Q3D Extractor Getting Started Guides

Q3D Extractor documentation includes the following Getting Started Guides:

• Getting Started with 2D Extractor: Grounded Coplanar Waveguide Model

  This Getting Started Guide leads you step-by-step through creating, solving, and analyzing the results of a parameterized 2D model. By following the steps in this guide, you will learn how to perform the following tasks in 2D Extractor:

  • Drawing a geometric model.
  • Modifying a model’s design parameters.
  • Assigning conductors.
  • Reducing Matrices.
  • Specifying solution settings for a design.
  • Validating a design’s setup.
  • Running a 2D Extractor simulation.
  • Creating a plot of results.

• Getting Started with Q3D Extractor: PCB Via Model

This Getting Started Guide leads you step-by-step through creating, solving, and analyzing the results of a parameterized 3D model representing a via on a Printed Circuit Board. By following the steps in this guide, you will learn how to perform the following tasks in Q3D Extractor:

• Drawing a geometric model.
• Setting up vias and traces.
• Modifying a model's design parameters.
• Assigning variables to a model's design parameters.
• Specifying solution settings for a design.
• Validating a design's setup.
• Running a simulation.
• Creating a plot of results.

• Getting Started Guide: Cable Modeling Solutions

  This Getting Started Guide leads you through a cable modeling solution implemented using dynamic/data links between HFSS, 2D Extractor, and Circuit. A cable harness in HFSS is modeled as a single external field source based on quasi-static simulation of each cable cross-section in 2D Extractor and an analysis of the cable network in Circuit. The magnitude and distribution of the fields along each cable section is determined by the voltages and currents at the ends of each section, and then transmission line model is applied to propagate these fields along the cable length.

  By following the steps in this guide, you will learn the following steps and data transfers:

  • 2D Extractor
  • Solving the cable cross-section.
  • Sending a transmission line model for the cable network solution.
  • Sending transmission line modes and fields for the 3D cable solution.
  • Circuit
  • Defining a step voltage on the appropriate ports on the circuit schematic.
  • Solving the cable network.
  • Sending v and i at the ends of the cable for the 3D cable solution.
  • HFSS
  • Mapping fields onto the 3D cable, and solving the emissions from the cable assembly.