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Engineering & Scientific Software
Antenna, Electromagnetics & Transmission Line Simulators

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Antenna, EM & Transmission Line Simulators | Circuit Simulators | System Simulators

Schematic Capture, Layout, Block Diagram | Photonics Simulators | Everything Else

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4nec2 Antenna Simulator
The Netherlands

4nec2 is a completely free Nec2, Nec4 and windows based tool for creating, viewing, optimizing and checking 2D and 3D style antenna geometry structures and generate, display and/or compare near/far-field radiation patterns for both the starting and experienced antenna modeler.

When running frequency sweeps, linear or logarithmic style SWR, Gain, F/B-ratio and impedance line-charts are produced. With the included Optimizer and Sweeper one is able to optimize antenna- and/or other environment-variables for Gain, resonance, SWR, efficiency and/or F/B, F/R-ratio.

AC Microwave, GmbH
+49 241 8793022 / Germany

Microwave power amplifier modules (1.7-5.9 GHz), microwave power amplifiers (2.45GHz), microwave power generators (2.45 GHz), custom component, circuit design, & prototypinennas_electromagneticsg for MMIC, hybrid MIC, LTCC technologies, simulation support, consulting around microwave heating & performing measurements up to 26.5 GHz, LINMIC Interconnect LINMIC+/N Microwave & RF IC Design Suite.

Agilent Technologies
800-452-4844 / Santa Clara, CA

Test equipment, racks, cables, adapters, amplifiers, cables, RF switches, EEsof EDA products.

Andrew
708-349-5661 / Orland Park, IL

Base station, broadband, earth station, DCS/PCS, GSM, TV broadcast, land mobile, accessories, free planning software, coax, waveguide, Antenna System Planner, PSI Select Pressurization Planner.

Ansoft
412-261-3200 / Pittsburgh, PA

Ansoft Designer™ is the seamless solution for physics-based RF, high-speed, & communication design. By linking physical attributes to electrical performance, Ansoft Designer makes it possible to get it right the first time. With Ansoft’s Solver on Demand™ technology & seamless integration, the software eliminates design risk & uncertainty by providing engineers with the information necessary to make correct decisions during all stages of the design process.

Antenna Design Associates
413-548-9919 / Leverett, MA

PC and workstation software for the analysis and design of antennas and phased arrays. founded in 1990 by Dr. David M. Pozar, a well-known researcher and author in the areas of antennas and wireless communications. Smith Chart for WindowsPCAAD Personal Computer Aided Antenna Design, Specialized Microstrip Antenna Analysis Software Packages

APLAC Corporation (now AWR)
+358 9 540 450 00 / Espoo, Finland

APLAC Solutions was acquired by Applied Wave Research. AWR-APLAC is the developer of APLAC analog and RFIC circuit simulator. APLAC simulator is now integrated into AWR's Analog and Microwave office design tools.

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Applied Computational Sciences
Escondido, CA
Tel:  760-612-6988

 

Applied Computational Sciences (ACS) designs, develops and sells Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software tools for RF and microwave engineering applications.

 

ACS LINC2 Schematic Screen CaptureLINC2TM  - Standard & Pro, are linear circuit simulators that include a suite of design and synthesis tools seamlessly integrated into one program for the ultimate experience in the automated design of RF and microwave circuits.

 LINC2 Pro Features:

ACS LINC2 Smith Chart Screen Capture

      • Exact Circuit Synthesis

      • Accurate Simulation

      • Powerful Optimization

      • Statistical Yield Analysis

      • Large Component Library - More than
      30,000 Device Files

**All products include FREE technical support!**

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AWR
El Segundo, CA
Tel (310) 726-3000

 AWR is a leading supplier of high-frequency
 electronic design automation (EDA) products for
 the design of wireless telecommunications
 equipment, semiconductors, high-speed
 computers, networking systems, automotive
 mobility systems, & a variety of other products.

Free Trial Downloads Available

Products

 • Microwave Office® - the industry’s fastest
  growing microwave and RF design platform,
  revolutionizing the communications design
  world by providing users with a superior choice.

