Sonnet Tutorial

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:Microwave Component

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Introduction

Em performs an electromagnetic analysis of a microstrip, stripline, coplanar

waveguide, or any other 3-D planar circuit by solving for the current distribution on
the circuit metalization using the Method of Moments.

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Getting Stared-Microstrip Band Stop Filter

Alumina substrate: r=9.8, thickness=20 mil;

guided quarter-wavelength @ 5.5GHz 206 mil
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Getting Stared-setting in Sonnet

Circuits to simulate are enclosed with a hermetic metal housing.

Optional: lid may be removed for antenna simulation
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Getting Started
Choosing units
Setting up box parameters
Determining cell sizes
Setting up dielectric layers

Adding metal rectangles to a circuit

Adding metal polygons to a circuit
Copying, flipping and moving polygons in a circuit
Performing a simple analysis
Plotting response data
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Getting Started-Choosing units

Parameters Units

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Getting Started -Setting up box parameters

Parameters Box
Lossless
WG load
Free space

Saving time when simulating

symmetry structure

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Getting Started -Setting up dielectric layers

Parameters Dielectric Layers

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Getting Started -Adding metal rectangles and polygons to a circuit

Add port

Add via

Add a polygon

Add a rectangle
Metal/Brick mode

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Getting Started-Adding ports

Shift+Add port add port mode
Press Esc to exit add port mode

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Getting Started-Performing a simple analysis

Save then press Em

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Getting Started-Performing a simple analysis

Simple sweep-For instance if the Frequency Units were set to GHz, then the values of 2,
10, 2 would start an analysis at 2 GHz and end at 10 GHz with steps of 2 GHz (e.g. 2, 4,
6, 8 and 10 GHz).
Complex sweep-Complex sweeps are used to run an analysis using multiple sets of
frequencies in sorted or unsorted order.
Analysis file(.an)-There may be times where you will wish to analyze multiple circuits
at the same set of frequencies. Rather than specifying frequency control information on
an individual basis, you set the up the information once in an analysis control file.
Verbose-Causes em to display messages in the output window during program
execution describing the current state of the analysis.
De-embed -The circuit is automatically de-embedded to the specified reference planes,
or the box edge if no reference planes are specified in the geometry file.
Memory save- The system matrix is filled in single precision which reduces memory
requirements for storing the matrix to one half of that of double precision. If this option
is not used, the matrix is stored in double precision.
Make emvu file-Outputs current density information for the entire circuit which can be
viewed using emvu.
Multi-frequency caching -MFC is a technique that can dramatically reduce the em
computation time when analyzing large circuits over many frequencies without any loss
in accuracy.
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Getting Started-View response

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Special issue on port setting

Standard Box-Wall Ports

Via Ports

Standard Ungrounded-Internal Ports

Automatic-Grounded Ports
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Special issue on via hole setting

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Special issue on air bridge setting

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