Analysis of a Component
When using a data file Component type, frequencies in your data file do not need to precisely match the Sonnet analysis frequencies. The analysis engine will interpolate between data file frequencies if necessary, but it will not extrapolate outside the frequency range of the data file.
When the analysis engine analyzes your circuit with a Component, it first performs an electromagnetic analysis of the geometry, then uses circuit theory to connect the Component to the geometry. If you change the data file used for a Component or the value and/or type of an ideal component, in subsequent analyses em only needs to perform the circuit theory part of the analysis, significantly reducing processing time. Please note that any graphs of the response are not automatically updated. Instead, you need to select Graph ⇒ Refresh to update your graph in the response viewer.
For Sonnet project components, the analysis engine, em, runs an analysis on the Component project as part of the analysis of the main project and stores analysis results for the component project. The data resulting from the analysis of the Component project is then used in the circuit theory part of the main analysis. This data will be reused as long as no changes are made to the Component project.