An efficient full-wave simulation algorithm for multiple vertical conductors in printed circuits

Abstract

An efficient and rigorous numerical method, based on the spatial-domain method of moments (MoM) in conjunction with the closed-form Green's functions, is devised for the analysis of multiple vertical conductors in printed circuits. As this combination has already proven to be very efficient for the analysis of printed structures with horizontal and vertical conductors, it is extended to efficiently handle multiple vertical conductors. Some circuits with multiple vertical strips are analyzed using the proposed method, and results are compared either to those presented in the literature or to those obtained from the commercial software em by SONNET Software, North Syracuse, NY. Computational efficiency of the algorithm is assessed in terms of CPU time, and it is observed that the computational cost of the proposed algorithm is an order of magnitude less than that of the straightforward implementation of the underlaying method of the algorithm-the spatial-domain MOM using closed-form Green's functions.