC - a 3D, full-wave frequency-domain method-of-moment, eigenvalue based electromagnetic solver that can provide R(f)L(f)C(f)G(f) parameters per unit length for periodic features; includes advanced iterative solution; best used for mesh planes, homogeneous and inhomogeneous waveguides.
  • EMSURF - a three-dimensional full-wave, frequency-domain, method-of-moment, electromagnetic solver. It uses a surface impedance-based solution technique and has a built-in Debye algorithm for modeling dielectric loss. A built-in FFT algorithm is included for calculating time-domain waveforms.
  • CSURF - a hierarchical capacitance solver for large numbers of unknowns and multiple dielectrics. It operates 10 to 175 times faster than LCGEN and commercial tools.
  • AQUAIA - an on-chip analysis tool that performs frequency-dependent transmission line analysis. The tool extracts the per-unit length parameters of any layer in a large on-chip wiring stack based on actual processing layers and dimensions using the built-in 2D and 3D EIP full-wave electromagnetic field solvers, CZ2D, EMITPKG, and CSURF. The results are then directly fed into the built-in circuit simulator to get performance parameters such as delay, rise time, crosstalk, common-mode noise, and eye diagrams.

IMST GmbH

Kamp-Lintfort, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)2842-981-0
Fax: +49 (0)2842-981-199

Empire XCcel
Empire XCcel is a commercial 3D FDTD speed-optimized code with a 3D geometry editor and mesh generator which covers passive RF applications. A free 30-day trial version is available.

Infolytica Corporation

Montreal, Canada
phone: (514) 849-8752
fax: (514) 849-4239

MagNet
2D/3D magnetostatic, electrostatic, eddy current, and transient analysis
ElecNet
a low-frequency electric field solver

Integrated Engineering Software

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Phone: 204-632-5636

MAGNETO
A 2-D magnetostatic solver with permanent magnet (PM) capability using the boundary element method (BEM).
ELECTRO
A 2-D electrostatic solver using the boundary element method (BEM).
AMPERES
A 3-D magnetostatic solver with permanent magnet (PM) capability using the boundary element method (BEM).
COULOMB
A 3-D electrostatic solver using the boundary element method (BEM).
OERSTED
A 2-D low-frequency time-harmonic magnetic field solver with permanent magnet (PM) capability using the boundary element method (BEM).
FARADAY
A 3-D time-harmonic eddy current analysis based on the (BEM).
SINGULA
A 3-D code employing the boundary element method.

JCMwave GmbH

D-85640 Putzbrunn, Germany
Tel.: +49(0)89 460 65 68,
E-mail: info@jcmwave.com

JCMharmony, JCMmode, JCM resonance
These finite element codes are designed to model the propagation and scattering of light.

The Japan Research Institute,Ltd.

16 Ichibancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0082, Japan.
Tel: +81 3 3288 4765
Fax: +81 3 3288 4770
E-mail: cae-info@sci.jri-sol.co.jp

JMAG-Studio
JMAG-Studio set of 2 and 3D finite element codes with a user-friendly interface. Currently it can analyze the following kinds of problems:
- magnetic fields (frequency & time domain)
- heat conduction
- electric fields
- electric charge distributions
- electromagnetic waves
- superconductor materials
- coupled analysis involving circuits, heat, motion and structural analysis.

Lumerical Solutions, Inc.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Tel: +1 604 733 9006
Fax: +1 604 733 3188
E-mail: info@lumerical.com

FDTD Solutions
Full wave FDTD software for optical applications.

MagneForce Software Systems

Hamburg, NY, USA
Tel: (716) 646-8577
Fax: (716) 646-1973
Email: info@magneforcess.com

MagneForce Software Systems
MagneForce Software Systems produces simulation software for the rotating electric machine industry. This software simulates both the machine and its corresponding drive/load circuitry together to capture the full effects of magnetic, spatial and time based harmonics. The software employs finite element analysis for the magnetic field calculation and various time based circuit solution techniques for the circuit simulation portion of the analysis.

Magsoft Corporation

Troy, NY
Tel: (518) 271-1352
Fax: (518) 276-6380

FLUX2D
Flux2D is a FEM-based CAD program for static, low-frequency, or transient problems.
FLUX3D
Flux3D is a 3D FEM code for solving static, low-frequency, or transient problems.

MEM Research

Spoltore, Italy
Phone +39 347 8279009

EM3DS
This tool is an integral equation-based full wave simulator, using a new approach: the Generalized Transverse Resonance Diffraction (GTRD), addressing the solution of quasi-planar multilayer circuits. Unlike the several MoM techniques commercially available for planar structures, this simulator is a truly 3D device, accounting for the finite-thickness and finite conductivity of the conductors.

