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Stellenbosch, South Africa -- EM Software announced that version 5.2 of its FEKO software suite is now available. The latest evolution of the FEKO suite offers the extension of CADFEKO in Suite 5.2, to include model control.

The entire EM problem can now be defined in CADFEKO. Not only is CADFEKO used to define the geometry but also the solution settings (e.g. including medium properties, coatings / losses, the model unit, sources, loads and calculation requests (near-fields, radiation pattern etc.)) CADFEKO can also archive different versions of the model as it is developed. This is useful to retrieve prior models. EDITFEKO is now only required for advanced solution control.

FEKO 5.2 also facilitates kernel extensions including transmission line modelling with built-in support for simple transmission line (TL) modelling so that the currents and voltages induced at the cable terminals, due to an external source, can be calculated directly. Several pre-defined shielded coaxial cable types, of which the transfer impedance is known, are readily available in FEKO (e.g. RG-58). User defined cable types are also supported. Support, according the guidelines as provided in IEEE standard C95.3-2002, for SAR calculation when parts of the SAR cube lies outside of the tissue region are also provided. FEKO also allows users to select between single or double precision with single precision the memory requirement up to 50% less. The new default is single precision. The FEKO kernel has built in checks which will advise the user when to switch to double precision.

Parallel versions of FEKO for Linux on the IA32, EM64T, AMD64, and IA64 platforms are now also available in connection with Intel MPI. Intel MPI supports interconnects such as Myrinet or Infiniband, but also the traditional Ethernet (and GigabitEthernet). Likewise, performance improvements on several systems have been made using updated math libraries from Intel, AMD, and HP. Memory efficiency improvements for parallel MLFMM have been made. In particular the memory requirement per process for parallel MLFMM runs has been reduced.

SOURCE: EM Software & Systems - S.A. (Pty) Ltd.