Sonnet Lite Changelog

What's new in Sonnet Lite 15.53

• Patvu crashes when you click on center of polar plot for some projects.
• Queued job on Windows platform never runs
• Em can crash (out of memory, FFT) when the number of X and Y cells in the box is very large.
• Em gives bd error code (instead of nl) when first cal standard is 180 degrees.
• Xgeom misplaces the selected point of thick metal polygons after zooming.
• Put buttons on side of cvbridge interface to simulate, look at results, etc.
• Saving a new matl file may not have write and executable permissions.
• User can enter a floating point number for number of sheets, number of points, metal color, etc.
• If browsing from a bad directory, browser opens for son file under that directory in cvbridge
• If you delete material then cancel substrate file, analysis box covers are not reset in cvbridge
• Emvu displays extraneous port that isn't really present.
• Enhance Touchstone S-parameter data file read to ignore noise data.
• Sonnet windows programs give "Node lock" error when they shouldn't.
• Add help menu to cvbridge to bring up Sonnet help.
• Trace window edit controls are too short.
• Thick Metal Conformal Mesh polygon touching lossless thin polygon results in an open circuit.
• When added Al1um in cvbridge, the top and bottom metal covers in the analysis box were set to Al1um.
• Em resimulates when project includes two overlapped ABS sweeps.
• Support Touchstone 2.0 format
• Enhance Components and Co-Calibrated ports (CCI) to work with metal traces on different metal levels.
• Open circuit at thin-metal conformal mesh to thick-metal conformal mesh junction.
• The solver requires a huge amount of memory when analyzing Netlist project with large datafiles.
• Xgeom's output files dialog boxes do not contain "include comments" option.
• Enhance em so that it can mesh (subsection) circuits without any ports.
• Be able to read in an Agilent .tch file and write out to any file format supported.
• Customer loses em license for no reason.
• Some CPW and differential lines on lossy silicon give "bd" de-embedding error message.
• Remove soncad_install.il from the data directory since it has been replaced with sonnet_virtuoso_install.il by V15 for cvbridge.
• 3D View => Export Picture does not work on Windows 7 64-bit machines.
• Add RLGC model to the list of models that can be created in cvbridge.
• Em fails to generate box resonance warning for calibration standards.
• Look at supporting unused and tristate pin type directions in the future in cvbridge.
• Remove old make_license files from resource folder.
• Installation should create backup copy of threadcontrol.ini file.
• Emvu fails to show via ports on ground.
• Minor typo in installation script.
• Enhance Sonnet to use a hierarchy when searching for sonnet.ini file (local, global sonnet.ini).
• Consider enabling "Append" by default with DXF and GDSII Import.
• Add auto margin set up in cvbridge to make it 100% at all times.
• Add union geometry to the translators dialog (GDSII, dxf, gerber) in xgeom, similar to how we have it in the interfaces.
• Patvu crashes on surface plot with parameterized balun example.
• Em may incorrectly revert conformal polygons on box wall to staircase depending upon reference plane settings.
• Implement via stop (auto height) in ebridge.
• There are certain environment variables in cvbridge for Create SonnetEM form that need to be set in the form when it is opened.
• Layout look-alike components in ebridge seem so much bigger now in total in ADS2011 than in ADS2009 when there are internal ports.
• Unpacking files command does not remember the correct directory.
• In cvbridge, if the pin name has an exclamation point in it, the read of the temp file crashes.
• In sonmatl, if sheet resistance or resistivity is specified for Assura, we need to translate as is now.
• In sonmatl, if sheet resistance or resistivity is specified for Helic, we need to translate as is now.
• Xgeom crashes when dimension parameter controls a component.
• Xgeom shouldn't allow user to set reference plane for floating co-cal port.
• Requested updates to sondiag for v14.54.
• Correct issues and crashes in the project editor related to applying dimension parameters to components.
• Eliminate Help topic on em command line options because it is in the manual.
• Sonnet task bar gives internal error when checking variable check box in environment settings.
• Dividing a local polygon makes two inherit polygons.
• Component physical size bug.
• Browse window... has .zgr files in the filter when they should not be an option.
• Need to create Inductor Model Help category.
• Emstatus - Unusual context sensitive help message.
• Update documentation for inductor model extraction (IME).
• Xgeom crashes when deleting a dielectric layer.
• Remove the conversion tab from preferences in xgeom.
• Em may crash when circuit with components and output files is simulated using parameter sweep.
• Ruler measurements are wrong when measuring between reference planes.
• Quick Start Guide does not get updated in some cases.
• Changes in ADS 2011.10 caused a invalid pin location within the layout look-alike.
• Em may crash when multi-sheet thick metal diagonal feedline is de-embedded.
• Changing cocal port. to floating is not remembered.
• Cannot get emcluster license when solver licenses are node locked.
• Em should give "dr" de-embedding code for diagonal co-calibrated ports.
