Software
News and Events - Announcements
Press Release: To be released from August 1st, 2007.

Extended EMPIRE Support for North-American Customers
Kamp-Lintfort, Germany/Ottawa, Canada: This is to announce the authorization of Peter Frank from Petra Microwave Ltd. to provide first line technical support for all
customers in North America (US and Canada), while RTS Scientific, Inc. will be the sole sales partner for IMSTs EDA software tools for the RF & microwave industry,
especially for the EM simulator EMPIRE XCcel™.
Due to the growing number of EMPIRE XCcel™ users in the North American region, IMST introduces Petra Microwave as a partnering company for first line technical
support of EMPIRE for the RF and microwave industry.
"We are very excited to be partnering with IMST in supporting their EMPIRE software. EMPIRE is powerful and easy to use, and has been invaluable to our company as
a design tool. This software has allowed us to complete projects that could not have been done using the competitor's product," noted Peter Frank, president of Petra
Microwave Ltd.
Beginning August 1st, 2007 EMPIRE users will gain from the direct access to local support service capabilities by phone and e-mail.
This service is available to all customers having an existing support and maintenance agreement with IMST. Petra Microwave will also provide technical assistance to
potential customers interested in evaluating the software.
North American technical support: Peter Frank, Petra Microwave Ltd. phone: 1-613-286-5467, e-mail: empire.support.us@imst.com
North American sales contact: Max Zinger, RTS Scientific, Inc.,phone: 1-905- 882-2599, e-mail: rzinger579@on.aibn.com

IMST is thrilled to provide this new, additional service capabilities to EMPIRE customers in the North American region.
About EMPIRE XCcel™
This EM field solver - based on the FDTD (Finite-Difference Time Domain) method - always aims to be the fastest and the most efficient design tool for all kind of design
and analysis of RF and microwave devices (antennas, resonators,, etc.), circuits and components. It is designed as an effective engineering tool made 'by engineers for
engineers', that is both accurate and flexible, able to tackle today's design complexities as well. Today, EMPIRE XCcel is the most accurate and efficient tool which
delivers results in record short time. <http://www.empire.de>
About Petra Microwave Ltd.
Petra Microwave provides engineering design and support services for North American customers. Peter Frank, founder of Petra Microwave Ltd., is a practical and
innovative problem solver who has over 12-years of electromagnetic design experience. <http://www.petramicrowave.com/>
About RTS Scientific, Inc.
RTS Scientific is a distribution company RF and scientific instrumentation for testing and engineering deign. Since 1993 the company expanded its business into
software for instrumentation control, data management and especially CAD/CAE for LF, RF and microwaves. <http://www.rtsscientic-software.ca>
About IMST GmbH
IMST, Germany, is a customer-oriented, leading-edge service provider for research and development in microelectronics and wireless radio communications. From its
inception in 1992, the goal of IMST has been to bring innovation to the EDA-industry by developing advanced electromagnetic design tools. <http://www.imst.com>
Contact
Johannes Borkes, IMST GmbH, Carl-Friedrich-Gauß Str. 2, 47475 Kamp-Lintfort
Tel. +49 2842 981 200, Fax +49 2842 981 199, borkes@imst.de
www.imst.com


IMST GmbH
Press Release