Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Vector Fields | Subject: Concerto and Quickwave
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 25 January 2005
Virtual prototyping for RF and microwave
devices
A new software package extends the concept of "virtual prototyping" to RF and microwave devices.
A new software package from Vector Fields extends the concept of "virtual prototyping" to RF and microwave devices The package allows designers to optimise parameters at which earlier microwave engineers could only guess and await for field trials to illuminate
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Not only does this later software suite provide engineers with the ability to establish fundamentals of a new project before building prototypes, it also allows assessment of the "what if" scenario.
Radical designs can be created and tested at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods.
In some applications, this saving of time and effort can be dramatic with one software user working with Vector Field's packages managing a reduction in time spent from a full person-year per prototype using traditional methods, to one designer analysing 60 designs in a single month.
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