Probes and Output

The output from MHARNESS® can be the currents and voltages at any location, on any conductor, within any branch, of the cable harness system. This includes pin voltages and termination voltages. Outputs can also include electric fields radiated from the cable system along with the automatically computed predetermined source waveforms of the previous section. The format of the output files can be either text or binary. A probe is available that specifies the creation of a POSTSCRIPT file that contains a drawing of the cross-sectional structure of any cable segment. There is also a skin depth probe that creates a file containing skin depth resistance information as a function of frequency. In addition, customized header information can be devised and written, as desired, to the output files.

The probe section of the input file is used to specify the MHARNESS output. There are six first level keywords associated with the PROBE section. These keywords are listed below:

The format of these keywords is discussed in the sections to follow in the order of appearance in the list above.