A parallel implementation of an evolutionary-based automatic tool for microwave circuit synthesis: Preliminary results
✍ Scribed by Salvatore Caorsi; Massimo Donelli; Andrea Massa; Mirco Raffetto
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 230 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0895-2477
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
In this paper a CAD tool for the automatic design of passive microwave components is described. It is based on a genetic algorithm optimizer and a three‐dimensional finite element simulator. The main feature of the proposed tool is its ability, achieved by means of the parallel virtual machine software package, to fully exploit any concurrent computational resource. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is preliminarily assessed by considering the synthesis of a rectangular waveguide power divider. Selected numerical results confirm the capabilities, but also the current limitations, of the presented methodology. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 35: 169–172, 2002; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.10547