Antenna Modeling Software

A user can select from a number of built-in antenna models, design a MIMO antenna using the MIMO array builder, or import antenna patterns generated from measurements or full-wave antenna-design tools such as Remcom’s XFdtd. Antennas with an associated waveform are required for both transmitters and receivers. The direction of the main beam and the rotation about the main beam can be specified, as can a noise figure, reflection efficiency factor, and a cable loss factor. In the antennas properties window, the gain pattern can be viewed using a specified waveform in vertical, horizontal, left-hand circular and right-hand circular polarizations as well as the total gain.

MIMO

Wireless InSite MIMO allows users to import complex antenna definitions or build arrays using a built-in array builder, supporting 5G Massive MIMO, 6G Giga-MIMO, and the latest technologies for WiFi networks. Wireless InSite supports fully three-dimensional array positions, orientations, and polarizations, supporting the most complex designs while applying ray-tracing optimizations that minimize the additional computation and retain full accuracy between each antenna element pair at the base station and UE. For highest fidelity, MIMO antenna patterns may be imported from measurements or generated by high-fidelity array simulations from a full-wave solver, such as Remcom’s XFdtd, including not just the antenna patterns, but also the element positions, codebooks, and multi-port S-parameters to capture the effects of mutual coupling.

Import Measured or Simulated Antenna Patterns

Wireless InSite can import antenna pattern data from measurements, full-wave simulations from software such as Remcom’s XFdtd, or other data sources. Supported formats include Remcom’s UAN files, which support fully three-dimensional magnitudes, phases and polarizations, as well as Odyssey and MSI Planet. It can also import fully defined data sets that include patterns for multiple frequencies, as well as the MIMO antenna positioning and mutual coupling S-parameter definitions, as described above.