Q3D Extractor® is the premier 3-D and 2-D parasitic extraction software tool for engineers designing PCB's, electronic packaging and power electronic equipment. Q3D Extractor uses Method of Moments (integral equations) and Finite Element Methods to compute capacitive, conductance, inductance, and resistance matrices. It uses the fast multipole method (FMM) to accelerate the solution of the integral equations. Outputs from the solver include current and voltage distributions, CG, and RL matrices.

Q3D Extractor efficiently performs the 3-D and 2-D electromagnetic field simulation required for the extraction of resistance, conductance, partial inductance, and capacitance RLCG parameters from a design and automatically generates a netlist in many formats including SML (Simplorer® format) and SPICE. Q3D Extractor is capable of generating S-Parameters exported using the Touchstone® format which represent the n-port network parameter data of a device or passive interconnect network. Such frequency dependency can be included in simulations through dynamic links with Ansoft Designer® and Simplorer products.

New in Q3D Extractor 9.0

• New TAU meshing technology
• Remote Simulation Manager for efficient management of compute clusters
• Graphical Matrix Reduction
• Lossless capacitance solver
• Reassignment of mesh operations
• Automated links to ANSYS® Workbench™
• Thermal and mechanical stress analysis with ANSYS® Mechanical™
• Statistical analysis with ANSYS® DesignXplorer™ software