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ANALYST™
Overview
Analyst - AWR's Recently Acquired Parallelized 3D FEM EM Technology
Analysis of EM fields in complex structures, such as complete Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs), densely-populated RF circuit boards, and multifunction modules, frequently requires large amounts of memory and processing power that can overburden even the most capable of today's "high-end" workstations. Many of these problems can be solved, but with limited accuracy for want of greater system resources. Analyst software addresses this deficiency by employing scalable decomposition algorithms (spectral and domain) to optimize cluster computing resources, resulting in dramatically reduced computation times, improved accuracy, and a greater return on investment in computer hardware.
With spectral decomposition, the entire structure (and its many unknowns) is sent to multiple computers, each tackling the problem at a specific frequency or range of frequencies. This significantly reduces computation time but does not increase the accuracy of the solution because each computer must still process the entire structure. Unique among FEM solvers, Analyst also employs domain decomposition, which greatly diminishes this limitation by "decomposing" the structure into multiple pieces (and thus fewer unknowns), and allowing smaller problems to be analyzed on multiple computers. By simultaneously employing both spectral and domain decomposition, Analyst increases by orders of magnitude the structural complexity that can be solved (tens of millions of unknowns are possible) using even relatively modest computational resources, while still achieving exceptional accuracy. Analyst automatically tailors the structure for analysis by both techniques and dynamically allocates processors and memory to optimally solve the problem. Once processing is complete, the software "recomposes" it to provide a single result.
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