Several software plugins that connect with Ansys Electronics Desktop (AEDT) provide an easy method to drive design variation studies of AEDT simulations.
Ansys Electronics Desktop (AEDT) is a comprehensive platform of finite element method (FEM) solvers for simulating electromagnetic fields and offering functionality for the design and simulation of various electrical, electronic, and electromagnetic devices. It is a unified interface allowing for multiple models of different solver types to co-exist within one AEDT project. The integration plugin for AEDT allows you to create process integration setups for making AEDT projects (or model branches within projects) subject to design variation by optiSLang.
The word design has two very different meanings in AEDT and optiSLang. In AEDT, adding a design to the project means inserting a Maxwell, HFSS, Circuit (and so on) model. If you start with an RMXprt design, then add a Maxwell-2D model, and finally clone the Maxwell model so results from the Maxwell model are under two different load conditions simultaneously, then three designs are said to be in the AEDT project. In optiSLang, by contrast, different designs mean variations created from parametric models when investigating what happens when design parameter values are changed. Therefore, design variations of a parametric setup mean the same thing in both programs.
This documentation uses design variations to mean the evaluation of the same model or project under changed design parameters, and model branches (in the project tree) or design branches (in the project tree) whenever describing the designs in an AEDT project.
List of Plugins
The following plugins are used to integrate AEDT with optiSLang.
AEDT integration node and wizard: The integration node represents the AEDT integration plugin in the optiSLang Scenery pane. The node can provide the functionality for input integration, solving with different run modes, and output integration. These functions can be activated individually for a given node. You can also select in the optiSLang Solver wizard.
ACT wizard in AEDT for creating an optiSLang project: This wizard is based on a *.wbex file loaded in AEDT. The second requirement is an optiSLang installation that ACT can connect to. In the AEDT main menu, select > , then load the *.wbex file by clicking . The wizard prompts you to choose a project (or stick with the currently opened one) and then creates a basic optiSLang project for you, where you can find a system (for example, sampling or optimizer) containing a single AEDT integration node linked to your chosen project.
Note: The ACT wizard is only supported on Windows.
optiSLang Setup in AEDT under Optimetrics: The optiSLang algorithms have new setup types within the Optimetrics section of a specific model branch. These algorithm setups can be executed in AEDT. See the optiSLang Integration in Ansys Electronics Desktop help page for more information. Alternatively, you can work in the optiSLang Scenery pane and continue with graphical programming there, further extending the optiSLang project.
