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<strong>Sonnet</strong> User’s <strong>Guide</strong><br />

Air Dielectric Bricks<br />

Dielectric bricks can be made of any dielectric material and can be placed in any<br />

circuit layer. This allows, for instance, “alumina” bricks to be created in an “air”<br />

circuit layer. However, it is also possible to reverse this scenario. Dielectric bricks<br />

made of “air” can also be created in alumina circuit layers. This is an important<br />

consideration to remember. Depending upon the circuit geometry for a given application,<br />

this ability to reverse the dielectric characteristics may simplify the circuit<br />

and make it faster to analyze.<br />

Limitations of Dielectric Bricks<br />

Diagonal Fill<br />

Diagonal fill is not allowed for dielectric bricks. All dielectric bricks must use<br />

“staircase fill”. Thus, dielectric bricks with curved or rounded edges must be<br />

stairstep approximated. Note that the error caused by such an approximation decreases<br />

as the X and Y cell sizes are decreased. Thus, it is possible to make this<br />

error arbitrarily small by choosing sufficiently small X and Y cell sizes.<br />

Antennas and Radiation<br />

The far field viewer does not support dielectric bricks. Circuits containing dielectric<br />

bricks can be analyzed with the far field viewer, but the radiation effects of the<br />

dielectric bricks are not accounted for in the analysis.<br />

Interfaces<br />

The Agilent ADS Interface, Cadence Virtuoso Interface and AWR MWOffice do<br />

not create dielectric bricks.<br />

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