New 3D Modeling and Verification Tool for Mobile Antenna Design - Agilent

Agilent has released its new 3D modeling and verification tool for antenna design and placement. The new Agilent ’s Antenna Modeling Design System (AMDS) is able to simulate the entire wireless appliance and its environment. AMDS assures compliance with regulatory and operator demands such as specific absorption rate (SAR) and over-the-air performance. AMDS contains intelligent CAD import capabilities, along with the traditional drawing interface, that make it easier and faster to perform 3D EM simulations than with traditional simulators.

Agilent AMDS Antenna Modeling Design Flow

The Antenna Modeling Design System Feature Highlights

• Time-domain analysis provides results for a wide band of multiple frequency points in a single computation.
• Data available in frequency and time domain to better optimize launches and transitions.
• Impedance, antenna patterns, system and radiation efficiency, Standing Wave Ratio (SWR), S-parameters, Specific Absorption Rate (SAR), radar cross section, antenna gain, coupling, and diversity for EM analysis of complete systems.

The Antenna Modeling Design System is engineered specifically to:

• guarantees antenna placement performance by taking the entire physical wireless appliance into account
• improves end-user product performance by introducing real-world interaction with the human body directly into the EM simulation
• facilitates cross-functional teamwork between antenna and product designers through seamless and efficient exchange of CAD data, eliminating modeling rework for subsequent design iterations

Erwin De Baetselier, Agilent, said:

To improve efficiency, the wireless appliance industry is increasingly using outsourced and modular design…

…However, the transceiver/antenna physical test phase remains a critical bottleneck for time-to-market. With its ability to import, mesh and simulate the entire wireless appliance, AMDS overcomes the challenge of meeting operator and regulatory demands and end-user expectations in terms of reception, voice quality and battery life. It is the only software technology available today that addresses the needs of rapidly evolving wireless appliance design.

The new Agilent ’s Antenna Modeling Design System also has capability to analyses antenna diversity for multiple-in-multiple-out (MIMO).

Price of Agilent ’s Antenna Modeling Design System is starting at approximately $50,000.

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