HFSS15: Lumped Ports

Lumped ports support single mode excitations when S-parameters have to be extracted at internal locations of a model. It can also be used to represent a terminal of a passive component to be subsequently optimized in a circuit simulator using S-matrix description of the model.

For lumped ports all edges that do not touch metal are treated as perfect H boundaries. From this definition the resulting field distribution on the lumped port geometry is solved with the wave port solver. For a rectangular lumped port this results in electric fields orientated parallel to these perfect H sides. See figures below. The physical geometry of the rectangular lumped port carries current with the corresponding H fields resulting in parasitic inductance. For these same rectangular lumped ports the parasitic inductance can be calibrated out of the s-parameter response with the deembedding option for lumped ports.