CST Studio Suite 2020 Is Now Available!

If you’re a current CST Studio Suite customer, you can now grab the new 2020 release at software.3ds.com (remember to install the “Golden” base level before any “SP’s”)!

CST Studio Suite is updated for 2020, and it now includes access to the powerful low-frequency solvers of Opera, an excellent choice for motor design among other things!  Visit our CST Studio Suite page to learn more about CST or contact us for a demo.  You can also try the free Student Edition!

Here are some of the highlights of this release:

General Features

General

• LINUX support for all interactive workflows
• New project preview mode, which includes archiving of projects
• Added filtering option to the navigation tree
• New search option to find commands, information and examples
• New Python module for general project management
• Enhanced general and cylindrical bend feature
• System Simulator: Import of Functional Mockup Units for ModelExchange according to FMI standard
• HPC: MPI job scheduler native shell support
• HPC: Improved GPU support: Added selected AMD GPUs (T), NVIDIARTX series and NVIDIA NVLink

System Assembly and Modeling (SAM)

• Extended modification options of existing simulation projects
• Improved support of lumped elements for 3D simulation projects
• One-click conversion of 3D projects to assembly projects

Meshing

• Mesh Import: Recovery tool for intersecting triangles
• NVH Mesh Import with connections for surface mesh (I)
• Improved robustness of mesh moving for optimizations and sweeps

Post-Processing

• New Python module ‘cst.results’ to access 0D/1D results from file
• New easy to use ‘Result2D’ VBA object
• Improved ray histogram post-processing
• Interactive plot measurement mode for Cartesian 1D plot
• Interactive farfield plots in orthographic projection
• Faster farfield combination that avoids nearfield data processing (T, F)
• New Report tool to collect screenshots and create report documents
• Enhanced 2D colormap plot supports contour lines, banding and auto tick
• Customizable plot units in 2D/3D plots

3D EM Technology

• High Frequency Simulation
• Added circularly distributed discrete face ports (F)
• Encryption of CST models for securely sharing data (IP protection): FD and TLM solver added
• New Partial RLC solver for calculation of circuit parameters (partial resistances, inductances, and capacitances) with optional SPICE export
• Allow surface impedance material at waveguide ports (T)
• Performance improvements for open boundary simulations (T)
• Added multi-pin lumped element SPICE and Touchstone circuits (T, TLM)
• Added connectivity tree and mesh feedback for discretization and intersection problems (TLM)
• Improved handling of composite skins on aircraft frames (TLM)
• Combine results for fast reduced order model frequency domain solver with tetrahedral mesh (F)
• Modal weighting coefficients available after Characteristic Mode Analysis (I, M)
• Performance enhancement for monostatic RCS sweep (I)
• General performance improvements and support for larger simulation setups for MLFMM (I)
• Field of view analysis (A)
• Improved accuracy for near- and farfield source excitations (A)
• Hybrid solver task (SAM task)
  • Support simultaneous excitations defined in local domains
  • Reference impedance for S-parameters and Touchstone export added
  • Support all ports excitation selection

Antenna Magus

• Multiple elements per array
• Element pattern from collection
• Calculate NFS for default designs and for previously estimated designs while NFS setting was disabled
• Value comparison in compare window
• Exclude selected variables from macro export

Low Frequency Simulation

• Performance improvement for time domain solvers (LT)
• Authoring of CAD coil segments from CAD geometries (LT, JS, LF FD (broadband only))
• 3D translational motion (LT)
• Introduction of Machine Simulation Sequence for multiple drive scenario simulation in SAM
• Authoring of Reduced Order Models as Functional Mockup Units according to FMI standard (LF FD and SAM Machine Simulation Sequence)
• Induction Machine drive scenario (SAM Machine Simulation Sequence)
• Performance improvements for evaluating machine drive scenarios (SAM Machine Simulation Sequence)
• Using iron loss data sheets for calculating iron losses (Frontend)
• Temperature dependent permanent magnet recoil model (LT)

Particle Simulation

• Particle volume source for modeling initial plasma distributions
• Ion-induced secondary electron emission
• Added support for periodic boundaries in the E-Static PIC solver
• Time dependent field excitation for E-Static PIC solver

SPARK3D

• In Corona configuration, pressure sweep points may be distributed in a linear or logarithmic scale
• Added new Corona simulation type: at a fixed power, a pressure sweep may be analyzed in order to know if there is breakdown or not

FEST3D

• Expose independent parameters to CST Design Studio
• Added coaxial/dielectric-loaded cavity libraries based on CST Frequency Domain Solver. Rectangular and cylindrical cavities are allowed
• Visualize the mesh used by 3D subcomponents based on BI-RME3D and CST Frequency Domain Solver
• Use FEST3D projects as blocks in CST Design Studio

Cable | Circuit | Macromodels | PCB | Chip

Cable Simulation

• Support for CST Cable Studio projects in simulation projects
• Improvements of connection to 3D manager
• Improvements of automatic bundling and twisted cable simulation
• Increase of simulation accuracy concerning loss and screen modeling, incl. Spice export
• Improvements of the user interface: e.g. interactive cross-section editing

Circuit Simulation

• All task properties are available through task parameter list and many other schematic editor improvements
• New parameterized array block to define multiple, identical sub circuits
• New FEST3D project block
• IBIS-AMI task: Support of transient AMI simulation
• Encryption/decryption for SPICE circuit files
• Interface to LTSPICE simulator

IdEM

• Full support for macromodeling of Mixed-Mode parameters
• New functionality for performing sensitivity analyses on a dataset
• Enhancement of the passivity solver through a more efficient characterization of the passivity violations
• Major improvement in the convergence of the passivity enforcement solver through a more robust optimizer
• Performance improvements for terminate ports functionality

Filter Design

• Automatic 3D filter design and model creation

EDA Import and PCB Simulation

• Support for bending and multiple-stackup information in Cadence-Allegro import
• Automatic import of heat sources from PCBS IR-drop results into CST MPhysics Studio
• Improved performance of opening PCB designs in 3D
• New package component model (EBD)
• New impedance calculator for pre-layout analysis
• Improvements in IR-Drop simulation: Consider filled vias
• Increase of simulation accuracy for SI/2DTL, e.g. Ohmic loss modeling and legacy via model, incl. SPICE export
• Improvements of the user interface: e.g. view attributes manager and color mode for 2D/3D results

Boardcheck

• Classify rules by analysis types (EMC, SI, PI)
• New rule ‘Power Net Overlapping’
• Improved rules that are checking cross-talk

Chip Interface

• Automatic port creation at pin locations
• Project history display and editing
• Retain pin/net information when exporting through Cadence Virtuoso plugin
• Single-file setup for GDS-based workflow triggered from Cadence Virtuoso plugin

Multi-Physics Simulations

Thermal Simulation

• CHT Solver
  • New CFD mesh type enabling the use of non-uniform background meshes and the optimal positioning of meshing gridlines at solid interfaces
  • Improved reporting of setup errors including self-intersecting surfaces
  • Faster and more accurate import of surface losses from EM simulations
  • Support for surface emissivity and contact properties in the two-resistor thermal compact model
• Two-resistor thermal compact model creation macro for classic thermal solvers (THt, THs)
• Updated heat transfer coefficient calculation macro to compute surface temperature for given power dissipation (THt, THs)