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ANSYS develops engineering simulation software for use in a range of engineering disciplines, including electronic design. ANSYS brings together a broad range of analysis and simulation tools into a single interface, called ANSYS® Electronics Desktop™. Using ANSYS Electronics Desktop, engineers can integrate rigorous 2D and 3D physics analyses with system and circuit simulations, all inside a single framework.
ANSYS SIwave is a design platform for power integrity, signal integrity and EMI analysis, that can be used for both printed circuit boards and IC design.
ECAD software, such as Altium Designer, can interface to ANSYS Electronics Desktop by exporting the PCB layout as an EDB file.
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The PCB layout is transferred to ANSYS Electronics Desktop by exporting it as an EDB file. The exported file is generated by the Ansys EDB extension.
To export an ANSYS EDB file, the Ansys EDB Exporter extension must be installed in Altium Designer.
To install the extension, click at the top right of the application then select Extensions and Updates to access the Extensions & Updates page. Locate the Ansys EDB Exporter extension on the Purchased tab.
Hover the cursor over the icon then click to download the extension. You will be prompted to restart Altium Designer in order to complete the installation of the extension.
To export the PCB layout, along with the components and connectivity, select File » Export » Ansys EDB from the PCB editor menus.
The exported data is written into a file in an automatically created EDB folder, named as follows:
\[Project folder]\[Project name].edb\edb.def
The following PCB objects are exported:
For each component, the following component data is exported:
Once the PCB design as been exported as an EDB.def file, it can be imported into any ANSYS tool that supports EDB Import.
In ANSYS, this is done via the File » Import » EDB command.
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