EMC Plus and Charge Plus 2025 R2

This page contains quick start information for EMC Plus and Charge Plus. These products are available exclusively through Ansys, Inc. We have a PDF guide to download at this link.
The products have major releases every six months. The major release installation download of the products is available from the Ansys Customer Portal. Both Ansys EMC Plus and Ansys Charge Plus install from the same executable. They are also available to download below on this page.

2025 R2 Windows Installer
Below, you can download the installer for the service pack of EMC Plus and Charge Plus. The 2025 R2 version can be installed alongside older versions.
Download 2025 R2: EMC Plus and Charge Plus 2025 R2
Check which version of EMC Plus or Charge Plus is installed
Check which version you have installed by navigating to the main Discovery settings menu, navigating to Add-Ins, and looking under “Description”

2025 R2 Linux Installer
There is a solver-only (no graphical interface) version of EMC Plus and Charge Plus only available at the download link below. The FEM and FDTD solvers each have their executable and dependencies compiled and packaged for Linux distributions. The Linux installer is no longer available as part of the Windows installer download link. The installer is available below with support for additional older NVIDIA GPUs and support for older Linux OS distributions.
Download 2025 R2 Linux: EMC_PLUS_CHARGE_PLUS_LINUX_ANSYSv25.2.0.tar.gz
In the above installer, you will find both Linux FDTD versions for multi-GPU or CPU machines and the Linux FEM version compatible with CPU machines only.
The Linux Installation Guide is available here: LinuxInstallationGuide.pdf.
Ansys Support for EMC Plus and Charge Plus
Check with the Ansys Support Coordinator (ASC) at your company to identify who provides support for your location. Most likely it will be provided by Ansys directly. Regional contact options are listed here.
If supported via Ansys directly, submit a support request via the Ansys Customer Portal: support.ansys.com. If supported by an Ansys Channel Partner contact your channel partner directly.
Useful Tips: When inquiring about support, have your Ansys customer number ready in advance (learn how to retrieve your customer number here). Many useful training and instruction resources are available via the Knowledge Resource Search, found on the home page of the Ansys Customer Portal or via the Ansys Resource Center.
Tutorials and Documentation
Tutorials are available by clicking on the (?) menu in the “Other” section of the ribbon, next to “Settings”. Additional tutorials that have been recently developed and are not yet in the help tutorials are available for download below.
Additional unpublished demos are available at this link.
User Manual is available at www.docs.emadevops.com
Latest API Documentation
We provide documentation with each release but maintain the latest up to date version of documentation on our website here.
2025 R2 Major Release Notes:

Simulation Tree User Experience Improvements
Materials workflow update from 25R1
Mesh rendering optimizations
Fluid / PIC refactor and simulation accelerations with reduced memory overhead
Parallelized file writing for multi-node HPC simulations in TD-FEM
New pre-conditioner of TD-FEM
FDTD H-Field Normalization Refactor FDTD Meshing Improvements
EMA3D Connect Integration
Frequency Dependent Tool – Loosened fit parameters
ESD validations in TD-FEM
Smoothing kernel for energy conserving schemes in PIC – Plasma Stability
New FDTD probes for breakdown region analysis
Raytracing and Radhard bulk detector assignments
FDTD Antenna Staircase Current Probe
Parametric Sweeps
KBL Import Updates
Additional dscripts – centerline extraction and deconfliction tools (C:\Program iles\EMA\2025R2\share\scripts)