CST University Publication Award

It's that time of year again. The CST University Award 2010 has been announced our website.

Over the last couple of years we have enjoyed reading an increasing number of interesting papers on diverse topics from the world's upcoming university researchers. Prerequisites for participation are that the papers are authored or co-authored by academic researchers, published either in scientific journals or conference proceedings, and the numerical results are entirely or in part obtained through simulation using CST software products. Submissions are evaluated on a number of criteria including originality of the application or the theory, clarity of presentation, as well as the skilful usage of CST software features.

The selection process for the 2009 award is still going on, but I'll post the winning submissions as soon as they have been announced. You can take a look at the winners from the past 4 years here (copyright permitting):

• CST Uni Award 2008


• CST Uni Award 2007


• CST Uni Award 2006


• CST Uni Award 2005

If you are an academic researcher and have penned a paper, in English, that was published in either in scientific journals or conference proceedings between April 1st 2009 and March 31st 2010 , and the numerical results are entirely or in part obtained through simulation using CST software products, then please send me a copy. You never know, maybe you will be among the winners of an upgraded CST STUDIO SUITE licence for one year.

Martin

Signal Integrity Webinar (for free)

Eric Bogatin is offering a new webinar exploring "Link Analysis with Return Path Discontinuities".
Scheduled for JULY 7, 1 pm eastern time, this webinar will explore "the impact of return path gaps and via transitions on high speed serial signals using VNA measurements, 3D full wave simulations, behavioral models and circuit simulations, comparing predicted and measured eye patterns from FPGA drivers."
You need to register to attend no later than 12 noon Eastern on July 6.

Can you trust your simulations?

The reliability of EM simulation results is always in discussion, so you can imagine I was interested to read a piece on "The importance of full wave simulation validation" on the Interference technology website (Bruce Archambault and Samuel Connor) this month. They put forward the case for validation, arguing that "regardless of the accuracy of the modeling tool, each modeling exercise requires some level of validation before simulation results can be trusted." In the summany, they stress that "Multiple simulation techniques applied to the same model is a good way to insure that the correct physics are included in the model and that the appropriate physics are modeled correctly."

Take a look and read it for yourself.

Martin Timm

What's this all about

Welcome to CST's new technology blog. I'm going to be posting on all things EM simulation related.

Working for a leading 3D EM simulation vendor (http://www.cst.com/) gives me a great opportunity to pass-on our latest product information, but I am going to try to offer more in the form of articles from leaders in the industry, both theoretical and application oriented, as well as thoughts on the general state of play in the world we work in.

That's it for now.