Antenna Integration Tool Upgraded for Advanced IoT Devices
Adding features, capabilities, and AI modeling options, Taoglas' Antenna Integrator tool now offers greater design flexibility and collaboration features for engineers developing next-generation connected devices. Updates for the tool, part of the company’s AntennaXpert suite, leverage artificial intelligence as the models learn, adapt, and improve from ongoing real-life use cases.
The latest Antenna Integrator update provides nine additional PCB shape templates, including circle, arc, triangle, pentagon, hexagon, L-shape, U-shape, and stepped, as well as custom user-defined geometries. As a result, developers can model antenna placement on realistic board layouts, with the ability to add rectangular and cylindrical metallic blocks to represent large components such as batteries or displays that affect antenna performance.
Other features include new export options (3D STEP, PDF, DXF, and JPG) to simplify collaboration between electrical and mechanical design teams, as well as three new antennas (NLA.01, DLA.01, and PCS.62) to expand the tool’s library and design capabilities. The update is in addition to enhancements introduced earlier this year, including increased ultrawideband (UWB) support and expanded performance data.
Antenna Integrator enables design teams to model real-world actual layouts, account for surrounding components, and pick the right products for their design, helping achieve optimal performance from the start as well as accelerating development.
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Alix Paultre
Editor-at-Large, Microwaves & RF
Alix is Editor-at-Large for Microwaves & RF.
An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the U.S. military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications, most recently as Editor-in-Chief of Power Systems Design.
Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.