PCAAD 5.0 is the newest version of the most popular general purpose antenna modeling software.
PCAAD 5.0 is a Windows-compatible antenna analysis, modeling, and design software package. It contains more than 40 separate routines treating wire antennas, aperture antennas, microstrip antennas, arrays, and transmission lines and waveguides. These routines are integrated into a menu-driven, user-friendly system allowing you to quickly evaluate impedance and patterns for a wide variety of antenna types. Some of the new features in Version 5.0 include the following:

• 3-D color pattern plots
• Impedance matching with Smith chart
• Analysis of circular planar arrays
• V-dipole antenna analysis
• Wire loop antenna analysis
• Log periodic dipole array analysis
• More general wire antenna geometries
• Ability to copy graphs to Windows clipboard
• Improved error checking
• Movable labels on pattern and Smith plots
• Improved plot resizing
• Color settings can be saved
• All wire geometries can be viewed in 3-D
• Plotting of E/H or E-theta/E-phi patterns
• Improvements to user interface
• Antenna Short Course included on CD

PCAAD’s antenna analysis and design capabilities are listed below . . .

1. Array Antennas
2. Aperture Antennas
3. Wire Antennas
4. Transmission
5. Microstrip Antennas
6. Lines Plotting
7. Other

PCAAD 5.0 is intended for use by engineers, students, and researchers who need quick solutions to common antenna design and analysis problems. If your work involves antennas,you will find PCAAD 5.0 to be invaluable.