CST – Computer Simulation Technology

Calling all users of CST STUDIO products!

We are very interested in your work with CST MICROWAVE STUDIO®, CST DESIGN STUDIO™ & CST EM STUDIO™. If you would like to contribute to the 3rd annual North American User Group Meeting, to share your experiences or to discuss your questions in a forum of other users and experts, please submit a text abstract between 100 and 200 words to: events@us.cst.com. 20 minutes will be allocated to each presentation with 5 minutes allowed for questions.

Contributions deadline: February, 28 2005

Alternatively, please send your workshop inquiries and abstract submissions to:

CST of America, Inc.
10 Laurel Ave, Suite 300
Wellesley, MA, 02481

Tel:  781-416-2782
Fax: 781-416-4001

On October 25th, 2004, Thomas Weiland, founder of CST, was made an honorary professor of Tongji University, Shanghai.  This position was conferred in connection with a new Masters course in computational engineering, to be offered from 2005.

Born in 1951, Thomas Weiland studied electrical engineering and mathematics at the Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt, and gained his PhD in 1977. As fellow at the European Institute for Nuclear Research (CERN, Switzerland) he began the first studies on EM simulation of relativistic particles in the time domain. In 1983, at the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, he set up an international collaboration in order to develop the software package MAFIA for 3D EM and charged particle simulation. In 1986 he received the Physics Prize from the German Physical Society for his contributions to the field of scientific computing, and the US Particle Accelerator School’s Prize for Achievements in Accelerator Physics and Technology. In 1987 he received the Leibniz Prize from the German Research Association. Since 1989 he has been a full professor at the Darmstadt University of Technology, as well as head of the Computational Electromagnetics Laboratory. In 1992 he founded CST GmbH, which is recognised as the market leader in 3D EM Time Domain technology, and was elected a member of the Academy of Science and Literature, Mainz. In 1995 he won the Max Planck-Research Prize for International Collaboration and in 1997 was awarded the Philip Morris Research Prize.

CST of America is pleased to announce its 3rd annual user group meeting and call for papers. The event is scheduled for April 21st and 22nd and will be held at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Monterey, California.

The event is designed to showcase the very latest developments in CST STUDIO software and to encourage feedback and user participation. Presentations are invited from customers who may wish to present their latest work using STUDIO tools to a wider audience of design engineers.

 

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CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® v5.1 is now available for download. This new release contains major new features, in particular the FD solver on tetrahedral grids, the new MOR solver, and 64bit computing for the Transient solver. For CST DESIGN STUDIO™ v3.1 the new powerful cache concept for any 3D simulation should be emphasised here. Results of simulations are stored in a library path, which can be shared between different users or even be transferred to other places. The most significant change  in CST EM STUDIO™ v2.1 is the implementation of an electrostatic solver on tetrahedral meshes. Customers are invited to download these upgrades from the support area.

 

October 12th 2004, CST announces new 3D em solver module at EuMW 2004. CST MWS' new Model Order Reduction (MOR) solver is particularly effective for the simulation of higly resonant structures such as filters. This new module complements the existing Transient, Frequency Domain (on Cartesian and tetrahedral grids), and Eigenmode solvers already available in CST MWS.

 

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October 12th 2004, CST announces new global caching scheme in CST DESIGN STUDIO™ at EuMW 2004, booth #H52.

This powerful new innovation is implemented in version 3.1 of CST DESIGN STUDIO™ (CST DS). It minimises the number of numerically expensive simulation runs for repeatedly used components. The global Cache stores and administers, for example, the results of CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® simulations for varying parameter sets. CST DS can speed up optimisation by interpolation between existing parameter sets. It automatically extends the global cache by launching new simulations whenever needed. A unique identifier allows the sharing of caches and thus 3D EM simulation results inside and between workgroups.

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October 12th 2004, CST- Computer Simulation Technology announces the completion of phase one of the integration of CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® with Agilent ADS at EuMW 2004, booth #H52.

In addition to the existing option of importing planar layouts into CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® (CST MWS), users can now easily create ADS DAC components. This enables parametric access to S-Parameters of  pre-computed 3D em simulations through the ADS schematic and makes use of the advanced interpolation schemes.

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CST confirms registrations for European User Group Meeting have reached maximum capacity.

Over 90 people have registered to attend CST’s European User Group Meeting, 23-24 September 2004. Talks and posters on applications as varied as antennas, photonics, medical and emc will be presented by CST’s customers, and in-house simulation experts will concentrate on sharing the latest innovations in the CST STUDIO product line. The featured keynote speaker is Dr. Peter Thoma, head of research and development and managing director of CST.

CST- Computer Simulation Technology announces appointment of Midwin and Olifson as product representatives in southern California.

  

"Midwin and Olifson is the premier RF and Microwave representative in Southern California with over 25 years in the industry and an excellent reputation. We are delighted to have them on board and look forward to increased exposure and sales in this key area for the wireless and defense industries"
Jonathan Oakley, CST of America, VP Sales & Support.

CST has been invited to participate in High speed interconnect modeling Seminars.

CST is participating in a series of seminars the week of the 13th September. In collaboration with TDA Systems and Picosecond Labs, the seminars will look at both software "virtual prototyping" of high speed systems and hardware based measurement techniques. Attendees will learn more about modeling, compliance testing, signal integrity analysis and fault isolation of gigabit interconnects. Impedance, S-parameters, eye diagram measurements and modeling, as well as distributed and behavioral modeling using TDR/T and S-Parameter measurement data will be covered. Full-wave field solver pre-layout analysis and prototyping will be discussed.

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23-24 September 2004

Darmstadt, Germany

We are interested in your work with our products CST MICROWAVE STUDIO®, CST DESIGN STUDIO™ & CST EM STUDIO™. If you would like to contribute to the 1st European User Group Meeting, to share your experiences, to discuss your questions in a forum of other users and experts, please read the attached Call for Contributions and contact CST.

 

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at the MTT-S IMS 2004 in Fort Worth, Texas the lucky winner of a one year lease of CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® was drawn. CST's congratulations go to William F. Graves, Jr, TRAK Microwave Corp. We will get in touch with you soon.

Agilent Technologies, CST Announce Exclusive Alliance to Bring 3D EM Simulation Technology to the Mainstream

 

Integrated Capabilities to Simplify Design Flow, Speed Characterization of

Wireless, Wireline Designs

 

 

PALO ALTO, Calif., and DARMSTADT, Germany, June 7, 2004 -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Computer Simulation Technology (CST) today announced an exclusive alliance to bring three-dimensional electromagnetic (EM) technology to a wider range of RF & microwave design engineers. The alliance will expand the integration of Agilent Advanced Design System (ADS) electronic design automation (EDA) software and CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® (CST MWS) software. Integrated 3D EM capabilities help simplify the design flow as well as speed characterization and analysis of new high-frequency wireless and wireline communications designs.

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