IntelliSense ships a major upgrade to IntelliSuite

BOSTON, June 28th, 2005. IntelliSense announces the immediate availability of a major upgrade to its popular IntelliSuite™ family of MEMS and Nano simulation tools. IntelliSuite v8.1 (2006) includes several industry first capabilities.

"The v8 series of IntelliSuite has been a significant growth engine for IntelliSense, enabling us to grow over 100% year over year. We hope to maintain the industry momentum garnered by v8 with the latest release. We couldn't be more pleased with how the latest upgrade turned out. While v8 introduced a new architecture for MEMS modeling, v8.1 builds upon that with several new enhancements. It is a must have upgrade." said Sandeep Akkaraju, CEO of IntelliSense

IntelliSuite is a Living Design Environment™ that allows program managers, system architects and electrical engineers, device and package designers, process engineers and operators, and test and manufacturing engineers to efficiently work together to create first-time-right, manufacturable MEMS designs.

Feature highlights

Some of the feature highlights of the latest version include:

Enhanced meshing
Automatic meshing of complex MEMS structures includes two new smart mesh engines -- users can now choose between automatic manhattan and Non-manhattan mesh engines. The mesh engines automatically generate full hexahedral meshes from real world mask sets. Smart meshing can optimize the mesh size for real world manhattan and non-manhattan geometries. In addition a new grid mesh is available for automatic creation of electromagnetic meshes.

Coupled RF MEMS simulation
IntelliSuite ships with a new full 3D FEM based Electromagnetics engine optimized for RF MEMS simulation. The Electromagnetics engine is coupled with ThermoElectroMechnaical (TEM) analysis capabilities. Electro-mechanically deformed structures can be seamlessly simulated for the first time within a single software.

ThermoElectroMechanical Analysis
The TEM module ships with several new features: simulation of switch contact bounce, contact analysis with joule heating and piezo-effects, improved performance for the Impedance analysis of BAW and piezoelectric resonators. Other major features include temperature dependent, orthrotropic and highly nonlinear material properties, incorporation of nonlinear strain gradients, electrothermal sub-modeling, enhanced modeling of CMOS MEMS devices, ability to model Rejustor™ type piezo-resistive devices.

Microfluidic simulation
Support for Electrohydrodynamic pumping, high frequency dielectrophoresis phenomenon, flow through porous media has been included.

System Model Extraction
IntelliSense proprietary System Model Extraction (SME) has been extended to derive Full Lagrangian N-DOF (arbitrary degree of freedom) to electromechanical contact based problems. Accurate transient, modal and harmonic responses of the MEMS can now be derived in a matter of seconds rather than multi-hour FEA runs.

EDA Linker™
IntelliSense introduces a new tool called EDALinker. EDALinker exports IntelliSuite's FEA based N-DOF electromechanical system models to a variety of industry formats including VHDL, Mentor ModelSim, Cadence PSPICE, Simetrix SPICE, HSPICE, and Mathworks MEX. Users can now perform system analysis of the MEMS device in their favorite system simulator without resorting to grossly simplified mass, spring, damper based models.

SYNPLE™
IntelliSense's multi-domain system simulator has been extended to incorporate process related effects such as residual stresses, strain gradients, sidewall angles and thermal effects. New Auto time-stepping algorithms significantly improve the convergence of complex systems.
Synple also includes several popular MEMS circuits ranging from high order sigma-delta circuits, digital phase lock circuits and high precision capacitive readout and linearization circuits.
New capability now includes the ability to define Design of Experiments. Synple can now automatically generate Latin Hyperspace (LHS), Hi-Med-Lo, Monte Carlo and partial factorial experiments for System Optimization.

Total MEMS Solutions™
IntelliSense ignited the MEMS industry in the early 1990s with its IntelliSuite® family of innovative CAD tools -- and is now the leading innovator and supplier of design and development solutions for the MEMS professional. With users in more than 25 countries, IntelliSense offers software tools, custom design, and supply chain management taking customers from concept to market.
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Contact:
IntelliSense
David Harris, 781-933-8098
Vice President of Sales and Marketing