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Welcome to IntelliSuite: Your Complete MEMS Design and Simulation Solution

At IntelliSense, we're dedicated to providing cutting-edge solutions for MEMS design and simulation. Welcome to IntelliSuite, where innovation meets precision engineering.

Revolutionary MEMS Design Software

Our IntelliSuite software revolutionizes MEMS design, offering comprehensive tools for every stage of the design process. From conceptualization to prototyping, our intuitive platform empowers engineers to create MEMS devices with unparalleled efficiency and accuracy.

Advanced Simulation Capabilities

With IntelliSuite, you can simulate the performance of your MEMS devices with precision. Our advanced simulation capabilities allow you to analyze various parameters, such as motion, stress, and thermal behavior, ensuring optimal performance under real-world conditions.

Why Choose IntelliSuite?

  • Comprehensive Solution: Our software offers all the tools you need for MEMS design and simulation, eliminating the need for multiple platforms.
  • User-Friendly Interface: IntelliSuite features an intuitive interface designed for ease of use, reducing learning curves and accelerating project timelines.
  • Accurate Results: Our simulation algorithms are rigorously tested and validated, ensuring accurate results that you can trust.
  • Dedicated Support: At IntelliSense, we're committed to your success. Our team of experts is here to provide guidance and support every step of the way.

Unlock the Power of MEMS Design with IntelliSuite

Ready to revolutionize your MEMS design process? Explore the possibilities with IntelliSuite and experience the future of MEMS engineering today.

Living Design Environment

IntelliSuite is a tightly integrated design environment that will link your entire MEMS organization together. Built to scale from a point tool to an organization-wide tool, IntelliSuite unifies various engineering and manufacturing tasks into a single living design environment.

Designed around collaboration, IntelliSuite allows the design, process,packaging and system teams collaborate on MEMS devices that can be prototyped and manufactured with fewer costly iterations.

Industry standard

After close to two decades in continuous development, IntelliSuite now boasts the widest range of features available in a MEMS tool, and remains unsurpassed in its simulation capabilities, robustness and ease of use. That’s why IntelliSuite serves users in more than 35 countries, including the majority of the top MEMS manufacturers, research organizations and MEMS universities. And that’s why it’s the industry standard software for MEMS.

Seamless design flow

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IntelliSuite contains a wide range of closely integrated tools to seamlessly go from schematic capture and optimization to design verification and tapeout. A flexible design flow allows you to start your design at either schematic, layout or 3D level.

IntelliSuite consists of a number of advanced tools that work together. For instance, Synple allows you to capture your MEMS at a schematic level, much like SPICE for electrical circuits. Your design can then be quickly iterated and optimized at different granularities. Sophisticated synthesis algorithms can automatically convert your schematic into mask layout, 3D or better yet a meshed structure for full multiphysics analysis.

Blueprint, is a physical design tool that incorporates advanced layout, design rule check, cross-section exploration, and automated mask to hex mesh capabilities. CleanRoom process suite allows you to create and debug your process flow and your mask set before you enter the clean room. It allows you to make virtual prototypes to save costly fabrication mistakes. Advanced Fastfield Multiphysics tools feature fully coupled electrostatic, mechanical, fluidic, and electromagnetic engines. Advanced Model Order Reduction based Extraction techniques capture electromechanical, fluidic and damping behavior into compact models, while EDA Linker seamlessly links IntelliSuite to other leading EDA tools.

Design the next small thing …

IntelliSuite comes with all the design tools required to take your product from concept to market. We ship a full complement of tools with which you can perform process modeling, device layout and device analysis. In fact, IntelliSuite comes standard with completely coupled electrical, piezo-electrical, mechanical and thermal analysis tools for executing linear or non-linear static or transient analysis, while optional modules for electromagnetic, fluidic and system analysis are also available.

At IntelliSense, we constantly monitor the latest developments in the MEMS industry for new features and capabilities. And if we haven’t already provided everything you’re looking for, we can develop customized features to meet your specific needs.

