Overview of XFdtd's Schematic Editor and Optimization for Matching Network Design

Now fully featured to encompass the entire matching network workflow.

This webinar demonstrates the full range of features available to users, with a focus on recent updates that include optimization of component values, impedance and aperture tuners with tune codes, and system efficiency results. 

Video Chapters

• Introduction - 0:00
• Overview - 1:34
• Fixed-Band Match - 6:15
• Diplex Match - 19:54
• Multiple Physical Configurations - 33:16
• Array and Corporate Feed Network - 36:51
• Impedance and Aperture Tuner - 40:22
• Summary - 48:31
• Questions - 49:56
• Contact Information - 56:56

XFdtd 3D EM Simulation Software includes a schematic editor for analyzing matching networks, corporate feed networks, and beamforming.  It integrates a frequency-domain circuit solver with full-wave results.  As modern wireless products require more components, shrinking the available real estate for a device’s antennas and complicating design, engineers face challenges that the schematic editor eases.  

Key Takeaways:

• Optimization determines the ideal component values to meet design goals
• Availability of tune codes for impedance and aperture tuner applications
• System efficiency as a result metric
• Matching network parasitics
• Diplex matched antennas
• Beamforming
• Operating modes for simulating multi-state devices
• Slide bars for manual tuning
• SAR post-processing