Learning with Tutorials

Getting Started

Tutorials for Sonnet are found in three of the user's manuals.  The contents of these manuals are detailed below. If you do not have access to a hardcopy of the user manuals or did not receive a hardcopy of the manuals (Sonnet Lite), you may access the manuals in PDF format through the Sonnet task bar. Click on the Manuals button on the Sonnet task bar, then click on the appropriate button to open the desired manual.

Beginning Tutorials

If you are new to Sonnet, the best place to start is with the Getting Started manual. This manual, in addition to Windows installation instructions and an overview of important concepts in Sonnet, contains three tutorials.

The   Open Tutorial first tutorial takes you for a quick tour through most of the programs in the Sonnet Suite to provide you with an overall feel for the interfaces and how the modules work together.

The second tutorial concentrates on inputting a circuit geometry in the project editor, as well as highlighting some basic design issues such as the enclosure box and cell size that are important when analyzing circuits with Sonnet.

The third tutorial acquaints the user with the palette of standard geometries in the project editor, how to add vias to a circuit to conduct between planar levels and an in depth look at choosing the most efficient cell size.

Feature Tutorials

These tutorials are intended to provide you with supplemental tutorials on important features in the analysis engine and on how to use other Sonnet modules. There are presently five tutorials available in the Sonnet User's Guide and Translators manual, as detailed below.

For parameterization and optimization see Chapter 10, ''Parameter Sweep and Optimization Tutorial,'' in the User's Guide.

For circuit subdivision see Chapter 15, ''Circuit Subdivision Tutorial,'' in the User's Guide.

For conformal mesh see Chapter 12, ''Conformal Mesh Tutorial,'' in the User's Guide.

For the GDSII and DXF translators, see Chapter 2, ''GDSII and DXF Translator Tutorial,'' in the Translators manual.

For the Agilent Interface, see Chapter 7, ''Agilent Interface Tutorial'' in the Translators manual.

For the far field viewer, see Chapter 22, ''A Two-Dimensional Far Field Viewer Tutorial,'' in the User's Guide.