Cloud-based simulation of electronic components in the presence of electromagnetic fields

The increased use of electrical components in manufacturing can create electromagnetic vulnerabilities, which in turn can disturb or disrupt equipment operations. There are different ways to deal with these problems, such as changing the position and/or routing of the wires and cables or cable shielding. An electromagnetic simulator, integrated with an electrical CAD software suite, used during the design phase, on a simple PC connected to HPC, will allow manufacturers to adapt the design to reduce or eliminate electromagnetic problems before building the first prototype. Ultimately, the users would like be to be able to have a cost-effective on-demand service and to get the result only a few seconds after service invocation. The partners aim to achieve such a result via an intermediary solution that can be incorporated into the Fortissimo Marketplace to create simulation as a service. As a result of this experiment, Algo’Tech were able to demonstrate the feasibility of integrating HPC in its offer in a transparent way for the user, thus demonstrating realistic electromagnetic simulations during the design phase. Seemi will now be to be able to address electromagnetic issues at the design stage to save costs and time and to reduce problems for their customers. Finally, Inria improved its Pastix solver and opened it to “non HPC specialist” users like Algo’Tech.