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News Release from: Vector Fields | Subject: Concerto
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 30 July 2003
Software orchestrates microwave
modelling
Vector Fields has upgraded its Concerto software for three-dimensional analysis and design of microwave components such as antennas, waveguides, microstrips and microwave heating etc.
Vector Fields has upgraded its Concerto software for three-dimensional analysis and design of microwave components such as antennas, waveguides, microstrips and microwave heating etc The improvements particularly relate to the user interface where the Concerto-modeller allows complex graphics to be built up from combining simple geometric shapes
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 Nov 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Building on the powerful finite-difference time-domain method which uses conformal meshing, measured results have shown Concerto to accurately predict component parameters quickly, reducing overall design and test times.
Conformal meshing fits more precisely to curved surfaces, enabling more accurate final analyses.
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An optimiser and a module for modelling high Q systems is also included, making Concerto overall one of the more user friendly systems available.
Patch antennas can be efficiently modelled by using infinitely thin metal layers.
Special techniques take into account the field singularities near metal corners, improving the accuracy for these applications.
Concerto gives accurate simulations of waveguides and waveguide systems rapidly, cutting design times by negating the need for multiple models and extensive trials.
It can be used to find resonant frequencies of cavities and lossy loads.
For each resonant mode the Q-factors can be computed and the modal shape interrogated.
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