 • Analog Office® - the first complete IC design
  system in over ten years that is specifically
  architected and optimized from the ground up
  for next-generation analog and RFIC designs.

 • Visual System Simulator™ (VSS) - a
  comprehensive software suite for the design of
  complete, end-to-end communications systems.

 • Signal Integrity - the industry’s first cross-
  domain signal integrity (SI) solution specifically
  developed for designing and analyzing high-
  frequency, high-speed electronics circuits.

 • APLAC® - APLAC is a foundry-approved circuit
   simulation technology for highly nonlinear and
   complex designs.

 • Axiem - 3-D electromagnetic simulation

Bay Technology
831-688-8919 / Aptos, CA

IE3D EM simulation & optimization, TraceSim transmission line simulator.

Compact Software

Now Ansoft.

Comsol
781-273-3322 / Burlington, MA

Femlab software package for modeling & simulation of any physical process you can describe with partial differential equations.

Concerto EM Solver

Concerto is an advanced analysis package for RF and Microwave design. It includes a 3D Geometric Modeler that allows easy data import from CAD systems, as well as the facility to create and parameterize new models.

Computer Simulation Technology
781-416-2782 / Wellesley Hills, MA

CST Microwave Studio 3D electromagnetic simulator.

Clemson University Vehicular Electronics Laboratory

The Clemson Vehicular Electronics Laboratory (CVEL) collaborates with industrial sponsors to provide research and education services involving all aspects of automotive and aerospace vehicle electronics including electronic components, circuits, sensors, communications, power distribution and mechatronics with an emphasis on systems integration, electromagnetic compatibility and modeling.

Eagleware-Elanix  Purchased by Agilent
678-291-0995 / Norcross, GA

GENESYS suites: simulation, synthesis, and instrument interface products, advanced simulation 7 modeling: SPECTRASYS, HARBEC, EMPOWER/ML, etc, synthesis: advanced T/LINE, A/FILTER, EQUALIZE, FILTER, MATCH, M/FILTER, OSCILLATOR, S/FILTER, SIGNAL CONTROL, instrument interface: TESTLINK, SystemView by Elanix.

Efield AB
+46 8 410 03 510 / Stockholm, Sweden

Provides an integrated environment for computational electromagnetics containing a complete set of solution techniques in both time and frequency domain. Geometry import from all common CAD systems and a productive graphical user interface makes it feasible to compute and visualise accurate solutions to real world problems for example in antenna design and EMC problems.

Electric Field
976-11301769 / Mongolia

Very cool program where you place charges on the grid and it draws equipotential electric and magnetic field lines. Other features, too.

emGine Environment
+49-176-24030711 / München, Germany

The emGine Environment is a full-wave time-domain 3D electromagnetic simulation environment. It is used for the modeling, characterization and optimization of microwave circuits (planar, 3D), antennas, resonators, hollow waveguides, etc. The emGine Environment includes an open source graphical user interface - the emGine GUI - and a free EM simulator (for non-commercial purposes) in binary format - the tlmGine simulator - and is highly portable, running on Microsoft Windows, Linux/Unix and Mac OS X.

EM Software & Systems
27 21 880 1880 / South Africa

FEKO is a full wave, method of moments (MoM) based, computer code for the analysis of electromagnetic problems such as: EMC, shielding, coupling, antenna design, antenna placement analysis, microstrip antennas, & circuits, striplines, dielectric media, scattering analysis etc.

EMWonder
Norcross, GA

EMtoSPICE™ S-parameter to SPICE model coverter, generates SPICE macromodels (or subcircuits) using S-parameter data, allowing SPICE simluation of S-parameters in time & frequency domain, unprecedented accuracy over broadband frequencies.

EZNEC

Antenna software by W7EL.

Fast Field Solvers
514-849-8752

Lots of FREE EM field solver software, like FastHenry and FastCap.

