General
- Better performance for extremely large VSS System Diagrams.
- Faster layout rendering of complicated structures.
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AXIEM
- Dramatically improved performance for complex multi-layer boards.
- More intelligent and easier to use geometry simplification for PCBs.
- Improved iterative solver convergence at low frequencies above DC.
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Analyst
- New and improved hierarchical matrix solver.
- Utilize resources better with improved parallelization.
- Reduce simulation time with per-shape meshing and solver options.
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Analyst Multi-physics
- Annotation refresh 10-20x faster.
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APLAC
- Faster simulations with extremely large MDIF files.
- Improved DC, Harmonic Balance, and Circuit Envelope, and Transient performance.
- Faster DC convergence due to improved dynamic voltage limiting.
- New HB coupled frequency pre-conditioner.
- Faster TAHB using HBAT.
- Improved HB piece-wise linear.
- Envelope analysis supports trapezoidal integration.
- Improvements Transient iteration, time stepping, and convolution.
- Improved Transient sparse solver and faster pivoting sparse solver available.
- Faster matrix reordering for large circuits.
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Note that while all performance improvements are problem-dependent, the items mentioned are the ones that R&D feels are significant
