Currently, work is being done in studying how to translate layout data into data for simulation.
Dimensional analysis is a future area of exploration for the translation of data.
Since the simulations require units from both the electrical and mechanical domains, tedious conversions were done by hand to convert data into common reference units. For this work, this was acceptable, but for a systems approach, this step must be automated. At this point the capabilities of various simulators are being explored. The cantilever beam behaves electrically like a parallel plate capacitor in which the distance between the two plates is allowed to vary. It is also possible to convert this mechanical domain description into an equivalent electrical domain description.