Dr. Fritz Dellsperger
Berne Institute of Technology / Switzerland

Smith 2.00 - advanced Smith Chart software, interactive user input builds schematic by clicking in chart area, constant gain, noise, stability & Q circles.

Synthesis and Analysis of Planar Lines - coupled, suspended & inverted microstrip, stripline & coupled stripline, coplanar & grounded coplanar waveguide, coaxial line, twisted pair line, by Juerg Tschirren.

IM - calculates IM products from up to 50 tones, up to 5th order, by Juerg Tschirren.

FEKO
757-224-0548 / Hampton, VA

FEKO is a software suite for the analysis of a wide range of electromagnetic problems. Application include EMC analysis, antenna design, microstrip antennas and circuits, dielectric media, scattering analysis, etc.

Flomerics
866-799-6147 / Southborough, MA

Micro-Stripes is the most powerful electromagnetic simulation software for microwave, antenna design and installed antenna performance. Its 64-bit parallel-executing TLM technology enables you to solve complex electromagnetic problems beyond the scope of other EM analysis tools.

GNECView
814-867-3992 / State College, PA

OpenGL based, very fast, the application reads E/H fields & displays them, along with calculation of the Poynting vector when the E/H's are aligned, FREE from Bradley Flubacher.

Guided Wave Technology
Denmark

Waveguide EM Filter Analysis and Design - microwave online waveguide filter design using exact EM software tools, Filter Coupling Matrix Calculator.

Infolytica
514-849-8752 / Canada

Full Wave - generates full-wave solutions of arbitrary-shaped 3D high frequency structures, including animations of 3D electromagnetic fields, includes resonant modes, scattering parameters, & port solutions.

Integrated Engineering Software
204-632-5636 / Canada

Huge collection of EM simulators. SINGULA 3D electromagnetic analysis software.

Interactive Products Corp
919-932-3033 / Cary, NC

IPC focuses on the development of Electromagnetic and Signal Integrity Computer Aided Engineering tools that offer accurate and quick solutions. Our tools solve the field equations by use of the boundary element method. Our user interface is designed for speed allowing you to choose from Stack Up Templates, Pseudo Arbitrary Design, and Completely Arbitrary Design using your CAD tool DXF exports.

Kovac Software
+44 (0)1889 508094 / England

AutoTRAX schematic capture, simulation, layout, autorouting.

LC - Cray

LC is a Unix-based simulation tool for the analysis of the EM properties of electrical interconnects. The full 3-D circuit is modeled, so all interactions are automatically included in the solution. Circuit parameters such as inductance, capacitance, and impedance can be derived from the transient response, and frequency-domain results such as S-parameters can also be calculated. Far field radiation patterns can be obtained. Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FD-TD) technique used.

linSmith
 Argentina, So. America

A Smith Chart program for Linux!!! linSmith is a Smith Charting program, mainly designed for educational use. As such, there is an emphasis on capabilities that improve the 'showing the effect of'-style of operation. Lots of other resources, too. By John Coppens ON6JC/LW3HAZ

Lorentz Solutions
408-922-0765 / Milpitas, CA

Lorentz Solution is an EDA company delivering the industry's first IC-focused EM Design & Verification solution. The company’s product suite, PeakView™, provides a fully automatic 3D EM Synthesis and flexible EM Design Verification for users of the Cadence™ custom IC design and circuit simulation environments.

Where in the world is Max Froding?

MEM Research
+39 347 8279009 / Italy

EM3DS (Electromagnetic 3D Simulator) is a novel, full-featured, frequency-domain full-wave simulation tool tailored to efficiently accomplish the analysis of quasi-planar structures.

EM3DS (ElectroMagnetic 3D Solver), a novel, full-featured, frequency-domain full-wave simulation tool tailored to efficiently accomplish the analysis of quasi-planar structures – specifically planar structures over complex substrates, where the finite conductors' thickness and the dielectric discontinuities are accounted for with no compromise – thus, rendering EM3DS a full 3D tool.,  Download a completely free version, having some functional limitations, MEM Research also offers services in terms of design of Microwave devices (especially filters & mux) & consumer electronics.

