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This movie shows how to add your own antennas in Antenna Magus.
What happened before Antenna Magus offered content management?
Thousands of years ago information was stored on scrolls
and years later in filing cabinets.
Today various tools exist to manage information
like Picasa for photos,
iTunes for music,
and SharePoint for documents.
But these tools would never work for storing antenna information
Antenna information is different.
A single design can contain various types of information
like pictures,
graphs,
model files,
design equations,
and various types of documents.
Dusty store rooms are filled
with undocumented physical prototypes
along with inaccessible piles of paperwork
or badly categorised disks and hard drives.
Some people prefer to store knowledge inside their heads!
But this makes sharing
almost impossible.
Engineers have years of antenna experience
stored in various ways
Instead of reinventing the wheel every time,
this valuable information should be stored.
But how?
Sharing and storing information like this ...
is the Old Way!
Antenna Magus is the New Way!
Users can now easily add their own antennas to the existing Antenna Magus database
or import an antenna from a colleague like I’m doing now.
Let’s have a look at this circularly polarised stacked patch
which my colleague created.
I can edit this antenna;
I will find a picture
and a short summary of the antenna’s performance and more detail about the antenna
which were added using the text editor inside Antenna Magus.
He also attached various reference files
a published IEEE paper,
some Microsoft documents,
a Matlab file and a photo of the antenna
with descriptive keywords to help me find the antenna when I need it.
He also added design parameters like the design frequency of 1.5 GHz,
a ten [mm] disc diameter,
sketches and design guidelines with hand written notes and equations.
He uploaded a Microwave Studio and FEKO model.
The parameters inside these simulation models are linked with specific design parameters.
I can now redesign this antenna
at a different frequency
and export new simulation models.
He added S11 and S21 graphs
I recently measured this antenna and am adding the gain pattern
which I can later share with him.
Now let’s design this antenna
at a new frequency
Antenna Magus calculates new parameters
and the measured data are scaled by frequency.
I can now export new FEKO and Microwave Studio simulation models.
These are same models that were added by my colleague
with new model parameter values.
Note the new disc diameter
has been scale from ten to five millimeters.
I can also compare my antenna with other existing antennas in the database
to make sure that I’ve chosen the best element
for my design.
Finally I want to export the updated version of my antenna ...
with the added pattern measurement ...
so that I can share it with my friend.
This new feature has forever changed the way antenna information should be managed.
It is the new improved way designed especially for antenna engineers.
Let Antenna Magus Helps you to store accumulated antenna knowledge
in a logical and familiar way...
to be reused
or simply shared amongst colleagues and friends.