• Co-calibrated port error message is too wide and gets cut off in Estimate Memory window.
• Improve conformal mesh for stacked metal octagonal spiral inductor.
• Em may crash when de-embedding stacked thick metal feedlines.
• Xgeom does not let you save after license is lost.
• Editing tech layer's metal type does not set the needs saving flag.
• Circuit for which section of CM polygon overlapping via polygon is not properly converted to staircase mesh.
• There is small probability of em crash for circuits using symmetry.
• Em gives internal error for stacked metal circuit using conformal mesh.
• Uncommented N-coupled line models from Sonnet will hang Cadence Virtuoso.
• Auto-grounded ports on box-wall are shorted out if they are connected to thick metal polygon.
• Em may give nonsensical warning message while de-embedding co-calibrated port.
• Em may incorrectly revert section of conformal polygon to staircase mesh due to reference plane.
• Investigate circuit for which conformal mesh section reverts to staircase mesh when de-embedding is disabled.
• Identify MAC addresses in Host ID window.
• Inductor model extraction (IME) gives IMSL math function error for circuits not simulated to maximum differential Q.
• Em may corrupt data when circuit with dependent component parameter is simulated a second time.
• Em may resimulate unnecessarily when circuit includes dependent component parameter.
• Change IME, Broadband spice, and PI Spice output format to use "REF" for the reference node (not GND or 0).
• Xgeom auto create tech layers corrupts circuit subdivision sections.
• Xgeom forces deletion of data while editing component when it is not necessary.
• Conformal mesh leaves out all spiral metal on one level in some Stacked metal spiral inductor circuits.
• Changing the "to" level of a via tech layer doesn't change the "to" level of its local polygons.
• Editing material from the tech layer window allows users to change the name to a name already in use.
• Single layer Gerber import ignores the layer mapping.
• Emgraph's Copy button in IME's schematic window uses Linux carriage returns even on the PC.
• Factory Defaults button does not change Via Options settings for DXF Export Options.
• Xgeom's box resonance error message has misspelled word.
• View => Toolbar and Status bar checks are not working.
• Xgeom export to version 13.52 fails to remove MUC and voltage/current source elements.
• Emgraph gives a Port Termination Notice when it shouldn't.
• Emvu crashes after certain operations when 3D animation is stopped in Low Memory setting.
• Xgeom terminates with internal error when tech layer level is changed simultaneously for planar metal and via.
• Cvbridge without a license should close subsectioning dialog.
• Xgeom gives warning message once number of cells is greater than 99,999 (scientific notation).
• sonstackviewer uses an old file browse window.
• sonstackviewer does not show the filename when loading a matl file.
• Programs sometimes don't run because installation of libraries was not completed.
• Lost Dielectric data when you have multiple dielectrics with the same name.
• Emstatus progress bar may show 100% complete before simulation is actually done.
• If there is no remote em license, local job cannot run, emstatus won't open.
• Sonnet task bar can not set a license to an existing license file.
• Gerber Single Layer Import does not appear to handle units properly with some files.
• Circuit for which conformal mesh gives open-circuit s-parameters.
• cvbridge's "Lossless Extensions" checkbox doesn't do anything.
• Xgeom should display warning message when netlist data is deleted after component value is changed.
• Gerber via tech layer name is not used during import.
• Gerber import does not set the filename in tech layer's mapping name.
• Change the warning message trigger and content when Mrel and Erel are less than 1.
• Circuit for which total matrix fill time is greater than sum of fft, coupling, and loss times.
• Model Yields Internal Error with the use of Manual GLG Ports.
• Enhance the Co-Cal Port Auto-Grouping Algorithm to handle attached cases better.
• cvbridge's error threshold for bbspice does not match xgeom and emgraph's.
• Circuit for which CM reverts to staircase mesh when de-embedding is off and unused reference plane crosses over polygon.
• Em gives nonsensical error message for circuit with co-calibrated port on diagonal polygon edge.
• Em fails to delete ABS cache data when frequency sweep combinations is used with DC sweep.
• Conformal mesh leaves out metal for one level of stacked metal spiral inductor.
• Em fails with "incompatible" error message for circuit with conformal mesh polygon.
• Modify criteria for generating "bd" de-embedding error code and associated warning message.
• Em may give nonsensical warning message while de-embedding co-calibrated port.
• Metal loss calculation time is slower than it needs to be for circuits without conformal mesh.
• Em may crash when every subsection is also a port.
• CM reversion to staircase mesh fails for circuit creating subsections where none should exist.
• Improve warning message about reference plane extending beyond a discontinuity.
• Enhance em to display memory in units other than just MB.
• Em incorrectly gives "nd" de-embedding code for diagonal co-calibrated ports when it should instead give "dr" code.
• Emclient gives internal error for combination of parameter sweep, current density data, and remoteem.