MiCIAN
+49 (421) 168 993 51 / Germany

EM CAD µWave Wizard, waveguide network simulator.

Microelectronic Circuit Design Group
+30-1-772 1482 / Athens, Greece

SISP - Spiral Inductor Simulation.

MiG Microwave Innovation Group
+49 421 220 8299 / Germany

WASP-NET (WAveguide Synthesis Program) hybrid EM CAD solver, MoM/FE/FD, OpenGL visualization, DXF output.

Optotek
800-361-2911 / Canada

MMICAD Linear Simulator - an analysis & optimization program for both active & passive circuits.

PowerSmith

RF circuit simulator for impedance analysis, matching, S-parameters, noise, & stability circles, DOS compatible, old, but works, Intuitive & no mouse needed, VA3DIW, OK1RR.

QuickSmith

This is a very popular Smith Chart program by Nathan Iyer, of RF Micro Devices, Windows-based, FREE. Other programs also available like Cascade, PLLSim, and CoilSim.

Remcom
814-861-1299 / State College, PA

XFDTD - 3D full wave electromagnetic solver based on Finite Difference Time Domain, Wireless InSite - propagation prediction tool using ray-tracing models.

RTS Scientific
905-882-2599 / Toronto, Canada

EMPIRE XCcel™ for microwave engineers, features a new GUI, designed from the ground up for ease of operation and is very intuitive. The XCcel replaces previous software tools available from IMST and now offers an even faster speed which has been accelerated even more by a highly advanced exploitation of modern processor architecture, full package includes a parametric OPTIMIZER. The new XCcel is for microwave engineers involved in the design of antennas, waveguides, filters, resonators, interconnects etc., as well as dosimetric investigations of mobile phones, EMC of implants and other body modeling work.

Simulation Technology & Applied Research, Inc
262-240-0291 / Mequon, WI

Analyst is a full-featured, 2D/3D, finite-element, electromagnetic design package. It contains modules for doing driven frequency analysis, eigenmodes, statics, and optimization. All embedded solvers make efficient use of parallel, cluster, or networked computing resources to dramatically reduce computation time & to allow solution of much larger problems than is possible with other tools.

Sonnet Software
315-453-3096 / Liverpool, NY

Sonnet Suites - 3D planar high-frequency electromagnetic software, CST MICROWAVE STUDIO - 3D high frequency EM simulator, Sonnet Lite - free EM software.

SWAN-Soft
+39 075 585 3658 / Perugia, Italy

SWAN (Slotted Waveguide ANtennas) is a powerful CAD tool for the design and analysis of very large slotted waveguide arrays having a wide range of capabilities: fixed or scanning beam, very low side lobe patterns, shaped beams such as cosecant or flat top patterns, customizable waveguide dimensions, dielectric filling of the waveguides, many different feeding configurations, etc.

Tera Analysis Ltd
877-215-8688 / Denmark

QuickField electromagnetic simulator with plug-in modules for magnetics, heat transfer & stress analysis, Student Version FREE.

Vector Fields
630-851-1734 / Aurora, IL

OPERA-2d - two dimensional software package for modeling Cartesian & axi-symmetric electromagnetic field problems, OPERA-3d - three dimensional analysis environment including pre and post-processor
CONCERTO - fully three dimensional high frequency modeling package using the conformal finite difference time domain method, incorporates an advanced user interface & state of the art numerical algorithms, CONCERTO AS - provides two-dimensional electromagnetic simulation only, which is ideal for radially-symmetric RF components, and eliminates fundamental barriers that have held back the adoption of CAE in this sector: the very high cost of conventional 3D electromagnetic software, and the long simulation times involved.

Zeland Software, Inc
510-623-7162 / Fremont, CA

IE3D - MoM-based EM simulator, FIDELITY -  FDTD-based EM simulator, MDSPICE - mixed-domain SPICE simulator, COCAFIL - waveguide filter design suite, FilterSyn - planar/coaxial filter synthesis module for IE3DLibrary, LineGauge - transmission line design tool.

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