Year to date, countless MEMS professionals have successfully utilized IntelliSuite to design and bring many MEMS to market. If you’re a MEMS professional, IntelliSuite will give you the unlimited creative freedom to realize virtually any MEMS you can dream up. Use it to design and develop your next big or small idea!

360° overview

As an engineering manager, IntelliSense provides you all the tools you need to monitor every aspect of the MEMS development. You can explore MEMS development at different granularity from high-level cost estimates and yield projections to mid-level design analysis studies, low-level process flow or metrology data. Intended for use company-wide, IntelliSuite supplies an effective mechanism to consolidate your broad organizational MEMS knowledge in one repository.


Design devices and biosystems in IntelliSuite's Electro-Thermo-Mechanical Analysis Module Design devices and biosystems in IntelliSuite's Electro-Thermo-Mechanical Analysis Module

Design Win

With IntelliSuite, we furnish device designers like you with the comprehensive design exploration tools necessary to follow your unlimited creativity. That's why IntelliSuite includes SYNPLE and a full suite of FEM/BEM analysis tools that will allow you to design such diverse MEMS as sensors and actuators, RF and optical MEMS, and microfluidic devices and biosystems.

Process Flow Process Flow

Yield a productive crop

If you are a process/manufacturing engineer, our design for manufacturing (DFM) tools grant you the capability to implement your first-time right designs. The across-the-board selection of IntelliSense process tools include virtual prototyping and 3D traveler visualization, thin film material characterization and optimization tools and databases, wet and dry-etch simulators, and Monte Carlo tools for yield prediction. So, whatever your process engineering goals maybe, our process-specific tools will help you achieve them.

DRIE & Wet Etching (Si) Spray Etching (Cu)

Piezoelectric based MEMS Micro-mirror design and analysis

Systems - made simple

IntelliSense enables electrical and system engineers to create and simulate complex MEMS models with exceptional ease. Thanks to SYNPLE, MEMS system design is as fundamental as dragging and dropping, and wiring the schematic. In addition, EDA Linker automatically generates high fidelity HDL (Verilog, VHDL, Simulink or SPICE) models of the MEMS and package to fit your favorite Mixed Signal simulator from Cadence, Mentor, Synopsys, Mathworks or Tanner.

Package/device couple analysis Package gyro Macro-Model Extraction with thermal effects

Wrap it up!

As a packaging engineer, IntelliSense offers you tools for thermal, mechanical and high-frequency modeling of your devices. Parametric scripting capabilities allow you to effortlessly create a range of packages, such as SOICs, DIPs, QFPs etc. What's more, wafer-level encapsulation and related stress analyses may be performed with ease. As a result, you can wrap up your projects quickly and efficiently!

Parametric test structures and design of experiments (DoE) during the layout process Parametric test structures and design of experiments (DoE) during the layout process

Ace the test

Working together, IntelliSuite and SYNPLE give test engineers a straightforward method for creating parametric test structures and design of experiments (DoE) during the layout process. What's more, our analysis and system simulation tools allow you to perform a vast subset of MIL-STD (750/883), JEDEC (JESD22) and Telcordia (Belcore) tests in software before the actual fabrication. For success in your next test, turn to IntelliSuite!

IntelliSenses software architecture is based upon a unique combination of the best of bottom up process-driven design and top down synthesis. Top down methodology allows you to quickly explore a wide range of design options, while bottom up design provides the accuracy to produce first-time right silicon.

The accurate bottom up process-driven design and top down schematic-driven synthesis are combined to get you to your designs faster and with less process iterations.

Download the whitepaper to learn how you can get to first time right design!

From the Top, Down

State-of-the-art schematic capture and simulation tools allow you to take a hierarchical approach to the design space. SYNPLE provides a large multi-domain library of electrical, mechanical, thermal, and MEMS libraries. These elements may be combined in an effortless drag-and-drop fashion and then wired to create schematics of multi-domain systems. As a result, you can quickly survey a large design space before initiating a detailed analysis and verification process. Users can perform device level optimization using Design of Experiments (DoE), Robust Design or other techniques.

