Introducing the AN-SOF Engine: Power, Speed, and Flexibility for Antenna Simulation

At Golden Engineering, engineering is our key differentiator. We develop software tools to empower your antenna innovations, combining deep expertise in both software development and antenna engineering.

With the release of AN-SOF PRO 10, we’re excited to introduce the AN-SOF Engine – a standalone console application that can be integrated with other software tools.

The AN-SOF Engine delivers three major advancements:

1. Solve Larger Problems:

Run independently from AN-SOF PRO, with limits only by your system’s RAM. This removes the 10-square-wavelength restriction for modeling solid metallic surfaces, enabling the simulation of electrically larger aperture and reflector antennas, such as horns and parabolic dishes.

2. 3x Faster Performance:

Experience significantly faster simulations compared to the standard engine in AN-SOF PRO – without compromising accuracy. The AN-SOF Engine retains the high precision of AN-SOF’s exclusive Conformal Method of Moments, ensuring reliable results even at increased speeds.

3. Optimization Flexibility:

After decades of evolution, there are now many well-established optimization methods available, including AI-powered tools. The AN-SOF Engine is designed for integration, allowing you to connect it with external software to build your own optimizers and sweepers. To help you get started, we provide a collection of free script-based tools that call the Engine iteratively, giving you the flexibility to experiment and innovate.

We’ve started with Scilab—a free, open-source alternative to Matlab—as our preferred scripting platform due to its versatility. Scripts for Octave and other languages will be available soon.

The AN-SOF Engine is available exclusively to Platinum plan users.

• If you’re an existing Platinum customer, you can request an activation key by contacting our tech support team at info@antennasimulator.com.

• If you’re interested in upgrading to the Platinum plan, feel free to contact us.

• Instructions for downloading and activating the Engine are available in the AN-SOF Engine User Guide.

Explore the resources below to find optimizers, sweepers, and other tools:

• Nelder-Mead Optimization for Antenna Design Using the AN-SOF Engine and Scilab

• Evolving Better Antennas: A Genetic Algorithm Optimizer Using AN-SOF and Scilab

• Building Effective Cost Functions for Antenna Optimization: Weighting, Normalization, and Trade-offs

• Element Spacing Simulation Script for Yagi-Uda Antennas

• Automating 2-Element Quad Array Design: Scripting and Bulk Processing in AN-SOF

Happy antenna simulating! 🚀

Tony Golden