NI AWR Microwave Office Interface - 64 Bit Overview
The NI AWR Microwave Office Interface 64 Bit uses the EM Socket in NI AWR’s Microwave Office to provide Sonnet’s analysis engine, em, as the “solver on request”. You may choose to edit your EM Structure in Microwave Office or in Sonnet’s project editor. However, if you choose to edit your EM structure in Sonnet’s project editor, you must analyze in the Sonnet environment and manually import the resulting data into NI AWR Microwave Office.
For users who have previously used the NI AWR Microwave Office 32 bit version, there have been some major changes made by NI AWR in their EM Socket which have affected how the Sonnet interface operates and what features are available.
If you wish to remain in the NI AWR Microwave Office environment and launch your Sonnet analysis from there, you must edit your EM structure in NI AWR Microwave Office. NI AWR Microwave Office no longer allows you to choose a native editor to use in their environment.
You may still open your EM Structure in Sonnet’s project editor and make changes, but you may no longer import your Sonnet project back into NI AWR Microwave Office after editing in the Sonnet’s project editor. As mentioned above, if you edit in Sonnet, you must remain in the Sonnet environment until you produce your analysis results, which can then be imported back into NI AWR Microwave Office.
When you edit your EM Structure in Microwave Office, the geometry is sent to Sonnet for analysis and only the analysis results are sent back to Microwave Office, as shown below.
If you choose the Native Editor, Sonnet’s project editor, to edit your geometry, the EM Structure is sent to Sonnet, changes are made in Sonnet, you run the EM analysis and then must manually import the analysis results back into Microwave Office. Any changes made in the native editor do not affect the EM structure in Microwave Office. (The Sonnet project is not imported back into Microwave Office as it could be in the 32 bit version of the interface.) This mode is pictured below.
For the 64 Bit interface
all of the Sonnet controls are accessed in the Sonnet tab in the Options
dialog box in NI AWR Microwave Office. For a detailed discussion of these
controls and how to use them, including a tutorial, please refer to the
NI AWR Microwave Offfice Interface 64
Bit manual. To access the online manuals select Help => Manuals
from any Sonnet program or click on the Manuals button on the Sonnet task
bar.
