ANSYS Electronics Suite 2024 R1 - SSQ Release

Electronics Desktop
- New view navigation controls
- Open MPI support extended to all relevant products in AEDT
- CPython connection to AEDT through gRPC
- Shared web licensing support for Pro, Premium, and Enterprise
- Animation export to Ensight format
- Improved display precision for near-zero floating point values
- Dark and light themes (Beta, Windows only)
- Ansys Cloud Gateway job management from AEDT (Beta)
- Web client for batch solve monitoring and reporting (Beta)
3D Modeler
- Copy-paste of designs with encrypted components
- Discovery 3D Modeler live connection
- Granta material attribute import from CAD files
- Improvements to subregions
- Lightweight geometry import through Discovery
- Integrated Hoops translators (Beta)
HFSS
- Array metadata export
- Array mask automation through CSV import
- SBR+ Antenna blockage with dielectric objects and VRT
- SBR+ PTD/UTD wedge editing improvement
- Memory usage improvement for Distributed Matrix Assembly
- Automatic prediction of the upper multipaction power threshold
- Distributed Sparse Direct Solver: Partial solve without grouping port unknowns
- Layout Component in 3D enhancements (Beta)
- Flex PCB support for Layout component in 3D (Beta)
- Q3D DCR in HFSS 3D (Beta)
- Composite subgroup in network analysis (Beta)
HFSS 3D Layout
- Multizone support for Layout components
- Usability and performance enhancements
- Rigid Flex workflow enhancements
- IC mode enhancements
- Encrypted technology support in IC mode
- SIwave Near Field simulation in 3D Layout (Beta)
- Extensions to EDB CPython API (Beta)
- Q3D in 3D Layout IC mode (Beta)
- RaptorX in 3D Layout IC mode (Beta)
Icepak
- AEDT Icepak import into Workbench
- PCB workflow enhancements
- Cylindrical orthotropic properties
- Post-processing and reporting enhancements
- Slider bar meshing enhancements
- Enhanced expression support
- Solar loading per object
- Official release of improved mesh regions
- ECXML import/export speed enhancements
- Thermal Mesh Fusion (Beta)
- GPU Computing for Solver (Beta)
Maxwell
- Litz twisting effects on DC resistance
- Magnetostriction enhancements
- NVH workflow for inverter-fed electric motors
- Nonlinear resistive sheet for 3D magnetostatic solution
- Shell element for modeling thin conductors
- Support value boundary for magnetostatic DDM solution
- Magnetostriction enhancements to initial stress
- Improve core loss calculations with Hysteresis Core Loss Model
- Enhancements to Maxwell Machine Toolkit with Motor-CAD post processing
- Support for Voltage in Maxwell-Fluent co-simulation for Electric Arc application
- Python API for custom core loss definition
- 2D Motor symmetry meshing enhancements
- Support loss adaptive refinement for eddy current solution (Beta)
- Layout Component in 3D Enhancements (Beta)
- Flex PCB Support for Layout Component in 3D (Beta)
- Expression cache calculations with light weight post processor (Beta)
AEDT Mechanical
- Official release of Transient Thermal
- Enabled AEDT Mechanical import into Workbench
- Layout component with trace mapping in Thermal and Structural (Beta)
- Enhanced Layout component gridcut slider & visualization (Beta)
Q3D Extractor
- Commercial release of distributed memory solver for CG
- Commercial release of transition region solver
- Enhanced multi-face uniform current terminals in DC-R
- MLFMM for improved AC-RL solver performance

Circuit

General Enhancements:
- Custom terminations
- New TDR analysis options
- Support for EMI receiver CISPR25
- Semiconductor characterization tool
- Transient diagnostic tools
- Motor model(s) for power electronics
- Add terminal names for RLGC PSpice sub-circuit
- Enhanced DDR5 support in Nexxim: AMI support for clock-forwarded architectures
- Print all top-level node voltages checkbox on transient/dc analysis menu
- New MIPI C-PHY transmitter component (Beta)
SPISim Enhancements:
- Add optimization mechanism and associated GUI settings to CTLE AMI models
- Enable RX_CLOCK of IBIS 7.1 for DDR5
- Add back-channel interface (BCI) for future TX/RX co-optimization
- Batch mode support for IBIS modeling flow and other usage improvements
FilterSolutions
- Balanced filter export to AEDT
EMIT
- Optimal N-to-1 feature and improvements
- Maintain and access multiple channel-level results
- Enable/disable radios and emitters
- Improved STK-EMIT integration/automation
- MIPI C-PHY Toolkit
Twin Builder
- PSPICE performance improvements
- Battery Wizard enhancements
- HPPC fitting error display in Battery Wizard
- Export State Space Model to Modelica Package
- Using conservative pins to connect thermal LTI-ROMs
- Parametric field history in Static ROM Builder
- LS-OPT/LS-DYNA ROM extraction and export
- Optimization algorithms for parameter calibration
- Improved useability for fusion workflow
- TD Composer workflow improvements
- PyTwin: Enhance 3D data handling with TBROM
Granta
- 44 new Materials Data for Simulation (MDS) records:
- 10 magnet materials
- 1 solder resist material
- 16 polymer grades
- 17 PCB laminates
- Updated record names for Panasonic Megtron 7 and Ventec tec-speed 6.0

Electronics Desktop
- 837334 – Delta marker functionality in Eye plots.
- 872310 – AEDT now opens correctly when a polar report with data markers is opened.
- 875305 – NDE plot now shows correct data marker values when marker is edited.
Circuit
- 457738 – Sensi setup with optiSLang inside gives correct results.
- 834498 – Capacitor substrate definition no longer crashes circuit UI.
- 865255 – Resolved AEDT crash issue with SIwave dynamic linked component.
EMIT
- 776007 – The scenario matrix and scenario details views are responsive for multi-interferer analysis of many systems.
HFSS
- 829801 – Field recovery no longer slow for spatial material with tabulated.
- 843057 – FilterSolutions port tuning now works correctly for all length unit settings.
HFSS 3D Layout
- 827914 – Pin group port handling improvements during SIwave HFSS Region simulations initiated from HFSS 3D Layout.
Icepak
- 604530 – Optimetrics no longer stops randomly for Transient designs with extremely small end times.
- 770416 – Optimetrics with Icepak-DCIR coupling with varying current values in Layout works as expected.
- 840026 – Varying ambient temperature specification works as expected.
Maxwell
- 837242 – Resolved Maxwell Transformer current sharing issues (ROM for Simplorer).
Mechanical
- 841688 – AEDT Mechanical solver now works as expected on AMD-based PCs.
Twin Builder
- 851034 – Successfully import PSpice models using TABLE references if the dynamic table data can be evaluated as constant

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