Mask and Hex Mesh Synthesis tools

Mask and Hex Mesh Synthesis tools in IntelliSuite

Built in place and route and synthesis algorithms can be then used to convert the schematic into a mask layout or an optimally hexahedral meshed model ready for full 3d analysis.

From the Bottom, Up

IntelliSuite’s bottom up architecture is based upon process elements familiar process steps, such as photolithography, thin film deposition, selective etching form the basis of understanding the final device geometries. By systematically building the prototype in IntelliSuite, you can identify costly process bugs before entering the fab, which ultimately saves time and money. The process steps, combined with the mask geometries, can be used to build the final virtual device.
Blueprint, an advanced layout and TapeOut all angle Physical Verification (DRC) tools allow you to layout complex masks with ease. Automated hexahedral meshing techniques can be used to construct robust meshes for analysis.

Real-world connections

IntelliSuite provides a full anisotropic wet etch simulator for creating realistic models

IntelliSuite features a comprehensive material database, which allows you to understand material properties like conductivity, film stresses and mechanicall strength as a function of processing parameters. Subsequently, this enables you to produce more realistic models.
Etching has always been a bugbear in MEMS technology. We’ve provided wet and dry etch simulators — a full anisotropic wet etch simulator for creating realistic models of your KOH, TMAH or EDP etches, and a dry etch simulator for simulating RIE/ICP and Bosch etch processes.

Fastfield Multiphysics

Perform fully coupled thermal, electrostatic, fluidic and mechanical simulation and piezo simulation of the MEMS device in IntelliSuite

IntelliSuite comes with all the modules that you need to perform fully coupled thermal, electrostatic, fluidic and mechanical simulation and piezo simulation of the MEMS device. Optional modules for electromagnetic and fluidic/bioMEMS analysis are available. Out of the box, you can analyze almost any MEMS device that you can dream up! The IntelliSuite virtual device can be subjected to a combination of inputs, such as electrostatics, electromagnetic fields, temperature, mechanical stresses and pressures, and fluid flow.

Compact Model Extraction

IntelliSuite uses state-of-the-art model reduction techniques to automatically create compact system models from large finite element models. System models encompass coupled electro-mechanical behavior including stress stiffening, electrostatic softening, packaging effects, fluidic and other sources of damping. These accurate compact models can be exported to VHDL, Verilog-A, SPICE, Matlab and other tools for full MEMS-ASIC co-simulation.

Open system

IntelliSuite is designed to be an open system that’s compatible with other tools. We speak a wide range of file formats, including DXF and GDS II (for mask import and export), IGES and PATRAN (solid model or FEA input), ABAQUS, ANSYS (FEA model import and export) and Touchstone (high-frequency analysis). Our macro-models can be used in conjunction with H-SPICE, SPECTRE, HFSS, ADMS, ELDO, Matlab/Simulink, SystemVision or other VHDL-AMS, Verilog-A or SPICE based tools for further system integration. All the analysis results and solid models can be exported to AVI or JPG format to enhance your next presentation or report. In addition, all of our file formats are rigorously documented and available, which means that, like other tools on the market, vendor lock-in is never an issue.

All-in-one or À la Carte

IntelliSuite was designed in a modular fashion so that you can choose the functionality that you want without overpaying. Our flexible purchasing policy allows you to buy individual modules at a later stage to add to your functionality.

Popular options include the following bundles:

Design Suite

Blueprint, TapeOut, and CSViewer

Clean Room (Process)

includes all the process modules

MEMS Analysis

3DBuilder, Fastfield ThermoElectroMechanical Module and EDALinker

BioMEMS Suite

3DBuilder and Microfluidics Analysis

System and Synthesis

Synple, Hexpresso and MEMSynth

Perfect Pitch

Export to Microsoft PowerPoint is a powerful new feature in IntelliSenses Clean Room suite of process simulation and visualization tools. IntelliSenses new layout editor BluePrint allows you to link to a process flow and look at a 2D cross-section of your mask at any orientation. These cross-sections at each process step can be exported to PowerPoint for easy documentation and sharing.

