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Transmission Line Design and Analysis
 Transmission
Line Software in Mathcad
1. Circuit Sage's tline.mcd.
2. transm.mcd: A variety of
transmission line routines,
by Dennis Layne.
3. Transmission line
tools from Signal Integrity
4. tline.mcd,
signal is propagated down three transmission lines of different permittivities.
5. Design of microstrip transmission lines using PCB laminates pcbtrans.mcd,
by John Van Nierop
6. broad_reference.mcd: Broadside
coupled stripline analysis by Scott E. Farleigh
7.
Available from mathcad.com: transm.mcd,
mstrip_width.mcd,
mstrip_loss.mcd,
mstrip_impedance.mcd,
by Peter Daborn.
8. Roger Norrods' tapered
transmission line impedance matching worksheet.
9. Keith White's Mathcad book on Electromagnetics.
Transmission Line Tools
1. Arbitrary Transmission Line
Calculator(atlc), a free, open-source UNIX/Linux software for the
analysis and synthesis of transmission lines of arbitrary cross
section by David Kirkby.
2. Eagleware's
TLINE tool,
I'm a big fan of Eagleware, but I'm not sure how much it costs. They also
have many other good tools. They also offer winLINE
for $195.
3. TX-Line,
Microwave office transmission line calculator
4. Rogers Corp Transmission Line Simulator
, An executable tline simulator(at the bottom of the page).
5. Nuhertz
, filter solutions, including transmission line based filters (4)
6. Transcalc
, stripline analysis
7. Stephan Weber's ELEKTA
has some stripline design capability, plus many other tools. $109
8. TRAVIS:
Artech House, Transmission Line Visualization Software by Robert Kaires, $450.
9. Dr. Bingo's RF
Network Designer, $49, has some transmission line analysis.
10. HP's AppCAD,
free routine for a variety of RF circuit design needs.
11. FNC-Elcad, a
multi-purpose circuit design tool with tline analysis. $39.95
12. Lineguage
free transmission line analysis from Zeland!
13. TRLINE:
A nice free tool from transmission line matching and filter design.
14. TRANSLIN,
by Paolo Delmastro. $249.
15. MULTLIN
and LINPAR,
by Djordjevic et. al. $299. For multiple-conductor transmission line
analysis.
16. TRAVIS
2.0, Transmission line visualization software by Robert
Kaires and Barton Hickman, $450. Travis
CE 2.0: $79.
17. ATLASS,
transmission line calculator, $990. demo-free.
18. Ezguide,
wave guide calculator, free.
19. WinLINE, NP-11, $99. Noble.
20. Transmission line excel spreadsheet.
Nice, Free. From spiderwebb.
Online Transmission Line Calculators
1. JavaScript
Microstrip Calculator, Zhi Chang's microstrip calculator in JavaScript.
2.
Rousslan
Goulouev's website
has excellent
transmission line filter design tool.
3. Florida State's: transmission
line calculators: two wire, stripline, and coaxial.
3. University of Missouri at Rolla, stripline calculator,
written in JavaScript.
5. TX-Line Transmission Line Calculator - Applied Wave Research
, A free professional executable transmission line design tool.
Looks good!
8. Transmission Line Effects on Bus
, Florida state's applet which graphically shows a wave launch onto a transmission line and it's transient.
Interesting but not very useful.
9. Stub
Transmission Line Matching, interesting graphical applet, but
not very useful.
10. Wheeler stripline calculator
, from Idea Consulting.
11. Differential
stripline calculator from Idea Consulting.
12. Hao Shi's coupled
microstrip and coplanar
waveguide and 3-strip
coplanar waveguide Applets.
13. Microstrip Calculator,
in JavaScript with a long listing of dielectric constants.
14. Nice
stripline calculator, downloadable
19. Stripline
Analysis: Stripline
Analysis (experimental)
22. Microstrip
Calculator: Synthesis and analysis.
24. AA3RL Transmission Line Calculator
, A Excel spreadsheet transmission line calculator.
26. Microstrip
Calculator from Rogers Corp (makers of PCB material).
27. Veribest's PCB
trace impedance calculator.
28. Trace
width calculator, from Brad Suppanz.
29. GBPPR's stripline
calculator.
30. MWI, A free DOS program by G. Robert Traut,
for calculating stripline characteristics.
31. HP's online tool showing wave
propagation on a transmission line. Cool bu not useful.
 Electromagnetic Simulation Software
1. Listing of EM Software.
2. EM Routines and
Codes, A good collection of RF software
3. UMR's listing of EM
software. A thorough listing. Their other pages are also good.
4. Nice listing of free EM software
on NASA website.
5. Agilent/EESof
offers Momentum, a planar electromagnetic simulator, and HFSS,
a three-dimensional electromagnetic simulation tool.
EEsof's EM Simulators
,
6. Ansoft
has a set of tools for various types of signal integrity and electromagnetic problems, including 3D simulation.
Ansoft's EM simulators
, $42,000 for HFSS.
7.
Ansys's EM Software.
8. Aplac's FDTD EM Simulator.
9.
Apsim's EM Simulators.
10. Arpeggio, Full-wave EM simulator (free)
11. CFD
Maxwell, from Maxwell Research Corp. New limited beta product is free.
12. EMPiCASSO from EMAG
Technologies.
13. EMSight
is a Microsoft Windows-based Method-of-Moments 3D electromagnetic simulator for circuit interconnect problems.
14. EMA3D
is a 3D FD-TD electromagnetic simulator for radiation and scattering problems.