• Copying a tech layer polygon with an attached parameter to a different level crashes xgeom.
• Co-calibrated port can be shorted out when metal on adjacent level is midway between grid points.
• em and emgraph's N-coupled line model is wrong for asymmetric coupled lines
• IME uses wrong internal ground.
• Linux file view filter does not ignore case.
• Enhance ABS to use out-of-band cache data when it will result in faster convergence.
• Emvu cannot display generic GLG polygons as GLG Metal because em fails to supply required information.
• Interfaces cvbridge and ebridge sometimes running 32-bit instead of 64-bit em for large runs.
• N-coupled line model may yield asymmetric L and R matrices.
• Xgeom gives cryptic error and may crash if you click on local origin when adding a Dimension Parameter.
• Xgeom (v14) print gives small printout and footer is written across the circuit.
• Add feedline command.
• Co-calibrated port reference planes may be corrupted during auto-grouping.
• Co-calibrated port reference planes may be lost when two or more ports are manually grouped.
• Circuit for which em incorrectly auto-groups two co-calibrated ports separated by other circuit metal.
• Circuit for which em gives incorrect co-calibrated port group error message.
• Fast solver Error Message Displaying the an invalid lvl number.
• IME gives IMSL error for circuit not simulated to peak of differential Q-factor.
• Em may resimulate DC frequency on subsequent runs.
• Enhance EM Solver to check for Components outside of analysis box
• Emgraph issues EH10405 error when copying Group Delay equation.
• Cvbridge's Check License gives erroneous message: "Check IC Solvers license (icsolvers) FAILED"
• Cvbridge load eff file does not work after first time when frequency list is modified.
• Em gives misaligned co-calibrated ports error for circuit with very narrow stub polygons.
• Xgeom crashes when hovering over port that used to have a linked reference plane.
• Em may crash or terminate with error if port has negative number and independent reference plane.
• Em stores dependent parameter values incorrectly in SID data when netlist project is optimized.
• Emgraph autosave fails when Y Shunt is plotted.
• Remove Example Browser's warning message when it sees an empty directory/folder.
• If you check symmetry and immediately press the Estimate Memory button, the command fails.
• Surface loss plot in emvu doesn't account for overlapped polygons with different loss parameters.
• View => Components does not turn off components with subsection viewer.
• Layout look-alike in ebridge works in older versions of ADS but in newer versions, the units have to match up.
• Emvu's 3D options checkbox "remember options" gets checked when other checkboxes are checked.
• Error and warning messages displayed in Estimated Memory window should not be indented.
• Em may incorrectly terminate with port shorted error when co-calibrated port is attached to thick metal octagonal polygon.
• Em may hang while meshing circuit with parallel subsection removal enabled.
• Circuit for which RLGC model gives non-reciprocal s-parameters.
• Cannot Install 64bit Ebridge from Sonnet Task Bar for ADS 2014.
• Via loss model is wrong in both the fast and accurate solvers when sheet resistance is used in combination with solid volume model.
• Response data for circuit shows significant noise due to area of influence algorithm.
• Em may incorrectly treat vias as lossless if all planar metal in circuit happens to be lossless.
• Enhance em to support pre-sweep at in-band box resonant frequencies.
• Emgraph Axis Setup dialog box uses unintuitive order when user presses tab key.
• Conformal mesh subsections are allowed to be 50% larger than subs/lambda setting.
• Xgeom's load technology reads sheet resistance values as if they were conductivities.
• Em incorrectly stops with conformal mesh small gap error for attached circuit.
• Allow user to order presets as they show up in preset list in cvbridge.
• soninstallservice does not work on Red Hat 7.
• Xgeom crashes on Linux because Technology Layer dbox is not locked while editing meshing properties.
• Remoteem fails to add dc frequency data to output files until very end of simulation.
• Layout look-alike symbol will not work in ADS2011 and above when the units of the Sonnet project do not match the units of the ADS layout.
• Creating lossless extensions does not work in cvbridge.
• Emstatus sometimes displays actual DC simulation frequency rather than 0.0 GHz underneath progress bar.
• Emstatus displays unusual calibration standard names while de-embedding co-calibrated ports.
• Emstatus shows "Analysis Error" when simulation is stopped while em is de-embedding co-calibrated ports.
• Em gives conformal mesh complex overlapping error message for octagonal inductor.
• MWOINT: Add "Auto Height Vias" to Sonnet's Microwave Office Interface.
• Cvbridge: enhance cvbridge by adding auto height vias to the interface.
• Ebridge: enhance ebridge by adding auto height vias to the interface.
• Zooming into region then exporting project crashes xgeom.
• Em crashes during de-embedding when port is 1/2 cell above symmetry line and number of Y cells in box is odd.
• Em warning message about ABS and box resonances has uncapitalized word at beginning of sentence.
• Tools=> Add Feedline Mode on Linux.