ANSYS provides some new features in HFSS R17.2. Automatic Touchstone File Export is a new feature in HFSS that makes your engineering simulation life much easier and happier :-).
Dynamic Link workflow links the S-parameter solutions from EM simulators like HFSS designs to circuit simulator for linear circuit analysis. For example, in Antenna design, you can export S-parameter from HFSS design into a circuit simulation to match the antenna.
The new feature automatically exports the touchstone files to a user selected directory. You just need to set it in HFSS Design Setting:
- Launching ANSYS Electronics Desktop 2016.2 HFSS
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HFSS – Design Setting
- Export S Parameters tab
The default directory for saving the touchstone files is in same location as results directory.
- <projectname>. Aedtexport
- <Designname > folder
- <solutionname > + time stamp + date stamp folder >
- Touchstone file name = _< sweepname > + solution data base stamp
- Also included in same directory is index.csv file.
- Maps values of parameters to touchstone file names in directory.
- <Designname > folder
By Mehrnoosh Khabiri
