Ansoft's 2005 HFSS Users Workshops Showcase Customers' Success

PITTSBURGH--March 16, 2005--Ansoft

Technical presentations by more than a dozen expert designers from leading high-performance electronics companies, including Intel, Motorola and Freescale, highlighted this year's HFSS Users Workshop.

More than 200 customers attended the events in San Jose and Boston to discuss their design challenges and share how HFSS helps to solve them. According to Peter Aaen, of Freescale Semiconductor, "The main benefit of attending the workshop is to exchange ideas with peers, interact with Ansoft staff and gain insight into Ansoft's product roadmap."

The opening keynote from Ansoft Founder and CTO Dr. Zoltan Cendes, titled "Best in Class, Better Together," illustrated how best-in-class circuit and field-simulation technologies from Ansoft combine in a dynamically linked design environment to enable 10x improvements in RF design complexity and design time.

HFSS was widely acclaimed by customers for delivering practical value. "Thank you Ansoft for such a wonderful tool as HFSS," said Guo Chen, of Hughes Network Systems, during his presentation on the design of a satellite antenna feed network for the DIRECWAY(R) system. Other attendees concur, with the following companies also sharing their design successes at this year's event:

--  Intel                        --  Motorola
--  Hughes Network Systems       --  Hewlett-Packard
--  NASA                         --  Freescale Semiconductor
--  Amphenol RF                  --  Sarnoff Corporation
--  Cushcraft Corporation        --  Stanford Linear Accelerator 
                                      Center (SLAC)
--  Optimal Designs              --  Sun Microsystems
--  NAVAIR

To download user presentations from this year's workshop, visit www.ansoft.com/hfworkshop05. Previous HFSS workshop presentations also are available at www.ansoft.com/workshops/archived.cfm.

About HFSS(TM)

HFSS is the industry-standard software for S-parameter and full-wave SPICE extraction as well as EM simulation of high-frequency and high-speed components. HFSS is widely used for the design of on-chip embedded passives, PCB interconnects, antennas, RF/microwave components and high-frequency IC packages. To learn more, visit www.hfss.com.

About Ansoft

Ansoft is a leading developer of high-performance electronic design automation (EDA) software. Engineers use Ansoft software to design state-of-the-art electronic products, such as cellular phones, Internet-access devices, broadband networking components and systems, integrated circuits (ICs), printed circuit boards (PCBs), automotive electronic systems, power electronics, and fuel-cell technology. Ansoft markets its products worldwide through its own direct sales force and has comprehensive customer-support and training offices throughout North America, Asia, and Europe. To learn more, please visit www.ansoft.com.