Coventor upgrades MEMS design software
The software can be used to design accelerometers, gyroscopes, microphones, and micro-actuators and the changes introduced this year are intended to reduce development time.
It includes improvements in the tool’s electrostatics and coupled electromechanics solvers that provide speed-ups of up to a factor of 10 over previous versions of the software. The latest release also includes improvements to the harmonic analysis capability specifically for piezomechanical resonators.
The software comes with a reworked user interface that unifies the setup of coupled electromechanical analyses and reduces opportunities for user error, Coventor claims.
A scripting interface for transforming the input mesh and scaling material properties can eliminate time-consuming repetitive tasks by enabling users to automate parametric studies of design dimensions and sensitivity to manufacturing variations.
The CoventorWare 2014 platform is now shipping and is available for Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 and 6 64-bit.
"Now designers can more accurately model more aspects of the design with fewer assumptions," said Steve Breit, vice president of engineering at Coventor, in a statement. "Engineers have an insatiable appetite for more speed, accuracy and automation in the design process, and those are the three key areas we have significantly improved with this latest release."
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