ANSYS Q3D Extractor is the premier 3-D and 2-D parasitic extraction software tool for engineers designing PCBs, electronic packaging and power electronic equipment. Q3D Extractor uses method of moments (integral equations) and FEMs to compute capacitive, conductance, inductance, and resistance matrices. It uses the fast multipole method (FMM) to accelerate the solution of the integral equations. Outputs from the solver include current and voltage distributions, CG and RL matrices. Q3D Extractor efficiently performs the 3-D and 2-D electromagnetic field simulation required for the extraction of resistance, conductance, partial inductance and capacitance RLCG parameters from a design and automatically generates a netlist in many formats, including SML (Simplorer format) and SPICE. Q3D Extractor is capable of generating S-parameters exported using the Touchstone® format, which represent the n-port network parameter data of a device or passive interconnect network. Such frequency dependency can be included in simulations through dynamic links with Ansoft Designer and Simplorer products. New in Q3D Extractor 10.0 * Highly efficient CG, ACRL and DCRL solver algorithms * High-performance computing (HPC) options * Support for Apache CPP * Automated links to ANSYS Workbench * Thermal stress analysis with ANSYS Mechanical * Statistical analysis with ANSYS DesignXplorer software