Simulation Guides

Piezoelectric Micro-machined Ultrasonic Transducers (PMUTs)

OnScale allows designers to simulate PMUTs in full 3D using high fidelity FEA. Find out how you can simulate full 3D PMUT array designs for imaging applications using our simple simulation guide.

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PMUT Simulation Guide

PMUT 2D

Get started by simulating a basic 2D Axisymmetric PMUT Model. 1 min 0.03 Core-Hours

PMUT 2D Design Study

Run a design study to see the effects of electrode and substrate layer thickness on the maximum membrane displacement. 4 min 4.89 Core-Hours

PMUT Array 3D

Simulate a 10x10 3D PMUT array and capture the membrane displacement. 2 hrs 30 mins 20 Core-Hours (8 CPU)

Why Simulate PMUTs in OnScale?

Large Design Spaces

OnScale has the ability to run and evaluate 1000s of designs in parallel.

Solution to Large Problems

Run fundamental cell design to full array simulations with billion degrees of freedom to understand full system performance.

Fingerprint Imaging

Full fingerprint imaging and opitmization of imaging algorithms possible.

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Additional Resources

Whitepaper

Accelerating Ultrasonic Fingerprint Sensor R&D with Cloud Simulation

In this paper, OnScale describes the virtual prototyping and beamforming optimization of a 110 x 56 PMUT array fingerprint sensor first designed and prototyped by Horsley et al at the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center.

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Webinar

Time-domain Simulation of Electro-mechanical Sensors and Systems

OnScale will explore and analyze some of the common pain-problems in the sensor space.

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Blog

How to Understand the Simulation Results of a PMUT Ultrasonic Transducer in OnScale

In this article, we discuss how to understand and visualize correctly the results coming out of a PMUT ultrasonic sensor simulation in the OnScale Post-Processing Mode.

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