Montreux, Switzerland, 12-14 May 2004 PERFORMANCE SIMULATION OF A MICROWAVE MICRO-ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM SHUNT SWITCH USING CHATOYANT
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The case study presented in this paper is a demonstration of our mixed-signal, multi-domain system level simulation tool Chatoyant. We have developed Chatoyant to support modeling and simulating of microopto-electro-mechanical systems. In this paper we demonstrate the capabilities of Chatoyant to model and simulate an RF MEMS shunt switch. We perform a system level simulation of the RF switch and verify our mechanical results using the commercial simulation packages, ANSYS and CoventorWare.
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