CST E-News September 2006

Welcome to the September issue of CST's E-News, our new series of regular news updates. We hope that you find the contents relevant, interesting and informative. Any feedback and suggestions for future editions would be welcomed.

News in brief

CST MWS 2006B
Integral Equation solver
CST at EuMW
EDA links: AWR
Career opportunities
Diary

1. CST MWS 2006B

The release of CST STUDIO SUITE™ 2006B is approaching rapidly. Currently still in its beta testing phase, we expect roll out to begin in Q4 2006 to holders of a valid maintenance contract.

With this new release, users will experience the higher performance and robustness of the new Fast PBA mesher for CST MWS' Time Domain solver as well as the new flexible subgridding scheme with drastically reduced memory requirements. The transient solver engine is also the first module to run with Linux operating systems.

Besides the increased mesher and solver performance, the Frequency Domain solver now allows you to excite structures by plane waves and slanted ports.

Interoperability always has been a key concern for CST. Two new links are being introduced with CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® 2006B (CST MWS): to Mician's µWave Wizard mode matching software (through CST DESIGN STUDIO™), and to AWR's Microwave Office® circuit simulation tool.

In order to simulate realistic biasing of ferrites, coupled simulation between CST MWS' high frequency solvers and CST EM STUDIO®'s magneto-static solver has been implemented. The interface between the high frequency solvers and the thermal solver has been improved further.

And last but not least, check our upcoming EuMW 2006 press releases to learn more about hardware acceleration for CST MWS.

2. Integral Equation solver

If you are dealing with electrically large structures, you might be interested in testing CST's new Integral Equation solver based on the Multilevel Fast Multipole Method (MLFMM).

It is designed to facilitate tasks like antenna placement on an airplane (or car) and radar cross section (RCS) calculations of large scattering objects. The Integral Equation solver scales much better with the electrical structure size than traditional MoM solvers, this is further supported by its ability to use and mix 1st, 2nd, and 3rd order elements. This enables you to tackle structures much larger than 20 wavelengths.

It is seamlessly integrated in the CST DESIGN ENVIRONMENT™, allowing you to take advantage of the same easy-to-use modeler and frontend.

The Integral Equation solver will be available with CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® 2006B

3. CST at EuMW 2006

The European Microwave Exhibition is the largest trade show dedicated to RF and microwaves in Europe. Come and visit CST on booth #307, 309, 406 for an on-line demonstration and discussion of your applications. During the show, CST will be offering complementary workshops for both beginners and advanced users of CST MWS. Please check our website for more information and to register.

4. EDA links: CST MWS / AWR MWO interface

A new interface between CST MWS and AWR's Microwave Office® circuit design software will enable users of Microwave Office to export layout data easily into CST MWS, add 3D components, and re-import S-parameters into their circuit model. This interface will be available without additional charge to all customers using CST MWS 2006B and Microwave Office 2006.

Demonstrations of the new link will be given at the upcoming AWR road show. Further details can be found here: http://web.appwave.com/seminars

5. Career opportunities

CST is looking to recruit enthusiastic new members for its sales & support teams worldwide. Click here for further information:

Sales & Application Engineer, UK & Eire
Sales & Application Engineer, France
Sales & Application Engineer, Darmstadt, Germany
Application Engineer, Italy
Application Engineer, Malaysia / Singapore
Sales & Application Engineer, California, USA
Sales & Application Engineer, Boston, MA, USA

6. Diary

We are out and about at numerous events in September, so please come along and join us.

Workshops:

13th Sept., Manchester, UK, CST Connect Workshop Series
14th Sept., Manchester, UK, CST Advanced User Workshop
19th Sept., Rennes, France, CST Connect Workshop Series
27th Sept., Caselle Torinese (TO), Italy, CST Workshop on EMC & Large Structures

Exhibitions:

12-14th Sept., Manchester, UK, European Microwave Week
17-22nd Sept., Sinaia, Rumania, SCEE
19-21st Sept., Genova, Italy, Mediterranean Microwave Symposium 2006
24-28th Sept., Cannes, France, ECOC
26th Sept., Ascot, UK, Military & Aerospace Electronics Conference & Exhibition
27-28th Sept., Dortmund, Germany, Wireless Technologies
27-29th Sept., Desden, Germany, Analog 2006

You'll find more dates for your diary on our events page.

Your CST Team

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