Microwave Innovation Group

Fahrenheitstr. 11
D-28359 Bremen
Germany
Phone: +49 421 22 37 96 60
Fax: +49 421 22 37 96 30
E-mail: mig@mig-germany.com

WASP-NET
This software is designed primarily for analysis of microwave circuits and components and utilizes a mode-matching technique. It also includes finite element, finite difference and method of moments solvers.

Nittany Scientific

Hollister, CA, USA
Phone/Fax (408) 634-0573

NEC-WIN PRO
inexpensive 3D full-wave moment-method software based on the NEC2 code that runs on a PC. It supports 3D visualization, Smith charts, polar plots, and rectangular plots. It also supports spreadsheet style entry, copy, cut & paste and many Windows features. The cost is less than (US)$500.

Non-Linear Control Strategies

Tucson, AZ 85705
Phone: (520) 888-5920
Fax: (520) 888-5901
Email: info@nlcstr.com

Sim3D_Max™ FDTD Simulator
This simulation package, which implements the FDTD algorithm on a non-uniform mesh, is designed to run as a stand-alone program as well as in conjunction with DIFFRACT™. It solves for PML, PEC, periodic and Floquet-Bloch boundary conditions and can be used with plane wave, Gaussian, dipole, waveguide and user-defined sources.

Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)

OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
Le Seine Saint-Germain
12, boulevard des Îles
F-92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux
FRANCE

MAXWELL3
MAXWELL3 is a linear, time domain, finite element code designed for simulation of electromagnetic fields interacting with three-dimensional objects. The simulation region is discretized into 6-sided, 8-noded elements which need not form a logically regular grid. Scatterers may be perfectly conducting or dielectric. MAXWELL3 can be run in a two-dimensional mode or on infinitesimally thin geometries.

OptEM Engineering, Inc.

Calgary, Canada
Phone (403) 289-0499

OptEM Cable Designer
OptEM Cable Designer is a frequency dependent quasi-stationary EM analysis tool for modeling multi-conductor flex, unshielded twisted-pair and twisted-pair cables. Output results generated include S-parameter plots such as FEXT, NEXT, and return loss; text reports with transmission parameters, attenuation, and characteristic impedance; also available are 3D viewing, W-element SPICE models, temperature variation analysis, and a measurement modification facility for back annotation of measurement data.
OptEM Inspector
OptEM Inspector is a layout-to-circuit device and interconnect RC extraction tool for deep submicron (DSM) analog, digital and mixed signal IC designs with the ability to extract device substrate resistance in addition to the interconnect resistance and 3D capacitances. The extraction methods used by Inspector incorporate 3D and heuristic 2D techniques. Circuit reduction techniques are used to reduce the size and complexity of the circuit models generated. The circuit models include 2D and 3D capacitance, interconnect resistance, substrate resistance, and device parasitics.

PDE Solutions

10620 E 46th Ave
Spokane Valley, WA 99206 USA
Phone: +1 (509) 891-0160
FAX: +1 (509) 891-0239
Email: sales@pdesolutions.com

Flex PDE
FlexPDE solves linear or nonlinear partial differential equation systems in one, two or three space dimensions with moving mesh capability. Steady state, time dependent or eigenvalues. 3D domains are layered extrusions of 2D figures. Student version is available free of charge for educational use.

Physware

600 108th Ave NE
Ste 1035
Bellevue, WA 98004
Phone: (800) 686-5213
Email: info@physware.com

PhysWave
PhysWave is 3D full-wave software employing a BEM technique optimized for circuit board and chip package modeling. It is designed to exploit multicore, cluster, and hybrid computing architectures.

Poynting Antennas

Wendywood, 2144 South Africa
Phone: +27 11 262 5155
Fax: +27 11 262 5156

SuperNEC
SuperNEC is a hybrid Method of Moment (MoM) / Unified Theory of Diffraction (UTD) antenna analysis program. Dr Derek Nitch and Dr André Fourie from Poynting Software designed and developed SuperNEC. The Matlab graphical interface that sets this product apart from the rest was developed by Dr Nitch. SuperNEC 2.3 now incorporates a Genetic Algorithm optimizer and the "Simply Sparse" solver core by Dr Francis Canning, as well as the Sparse Iterative Method (SIM).

Quantic Laboratories Inc.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 0X1
Phone: (204) 942-4000 or 1-800 665 0235 (U.S. only)
Fax: (204) 957-1158

Compliance
Use Compliance for screening PCB layouts for crosstalk, ringing, time delays, overshoot, undershoot, settling time and noise margin violations. Locate high-emission regions and identify the nets that cause EMC violations.

