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Over the last seven years, microwave electromagnetics has transitioned from a purely academic research topic into a critical element of applied microwave design. The reasons for this transition are the availability of inexpensive and powerful computing resources and the extreme expense (in time and money) of repeated re-designs of microwave circuits, especially GaAs Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMIC’s). This paper reviews the important aspects of using currently available software in applied microwave design. Special emphasis is given to the analysis speed versus accuracy trade-off and to the selection of appropriate electromagnetic tools for a given problem. Although a variety of techniques are mentioned, this paper concentrates on commercially available electromagnetic software from Sonnet, a company founded by the author.
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Rautio, J.C. (1997). Electromagnetic Analysis for Microwave Applications. In: Campbell, T.G., Nicolaides, R.A., Salas, M.D. (eds) Computational Electromagnetics and Its Applications. ICASE/LaRC Interdisciplinary Series in Science and Engineering, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5584-7_4
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