15. EMPIRE, from IMST
16. Eagleware's
EMPOWER
.
17. EMPLAN,
A planar EM analysis tool by Kinayman and Aksun, $659.
18.
Faustcorp
's MEFiSTo 2D(free) and 3D EM Simulators.
19. FEMLAB for Matlab: Finite Element
Method.
20. IE3D
from Zeland Software is an integral equation solution for electromagnetic
simulation of circuit and antenna structures. $10k to $31k.
21. IFS Pro,
from Interactive Products. A good SPICE output from the simulator.
22. Layan, from
numberone systems, $450.
23.
LINMIC+/N
is a mostly electromagnetics-based Microwave and RF IC Design Suite from AC Microwave.
23. Magsoft, EM Simulator.
24. Applied Wave Research, Microwave Office.
25. CST's Microwave Studio.
26. Mician's Microwave
Wizard. Free demo available.
27. OEA's EM simulators
,
28. XFDTD from
Remcom
is a 3D FD-TD electromagnetic simulator for radiation and scattering problems.
29. Tera's Quickfield.
EM/Thermal/Stress Simulator.
A full-featured demo is available.
29. Integrated EM Simulation Software,
software for EM simulation.
30.
Radar FDTD
An enhanced version of ToyFDTD with PML boundary conditions.
31. SEMCAD has a
3D EM and thermal Solvers.
32. Sonnet
EM is a planar electromagnetic simulation tool. great for transmission lines, and it's free.
Sonnet EM simulator,
33.
ToyBoxFDTD
is an open source (GPL) 3D FD-TD electromagnetic simulator with PEC boundary conditions.
34. WIPL-D,
by Kolundzija et. al., $399.
35.
Zeland's
Fidelity
is a 3-D full wave electromagnetic simulation program for circuit and antenna applications.
 Tutorials and Information on Transmission Lines
1. EMC of Transmission Lines
: a thesis with some transmission line analysis. Not really for synthesis.(8)
2. Time
domain model of dispersive transmission line: Aplac.
3. Transmission lines and impedance matching (short tutorial)
4. Amanogawa:
Transmission Lines, Cool Website
, Very informative (1)
5. Transmission line scaling,
Signal Integrity.
6. Ultracad
, a good source of transmission line (3)
7. Analog devices transmission line matching, (5)
an online tool. Looks cools, but is totally useless.
8. Skin effect modeling in SPICE,
by Bidyut Sen. An good article on how to put skin effect
into simulations.
9. Metclad
transmission line reference.
10. Shielded
suspended microstrip mode: Aplac, Easy to implement microstrip
analysis equations.
11. Implementation
of single and couple microstrip lines: Aplac. Detailed
microstrip analysis equations. I am in the process of converting these equations to
Mathcad
12. Ernie Kim's Transmission
Line Notes, and Microstrip
notes.
13. Printed Circuit Boards Division Coupled Stripline Configuration,
Some simplified expressions.
14. Transient
effects on a transmission line at the educators corner.
15. Principles
of Transmission Line Design, a nice online book.
16.
Tranmission line termination article by Philips.
 Websites with Information on Transmission Lines
1. Turnkey: A mirror of
rfglobalnet's software listing
2. RF Avenue Transmission
Line Tutorials,
3. Newwave
Intruments Transmission Line Webpage, a great collection of links and books
on transmission lines.
4.
Chip center online tools,
a few tools and notes on tlines.
5. Transmission Lines, Cool
Website, Amanogawa
has some good tools and discussions on transmission lines.6.
6. Princeton website with a little information on mitered
bent transmission line.
7. Ludwig Reinhold's very good microwave
notes and m-files. A good substitute for Besser's RFI
course.
8. NEC
Research Index. Many papers on transmission lines.
Extremely useful.
9. Reviewing the basics
of transmission lines by Leo Maloratsky.
 Transmission Line Books
and Videos
1. RF
and Microwave Coupled-Line Circuits, Bahl, et al.
2. Multiconductor Transmission Line
Analysis, Frankel; 1977
3. Lossy Transmission
Lines, Gardiol; 1987
4.
Digital
Transmission Lines, Granzow, Oxford, 019511292
5. Microwave Transmission Line Impedance Data, Gunston, $54.
1884932576.
6. Microstrip Lines and
Slotlines, by Gupta et al, 1996
7. Electrical
Characteristics of Transmission Lines, Hillberg; 1979
8. Microstrip
Filters for RF/Microwave Applications, Hong, et al.
9. Stripline Circuit
Design, Howe; 1974
10. Transmission Lines and Wave Propagation, Magnusson, 0849302692, $100, CRC Press
11. Microwave
Transmission Line Filters, Malherbe
12. Microwave Transmission Lines and
Their Physical Realizations, A video course by March, $600.
13. Networks and Devices Using Planar Transmission Lines, Paolo, CRC Press, $150,
0849318351
14. Quick
Finite Element Method for Electromagnetic Waves, Pelosi
et al, 1998
15. Microstrip Circuit Analysis
, Schrader.
16. Transmission Line Transformers, Sevick.
17. Foundations of Microstrip Design, Steer et. al.
18. Nonuniform
Line Microstrip Directional Couplers and Filters, Sener Uysal, 1993
19. Transmission Line Design
Handbook, Wadell; 1991
20. Analysis
Methods for Electromagnetic Wave Problems,
Yamashita; 1990.
21. Rfcafe's list of tline books
.
PCB Suppliers
1. Dupont:
http://www.dupont.com/mcm/
2. Metlcad: Lots of information on PCB
laminate properties.
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