FabViewer, our 3D process visualization tool, can also export a PowerPoint file with a slide for each process step. Also included at the end of the document is a helpful summary of the lithography, deposition, and etching steps.

Export to Powerpoint

Export process flows in cross-section or full 3D mode. Download the PPT/PDF file below to get a look at the high-quality export capability.

Electrothermal Actuator (3D)

Multi-layer beam (2D)

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Parametric scripting

IntelliSuite design tools are scriptable, enabling you to create complex designs through scripting. We have built in a language-independent scripting engine so that you can script with the language of your choice.

An extensive library

IntelliSuite ships with an extensive parametric library of commonly used MEMS elements, ranging from linear and rotary comb drives to release plates and springs. In addition, we have included a large library of test elements, such as stress and stress gradient indicators, Guckel rings and Euler beams for measuring the material properties of your thin films.

Customize everything

IntelliSuite applications can be tailor fit to your needs or whims. Everything from Menus to keyboard shortcuts and accelerators, to icons and toolbars to application layouts can be customized to fit your precise needs.

If you are migrating from another tool, you can customize toolbar layouts and keyboard shortcuts so that you can apply your muscle memory without skipping a beat.

Standards Based Exchange

Physical Layout

GDSII, DXF, CIF, GERBER, RS-247, EMK, HOLES

Structural & 3D

IGES, SAT, VRML, GEOM, DXF, RAW/RAWIV (Voxel)

Process flow

PowerPoint (PPT), PNG, JPEG, RAW, RAWIV

Analysis & Mesh

UNV, PAT, CDB, SAT, NEU (Ansoft, Ansys, ABAQUS, Nastran, Simulia)

System & Circuit

Verilog, VHDL-AMS, PSPICE, HSPICE, SIMULINK (MEX), TOUCHSTONE

Result Files

ASCII, CVS, PLT (Tecplot), ODB (Simulia), AVI, RAW

IntelliSuite Design Flow (Overview)

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IntelliSuite v8.6 Brochure (Detailed Overview)

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Whitepaper N/MEMS Design Methodologies

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MEMS-ASIC integration modeling Print Quality: PDF (10.6 MB)

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IntelliSuite ships with a number of high quality application notes and examples to help you get started with ease. Whether you are designing a gyro or an electrophoretic channel, there is an app note that will get you off the starting block quickly.

Classic Tang Resonator

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Bill Tangs seminal resonator makes a great learning tool! Think of it as an introductory course in MEMS design.

Mode Matched Tuning Fork Gyro (M2-TFG)

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Design methodology for high performance gyros. Illustrates a typical design cycle from conception to electronics integration.

Surface Micromachined Pressure Sensor

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Illustrates the bottom up design flow

Piezoelectric Micropump (Fluid Structure Interaction)

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Demonstrates Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI) capabilities for design of a piezoelectrically driven pump

Orthotropic and Anisotropic Materials in Multiphysics

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Learn about how IntelliSuite handles anisotropic and orthotropic materials such as GaAs, Quartz and Silicon.

Sub Harmonic Excitation of MEMS

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Sub harmonic signals can excite a MEMS structure in non-intuitive ways. Learn how to model sub-harmonics using non-linear theory.

Fluid Damping Macromodel Extraction

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Illustrates and benchmarks macromodel extraction of fluid damping. Learn how to incorporate fluidic spring and damping effects in your models.

Capillary Zone Electrophoresis

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Learn how to model reaction dynamics coupled with electrophoretic flow

Electro-Osmotic Cross Injector

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Modeling the Classic Cross Injector in Microfluidics

Anisotropic Wet Etching

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Examples illustrating Anisotropic Etching of Silicon

IntelliSuite Brochure

MEMS Extraction and Verification

Hexpresso: Automated Hex Meshing

RECIPE: RIE/ICP Etch Simulation for MEMS

IntelliFAB: Process simulation and visualization

MEMS Anisotropic Etching

SYNPLE: MEMS System Simulation

3DBuilder: Bullet proof meshing for MEMS