ANSYS HFSS R18

Desmond Tan
ANSYS

&
MPI

ADK



3D

SBRHFSS
& SBR+
HFSS-Savant
RF HFSS-EMIT

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HFSS
R18
ANSYS Electronics Desktop ANSYS

Savant:
Size
Electrical

HFSS-IE & FEBI

HFSS:

Geometry and Material Complexity

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HFSS

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SBR Solver:
SBR ?
SBR = Shooting and Bouncing Rays

HFSS

(GO) (PO)

Scattered fields

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 SBR Solver:
ANSYS SBR+
SBR
(PTD)
(UTD)
Creeping Wave
SBR

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HFSS R18.0 SBR Region

HFSS/FEM

SBR Region

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 Savant R18
NN :

GPU

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R18 FEBI, IE, SBR

Impact of bidirectional
coupling

Two-Way 704,273 58.4 GB 127 min

One-Way 704,273 58.0 GB 54 min >2X

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IE RegionsHFSS-IE
IE regionsHFSS-IE

, ,

HFSS-IE R19
IEHFSS

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Antenna Design Toolkit

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12
3D

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 Antenna Design Kit :
18: GPS
Uda2x2
MxNTGregorian

/: ,

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 EMIT 18.0
GPU
Nexxim-EMIT
GPU Tesla KSeries, Quadro KSeries,
EMIT Tx Nexxim Quadro MSeries, GeForce GTX Series.

Nexxim-EMIT
RF/ PSDP
EMIT
1 CPU Core, /GPU
()
No GPU GPU Speedup*
Project #1 233.3 16.7 14
Project #2 41.7 3.3 13
Project #3 15.5 6.8 2
Nexxim Project #4 41.7 2.8 15

EMIT Project #5 18.3 1.1 17

* Some models benefit more from multi-cores than GPU (and vice versa).
actual speedup depends heavily on the model configuration. Some models
may not benefit significantly from HPC. Cases shown here are intended to
show potential speedups for certain model types.

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 EMIT 18.0 ,
Fixed
NTIA(RSEC); CW, FM-CW, FM-
pulse, .

Tx emission mask compliant

with NTIA RSEC

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Layout MCAD
: 16 cores
:
R18Phi25%
Layout47%
MCAD13%

HFSS 3D Layout HFSS MCAD

R17.2 Phi R17.2 Classic R18 Phi R18 Classic R17.2 R18
Time 40s 30m, 55s 30s 16m, 24s 15m, 35s 13m, 34s
RAM 433MB 825MB 435MB 618MB 1.2GB 1.2GB

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:
: 16 cores
: FEBI

R18R17.235%

R1816R17.246%

R17.2, 1 core R18, 1 core R18, 16 cores

Initial Mesh Time 19m, 2s 21m, 34s 16m, 53s
Mesh Seed Time 5h, 32m 3h, 16m 2h, 51m
Total Mesh Time 6h, 27m 4h, 11m 3h, 30m

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BAM

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Adaptive Meshing: HFSS

Automatic Adaptive Meshing

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Solution Frequency

Frequency Sweep


Dependent
mesh solves

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?
Solution Frequency

? ? ? ?

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 Broadband Adaptive Meshing

Solve Fields at
Frequency #1

Solve Fields at
Frequency #2

Solve Fields at
Frequency #N

pre-seed

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S21 S31

Example: 1950MHz



1910MHz

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1950MHz

1910MHz

HPC

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 BAM

@1950 MHz

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 BAM
Broadband
HFSS

Multi-Frequencies:

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BAM:

HFSS


HPC:

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 S-Parameter Only Matrix Solve
S

S


10-20%

HPC

Saved Fields and

S-Parameters

Saved Only
S-Parameters

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S-Parameter Only :

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 S-Parameter Only

Problem S-Parameter and Fields S-Parameter

# Only
1 13.5 GB 3.41 GB
4X
2 39.4 GB 9.71 GB
6X
3 188 GB 30.8 GB 256GB RAM
8

2x

1 2 3

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 Matrix Assembly

Example: 64 (8X8)
01:15 vs. 00:43 = 74%

R18

R17

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Matrix Assembly

(min)
200
180 HFSS17
HFSS18 (1-core)
160 HFSS18 (2-core)
140 HFSS18 (4-core)
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Test 4

MPI

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 : 2017 vs. 2016

Example: Package on PCB

DC to 20GHz

: 14-Core Intel Xeon CPU E5-2683

v3@ 2.00GHz, 2 CPUs/node.

: Node, 56 Core, Auto HPC

2016 2017

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 : 2017 vs. 2016

R17 h:m:s R18 h:m:s Speed

Adapt 2:24:37 Mesh 1:49:34 32% Faster
Sweep 8:33:55 Sweep 3:59:46 114% Faster
Total 10:58:32 Total 5:49:20 89% Faster

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DC to 20 GHz
56 cores, 28

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17 h:m:s 18BAM h:m:s Speed
Adapt 1:49:34
2:24:37 Mesh 2:29:41 27%Slower
3% Slower
Sweep 3:59:46
8:33:55 Sweep 2:23:29 67% Faster
258% Faster
Total 5:49:20
10:58:32 Total 4:53:10 19% Faster
124% Faster

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 HFSS Transient

HPC
PMLs shell element

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MPI/OMP 126 excitations
#RHS >>
R17 #tasks

SMP1.2 - 9.6x

1 Task 18 Cores SMP R17 13:36:21 11.6 GB -
1 Task 18 Cores SMP R18 01:25:04 22 GB 9.6x
21 Tasks 126 Cores DSO R17 00:51:26 180 GB -
21 Tasks 126 Cores MPI+OMP 00:18:24 170 GB 2.8x
27 Tasks 162 Cores DSO 01:44:14 156 GB R18
R17
27 Tasks 162 Cores MPI 01:44:54 135 GB
R18
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 HFSS

F16 ()
PML
PML

Shell elements

shell

( vs )

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, 3D,
UDMs

:
, /

CAD
CAD
CAD ProE, SolidWorks,
CATIA, UG-NX, STEP, Auto-CAD Inventor

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 3D

3D

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 3D:
3D

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Polygon Fit

Primitive Fit

Bounding Box

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HFSS 3D Layout

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HFSS 3D Layout: Connector-on-Board ()

ECAD (PCB, ) MCAD ()

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 HFSS 3D Layout
ECAD & MCAD

HFSS or SIwave
TX/RX
LNA
IBIS & IBIS-AMI
QuickEye, VerifEye
HSPICE*
PSPICE**

*Requires Synopsys license;

Nexxim supports HSPICE syntax

** Uses Nexxim solver with

PSPICE syntax

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HPC

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 HPC :

HPC

HPC

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 HPC

ANSYS RSM

R18MPI
Starting mesh Adaptive Frequency sweep

Windows HPC

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DX
DOE

EKM

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 EBU

F1

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 R18.0
PDF

F1

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