Optenni Lab is a comprehensive circuit diagram software designed to assist customers in addressing all matching challenges within the RF chain of wireless network devices, supporting the use of variable capacitors or switches for frequency automatic tuning in design problems. Here are the highlights of the software:
Efficient Matching Solutions: Optenni Lab quickly solves characteristic impedance matching problems using actual component models, thereby enhancing the productivity of antenna and RF design engineers.
Adaptability to Changes: It allows for easy compensation of new engineering changes by re-optimizing matching circuits.
Optimized Product Performance: Optenni Lab enhances the overall performance of wireless products, ensuring higher product quality.
User-Friendly Interface: Its intuitive graphical user interface benefits both novice designers and experienced RF engineers, making it easy to learn and use.
Rapid Evaluation of New Designs: Antenna design engineers can quickly assess new antenna designs and definitions with Optenni Lab.
Software Features
Comprehensive Matching Circuit Synthesis: The latest version of Optenni Lab offers automated matching circuit synthesis with fast parallelized multi-core optimization technology, providing users with a variety of optimized topologies for single and multi-port RF systems.
Optimization Using Component Libraries: Utilize component models from leading inductors and capacitors manufacturers to optimize matching circuits, considering component losses, parasitic effects, and size tolerances.
Tolerance Analysis: The tolerance analysis feature allows for easy analysis of the sensitivity of various topologies to component size tolerances, enabling the selection of different available size tolerance variables from the library components for analysis.
Tunable Antenna Design: Support for tunable antenna design, with the target frequency range converted by a network of fixed and variable components, which can be achieved through switches or dedicated tuning components.
Multi-Antenna Matching: Support for multi-antenna matching to achieve optimal efficiency, considering antenna-to-antenna coupling. Optimization settings can control efficiency and isolation.
Advanced Impedance Analysis Tools: Provides advanced analysis tools, such as network bandwidth potential difference and magnetic induction shielding calculations, for evaluating and defining antenna definitions and prototypes.
Radiation Efficiency Calculation: Support for frequency-dependent radiation efficiency data to optimize the overall efficiency of antennas.
Integration with EM and Circuit Simulators: Seamless integration with leading electromagnetic simulators for optimizing the overall efficiency of antennas, including losses from the antenna, its environment, and matching circuits. Additionally, circuit simulator integration allows for further analysis of generated matching circuits.
Connection with Vector Network Analyzers: Connection with spectrum analyzers for real-time optimization of matching circuits through precise measurements, eliminating discrepancies between measurements and simulations.
How to Use Optenni Lab
To effectively utilize Optenni Lab, follow these steps:
Import Component Models: Start by importing the specific component models relevant to your design from the extensive library.
Define Design Parameters: Set the design parameters, including frequency range, impedance targets, and any constraints.
Automate Matching Circuit Synthesis: Use the automated matching circuit synthesis to explore various topologies and find the optimal solution.
Analyze and Optimize: Perform tolerance analysis and further optimization based on the results to ensure the design meets all requirements.
Export and Integrate: Once satisfied with the design, export the matching circuit for integration into the broader system or for further analysis in other simulation tools.
By following these steps and leveraging the powerful features of Optenni Lab, designers can streamline the RF design process and achieve high-performance wireless solutions.