PCAAD 5.0 is the newest version of the most popular general purpose antenna modeling software.
PCAAD 5.0 is a Windows-compatible antenna analysis, modeling, and design software package. It contains more than 40 separate routines treating wire antennas, aperture antennas, microstrip antennas, arrays, and transmission lines and waveguides. These routines are integrated into a menu-driven, user-friendly system allowing you to quickly evaluate impedance and patterns for a wide variety of antenna types. Some of the new features in Version 5.0 include the following:
3-D color pattern plots
Impedance matching with Smith chart
Analysis of circular planar arrays
V-dipole antenna analysis
Wire loop antenna analysis
Log periodic dipole array analysis
More general wire antenna geometries
Ability to copy graphs to Windows clipboard
Improved error checking
Movable labels on pattern and Smith plots
Improved plot resizing
Color settings can be saved
All wire geometries can be viewed in 3-D
Plotting of E/H or E-theta/E-phi patterns
Improvements to user interface
Antenna Short Course included on CD
PCAAD’s antenna analysis and design capabilities are listed below . . .
| Array Antennas | Wire Antennas | Microstrip Antennas |
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Uniform linear array patterns |
Dipole antenna analysis | Rectangular probe-fed patch analysis |
| Linear subarray patterns | RCS of wire dipole | Rectangular line-fed patch analysis |
| Uniform rectangular array patterns | V-dipole antenna analysis | Rectangular proximity-fed patch analysis |
| Uniform circular array patterns | Loop antenna analysis | Rectangular aperture coupled patch analysis |
| Arbitrary planar array patterns | Yagi array analysis | Circular probe-fed patch analysis |
| Infinite printed dipole array analysis | Finite dipole array analysis | |
| Grating lobe diagram |
Log-periodic dipole array design |
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| Linear array pattern synthesis | Log-periodic dipole array analysis | |
| General wire antenna analysis |
| Aperture Antennas | Transmission Lines | Plotting |
| Line source patterns | Microstrip line analysis and design | Polar pattern plot |
| E-plane sectoral horn patterns | Covered microstrip line analysis | Rectangular pattern plot |
| H-plane sectoral horn patterns | Stripline analysis and design |
3-D pattern plot |
| Pyramidal horn patterns | Coaxial line analysis | Smith chart plot |
| Corrugated pyramidal horn patterns | Rectangular waveguide analysis | VSWR/Return Loss plot |
| Conical horn patterns | Circular waveguide analysis | Other |
| Corrugated conical horn patterns | Surface waves analysis | Copy current graph to clipboard |
| Parabolic reflector (approximate) | Print current Window contents | |
| Parabolic reflector (patterns) | Set plot colors | |
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Edit file |
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| Online help for PCAAD 5.0 |
PCAAD 5.0 is intended for use by engineers, students, and researchers who need quick solutions to common antenna design and analysis problems. If your work involves antennas, you will find PCAAD 5.0 to be invaluable. Here is a screen shot of PCAAD 5.0 being used to plot the 3-D pattern of a circular horn antenna. You can also view the Help file for PCAAD 5.0 for more details on its capabilities. Some commonly asked questions about the capabilities of PCAAD 5.0 are answered in the FAQs.
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Contact information . . .
Antenna Design Associates, Inc.
55 Teawaddle Hill Road
Leverett, MA 01054
Phone/Fax: 413-548-9919
