RF Circuits Design 3

This document discusses RF circuit design and simulation software. It provides examples of CAE software for circuit analysis including Ansoft HFSS, Ansoft Designer, Altium Designer, and LTSpice. It also lists software for PCB design like Altium Designer, Eagle, and KiCAD. The document then gives tutorials for simulating circuits and designing PCBs in Altium Designer and Ansoft Designer. It includes steps for circuit simulation, PCB layout, and using a microstrip line in Ansoft Designer for impedance matching.

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RF circuits design

Grzegorz Beziuk

Examples of CAE software

References
[1] Ansys Incorporation, Ansoft High Frequency Structure Simulator - tutorials, Ansys,
(www.ansoft.com)
[2] Kraus G., Ansoft designer SV 2.0 tutorial fo begginers. Open source document, 2005,
(http://www.elektronikschule.de/~krausg/)
[3] Altium limited, Altium designer tutorial getting started with PCB design, Altium limited,
(http://wiki.altium.com/display/ADOH/Getting+Started+with+Altium+Designer)
[4] Altium limited, Denining and running simulation analises, Altium limited,
(http://wiki.altium.com/display/ADOH/Getting+Started+with+Altium+Designer)

Introduction
Circuit
parametrs

The steps of circuit

designing process

Calculations

CAD symulation,
PCB designing

Circuit
assembly
Circuit
measurments
satisfy parameters?

Circuit
optimization
no

yes

Circuit
fabrication

Introduction
Circuits symulation software:
Pspice, Orcad, Multisim (free AD), Altium Designer, Tina (free
TI), SmartSpice, Hspice, T-Spice, Spectre (RF), Eldo (RF),
UltraSim, LT Spice (free LT), NanoSim, Nspice, Hsim, B2Spice,
ICAD/4, EDSpice,WINecad, TopSpice, Spice Opus, SiMetrix,
Micro-cap
Circuits and EM simulation (RF and microwave): Microwave
Office (RF), Ansoft Designer (RF), Sonnet Lite (RF, EMC),
Agilent ADS

Introduction
PCB designing software:
Altium Designer (Easytrax, Autotrax, Protel), Eagle,Spectra i
Allegro (autorouting), CadStar, Orcad, Tina, Circuit Maker, PCad, PCB Elegance, EDWin, VisualPC, BPECS32, Expert
PCB, CirCAD, Layout, McCAD, EPD (RF, hybrid), gEDA (free
linux), ZenitPCB (free), PCB (free), KiCAD (free)
Some software contains circuit simulation module and PCB
designing modulem, for instance Altium Designer.

Altium designer circuits symulation

Create on your
PC folder ....

Altium designer circuits symulation

- add power sources VSRC, set up volatge values
required for +Ucc, -Uee
- add ports (from menu Vcc power ports) : GND, +Ucc, Uee
- add load resistance (R3)
- wiring up the circuits
- annotate parts
- compiling the project

Altium designer circuits symulation

Altium designer PCB designing

- add to existing project PCB
- save PCB as ......
- replace in the circuit all sources by appropriate ports,
- once again annotate schematic (function update changings
list)
- check whether all parts have defined footprints
- then use finction Design/Update PCB document
***.PcbDoc
- define outline of Pcb (by means of Keep out layer) and set
origin

Altium designer PCB designing

- set up all rules
- place all components
- define new size of Pcb outline
- define Pcb clamping points
- connect components (one layer board
bottom/top layer, two layers board top and
bottom layer)