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Chapter 3 The Basics
Sonnet Applications
Sonnet's suites of high-frequency electromagnetic (EM) Software are aimed at
designs involving predominantly planar (3D planar) circuits and antennas.
Predominantly planar circuits include:
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Arbitrary microstrip & stripline circuits
Planar spiral inductors
RFIC & MMIC circuits
Planar filter analysis
High Speed Digital Interconnects
High density interconnects
Multi-layer circuits like LTCC and PCB technology
Microwave circuit discontinuities
Planar (patch) antennas
Circuits with vias, vertical metal sheets (z-directed strips), and any
number of layers of metal traces embedded in stratified dielectric
material.
For more information on Sonnet’s applications, see our website at:
http://www.sonnetsoftware.com/products/em/applications.asp
Sonnet Projects
There are two types of projects in Sonnet: the Geometry Project and the Netlist
Project. A geometry project contains a circuit whose properties are entered by the
user or provided by translating a file to the Sonnet environment. A netlist project
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