QWED

QWED Sp. z o.o.
ul. Nowowiejska 28 lok. 32
02-010 Warsaw
POLAND
tel.: (+48) 22 625 73 19
fax.: (+48) 22 621 62 99
email: info@qwed.com.pl

QuickWave-V2D
QuickWave-V2D, further also referred by an abbreviation QW-V2D, utilizes a conformal FDTD method in a vector two-dimensional formulation, expressed in cylindrical coordinates.
QuickWave-3D
QuickWave-3D, further also referred by an abbreviation QW-3D, is a three-dimensional electromagnetic simulation package based on a conformal FDTD method and supplemented with a range of models for curved boundaries, media interfaces, modal excitation, and parameter extraction.
QW-CX
QW-CX is a a specialized 2D package for the analysis and design of coaxial connectors. A full-wave approach is utilized, allowing for such effects as tapers, gaps in inner connector, re-entrant cavities.

Remcom Inc.

315 S. Allen St. Suite 222
State College, PA 16801
Phone: 814-861-1299
Fax: 814-861-1308
xfdtd@remcom.com
wireless@remcom.com

XFDTD
3D full-wave Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) software with an X/Motif graphical interface.
XGtd
a general purpose ray-based electromagnetic analysis tool suitable for high frequency radiation, antenna, and EMC applications. XGtd combines GTD, UTD, and Surface Rays.

RSoft Design Group, Inc.

Ossining, NY 10562
Phone: 1.914.923.2164
E-Mail: info@rsoftdesign.co.uk

FullWAVE
FullWAVE is a simulation tool for studying the propagation of light in a wide variety of photonic structures including integrated and fiber-optic waveguide devices as well as circuits and nanophotonic devices such as photonic crystals. The software employs the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method for the full-vector simulation of photonic structures.
FemSIM
FemSIM is a generalized mode solver based on the Finite Element Method (FEM) that can calculate transverse or cavity modes of an arbitrary structure on a non-uniform mesh.

SAIC

10260 Campus Point Dr.
San Diego, CA 92121

EMTOOLS
A Computational Electromagnetic Modeling (CEM) software suite comprised of 11 different specialized codes. One of them, RCSSIG, is a high-frequency physical optics code. Another, SIGLBC, is a 3D moment method code for radar cross section computation.
URBANA
A CEM tool for simulating wireless propagation and near field radar sensors in complex environments. The underlying ray-tracing physics engine aggregates Physical Optics, Geometric Optics, and Diffraction Physics.

Schmid & Partner Engineering AG

Zurich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 1 245 9700
Fax: +41 1 245 9779

SEMCAD
Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) / thermal solver combined with a GUI for analysis, optimization and synthesis of antennas embedded in complex environments, EMC and dosimetry

Sigrity, Inc.

4675 Stevens Creek Blvd.
Suite 130
Santa Clara, CA 95051
Tel: +1 408 260 9344
Fax: +1 408 260 9342

SPEED2000
a special-purpose FDTD solver for modeling interactions in multi-layer chip packages and printed circuit boards.
PowerSI
frequency domain analysis of chip packages and circuit board geometries

Simulation Technology & Applied Research

Simulation Technology & Applied Research, Inc.
11520 N. Port Washington Rd.
Suite 201
Mequon, WI 53092

Analyst
Analyst is a finite element electromagnetic analysis package. The system features Python-based scripting and parallel solvers that utilize networked and cluster computing resources.
Features:
  • Native parametric ACIS®-based geometry via ObjectCAD.
  • Automated triangle and tetrahedral meshing via ObjectMesh
  • 3-D driven frequency analysis
  • 3-D electrostatics for "internal" problems
  • Advanced post-processing and visualization of all solver data via ObjectResults
  • Design optimization capabilities via ObjectDesigner.

Sonnet Software Inc.

North Syracuse, NY, USA
Phone: +1 (315) 453-3096
Toll Free: 1-877-7SONNET

Sonnet Lite
free software for modeling predominantly planar structures.
Sonnet Suites
3D moment method software optimized for predominantly planar structures. (e.g. microwave and millimeter-wave integrated circuits and modules or even multi-layer PCBs)
CST Microwave Studio
full 3D electromagnetic analysis of microwave circuit structures

SoPWorX, Inc.

Marietta, GA, USA
Phone: +1 (404) 455-6721

Sphinx
Sphinx is a frequency domain simulation tool based on a proprietary method the company refers to as the Multi-layered Finite Difference Method. The tool is optimized for power and signal integrity simulations of integrated circuit packaging structures.

Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg

Hamburg, Germany

CONCEPT II
A 3D electromagnetic code using a frequency-domain MoM method based on the EFIE and MFIE. Metallic and dielectric structures can be modeled. Applications include simulation of shielding problems (with and without apertures), cables and lines within metallic structures (combination of MoM and transmission line theory), and Printed Circuit Boards. For treating large structures, the code has been hybridized (MoM and Physical Optics). The software runs on PC platforms under LINUX and on workstations under UNIX variants. The code has been parallelized for multiprocessor PCs and PC clusters. GUI monitors facilitate the application.

Tech-X Corporation

Boulder, CO 80303
Phone: +1 (303) 444-2416

OOPIC Pro
OOPIC Pro is a particle-in-cell plasma physics simulation code. It has electrostatic and electromagnetic field solvers for 2D geometries in both x-y (slab) and r-z (cylindrical) coordinates, and includes Monte Carlo collision and ionization models.
VORPAL
VORPAL (Versatile Plasma Simulation Code) is a suite of tools for doing 1D, 2D and 3D parallel electromagnetic simulation of charged fluids and particles.

Tera Analysis

Tarzana, CA, USA
Phone: (818) 831-9662

Quickfield
a relatively easy-to-use 2D finite element modeling code. A shareware version for students is available.

Teri Software

Lincoln, TX 78948-0277, USA
Tel: (979) 542-7952
E-mail: support@antennamodel.com

Antenna Model
A general-purpose antenna-modeling environment based on the Mini-Numerical Electromagnetic Code (MININEC). It can be used to analyze wire antennas in free space, over perfect ground, or over real-world grounds with user-specified conductivity and dielectric constant.

The Ohio State University Electroscience Laboratory

ESP V5.4
ESP is an acronym for Electromagnetic Surface Patch code. This is one of the original BEM codes for electromagnetic analysis. The current version is available for $500, but it is not distributed outside the U.S. The ESP5 code can treat geometries consisting of: thin wires with finite conductivity, dielectric shells and lumped loads,perfectly conducting or thin dielectric polygonal plates (via a sheet impedance approximation), polygonal dielectric volumes, wire/wire wire/plate plate/plate and dielectric volume/dielectric volume junctions. Excitation can be either by a voltage generator in the wires and plates, by known impressed electric or magnetic currents or by an incident plane wave.

ThinkWireless, Inc.

QuickNEC
Fast Geometry generation for antenna simulations. Can be used to generate geometries for NEC simulations.

Vector Fields Inc.

Aurora, IL, USA
Oxford, UK

OPERA-2d
2D FEM software for electrostatics and magnetostatics, including eddy current effects, motional induced currents, and space charge effects.
OPERA-3d
Pre and post processor for 3D EM analysis
CONCERTO
3D FDTD code employing conformal meshing

Weidingler Associates Inc.

New York, NY, USA
Phone: (415) 949-3010

EMFlex
a 3D finite element time-domain solver for Maxwell's equations, with integrated pre- and post-processing tools.

John Wiley & Sons

New York, NY, USA
Phone: (212) 850-6000
Fax: (212) 850-6088
Email: info@wiley.com

MaX-1
MaX-1 is a graphic platform for computational electromagnetics containing tools for the visualization and animation of electromagnetic fields as well as numeric, semi-analytic and analytic Maxwell techniques. MaX-1 is partially based on the Multiple Multipole (MMP) technique and partially based on the Generalized Finite Difference (GFD) scheme. It is distributed on CD by John Wiley & Sons, but it was developed and is supported by the Computational Optics Group at ETH Zurich. For more information and for technical support, visit the web page at http://max-1.ethz.ch/.

WIPL-D

Serbia, Europe
Telephone: +381 11 2124 656
Fax: +381 11 301 56 55
E-mail: contactus@wipl-d.com

WIPL-D Pro
A frequency domain Method of Moments code for analyzing arbitrary 3D structures.
WIPL-D Microwave Pro
A tool that integrates WIPL-D Pro 3D EM solver and WIPL-D Optimizer.
Time-Domain Solver
A time-domain add-on tool for WIPL-D Pro 3D EM Solver for transient analysis of 3D structures. The time-domain response is calculated based on frequency domain simulation in WIPL-D Pro and the Fourier transform. The tool is integrated into WIPL-D Pro so the frequency domain simulation and conversion to time-domain are performed automatically.

Zeland Software

Fremont, CA 94538
Tel:510-623-7162
Fax:510-623-7135

IE3D
a full wave, method of moment, 3D and planar electromagnetic simulation and optimization package for circuit and antenna applications.
Fidelity
a full-wave, 3D FDTD electromagnetic simulation package for circuit and antenna applications.