Vector Fields will exhibit at RF and Hyper from 21st to 23rd March 2006 in Paris.
Vector Fields will exhibit at RF and Hyper from 21st to 23rd March 2006 in Paris. Since joining Cobham in 2005, the company has been further strengthened by absorbing the Electromagnetics Division of Culham Electromagnetics and Lightning. The company is a supplier of high accuracy robust packaged software with full supporting services through a world wide network.

Chris Riley, a director of Vector Fields will be demonstrating the Concerto version 5 software for RF and microwave design.

For a wide range of applications, including microwave components, patch, horn and wire antennas, microstrip, radar cross-section, antenna coupling and microwave heating, Concerto has established itself as a powerful tool in the designer’s armoury.

The package has been shown to out-perform many of its competitors in both speed and functionality.

The Quickwave simulator using ’state-of-the-art’ FDTD methods has many advantages.

Independent tests against other industry standard time domain software has shown performance that exceeds 10 times in speed, without compromising accuracy.

Memory usage is also very efficient and the software can analyse models with at least twice as many finite difference cells on a standard PC The unique ‘freeze’ feature in Quickwave allows the user to temporarily halt a large simulation, use the PC for other tasks, and then resume the analysis at the freeze point.

This, of course, also allows the user to switch from one Concerto model to another, as business demands take on new priorities Concerto also contains the Clasp method of moments analysis - giving users the opportunity to apply the most appropriate simulation technique for their particular application.

The modular construction of Concerto also brings a further benefit.

While a Quickwave or Clasp simulation is in progress, the user is able to access the geometric modeller or the interactive postprocessor to work on other models, allowing computational resource to be used for maximum effect.

Vector Fields will also be using RF and Hyper Conference to announce Concerto version 6, scheduled for Spring 2006.

The company will also be announcing the new, entry level Concerto Essential package - containing the full functionality of the Professional version but restricted in model size.

This is the ideal introduction to RF and microwave design for new users and also provides experienced engineers the opportunity to update from their existing software for a reasonable cost.