Antenna Magus is a tool created to help accelerate the antenna design and modelling process. Its huge database of over 250 antennas can be explored to choose the optimal topology, which can be designed to meet the system criteria and exported to seamlessly integrate with your design workflow. Validated antenna models can be exported to CST MICROWAVE STUDIO from a huge antenna database which means that the engineer can get to the customisation phase of an antenna design quickly and reliably.
v5.0 [Jul 23, 2014]
1. Smart Design
“Design at the click of a button, using the information you have” is the essence of Smart Design. The multi-step design process used in earlier versions of Antenna Magus has been simplified down to just one click.
While it is still possible for the user to specify all design objectives, Smart Design caters for empty or incomplete objective sets (A). Antenna Magus uses all objectives which have been specified to intelligently predict suitable input values for unspecified objectives required for design. The suggested values determined by Antenna Magus may subsequently be adjusted by the user to refine the design.
In order to make Smart Design even more powerful, objectives are grouped according to type. For each of these groupings, a type-specific calculator (B) is provided. The calculators allow the user to convert different representations of each data grouping into the required input objective(s) without having to perform conversions outside of Antenna Magus. Smart Design allows the user to specify what he knows and confidently rely on Antenna Magus to do the rest by simply clicking the Design button (C).
2. Chart Tracer Tool with value extraction
The Chart Tracer Tool has been expanded with the addition of quick representative value extraction capabilities. Once a trace has been captured and the X and Y axis types specified, the tool automatically calculates relevant performance parameters.
In this way, useful values e.g. bandwidth, beamwidth, minimum, maximum etc. can be determined quickly from plots or images and used in the Specifications Library, for Design or elsewhere.
3. Specification Library
The Specification Library may be used to store various design specifications in a structured format. These Specifications may subsequently be used in Find Mode (to help identify feasible antennas) as well as in Design Mode (to populate the Design Objectives of antennas in the Collection). A number of pre-defined specifications are included as part of the library. These pre-defined Specifications may be used as-is or expanded and refined by the user.
Each Specification contains Values representing the performance requirements of the targeted design, as well as Keywords describing the required antenna. Specifications may be defined and refined using a number of tools provided in the Specification Editor interface. These tools include the Antenna Magus Keyword dictionary, the Conversion calculators (also available in the Design Mode) and the advanced Chart Tracer tool (described in the previous section).
4. General improvements
Many improvements have been made to the Antenna Magus workspace and workflow to make antenna design and learning easier.
Create a floor plan for your home and start adding walls and textures
Review 2D and 3D designs without using the application they were created in
