News
Launch of FEKO Student Competition 2012
Announcement of the FEKO Student Competition for 2012. (February 2012)
FEKO Quarterly - December 2011
This edition reports back on the results of the recently concluded FEKO student competition, sharing some of the interesting EM work that is being carried out at universities across the globe. Users are reminded of the useful Ctrl-Shift key combination and are invited to attend the international FEKO User’s Meeting which will be held to coincide with ACES 2012 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.
FEKO Student Competition Results for 2011
Announcement of the FEKO Student Competition results for 2011.
FEKO Quarterly - September 2011
FEKO Suite 6.1 was released on 18 July 2011. In this issue, we will take a look at some of the new features and introduce the new branch of EMSS that has been established in China.
Release of FEKO Suite 6.1: Feature Overview
This release is packed with new features and comes with a completely revised version of CADFEKO. (July 2011)
Press Release: FEKO Suite 6.1
Official Press Release for FEKO Suite 6.1
FEKO Quarterly - June 2011
In this second edition of 2011, a review is given of the papers that were submitted to the FEKO session at the recently held ACES conference. We will take a look at some of the features to be released with FEKO Suite 6.1 and see what is new in Antenna Magus 3.0 (released on the 20th of April). A reminder of the FEKO student competition is included for all our academic users.
FEKO Quarterly - March 2011
In this first edition of 2011, the focus falls on antenna analysis using the Finite Element Method (FEM). The design of a conformal microstrip patch array with Antenna Magus and FEKO is showcased. Details on past and future events, such as the FEKO student competition, user meetings and exhibitions are included in this newsletter.
FEKO Quarterly - December 2010
This edition reports back on the results of the recently completed FEKO student competition and considers selected new features in FEKO Suite 6.0 in more detail. Details of the 2011 International FEKO User Meeting are also presented.
FEKO Student Competition Results for 2010
Announcement of the FEKO Student Competition results for 2010.
Interface between FEKO and FEST3D
FEST3D is a highly efficient tool for waveguide analysis. The two-way interface between FEKO and FEST3D allows mode data and scattering matrices to be exchanged for further analysis. (September 2010)
Release of FEKO Suite 6.0: Feature Overview
This major release is packed with new features and comes with a completely revised version of POSTFEKO. (September 2010)
FEKO Quarterly - September 2010
This edition focuses on the release of FEKO Suite 6.0. This major release is packed with new features and comes with a completely revised version of POSTFEKO. Other news items include an exciting special offer as well as the appointment of a new FEKO and Antenna Magus reseller in South America.
Representative for South America Appointed
EMSS is pleased to announce that All Optic Designs has been appointed as sales representative for FEKO and Antenna Magus in South America. (September 2010)
Special Discount on Parallel Licence Upgrades
In order to motivate and encourage customers to use FEKO’s parallel processing capabilities, a special discount for parallel upgrades is available for a limited time only. (August 2010)
FEKO Product Manager Interviewed by Microwave Journal
FEKO's product manager, Dr. Ulrich Jakobus, was recently interviewed by Microwave Journal on his insights into the business of computational electromagnetics simulation software. (July 2010)
FEKO Quarterly - June 2010
This edition focuses on the FEKO session at the ACES 2010 conference. Other news items include the release of Antenna Magus version 2.0 and the availability of GPU acceleration in the upcoming release of FEKO.
FEKO on SGI Cyclone Cloud Computer
FEKO is now available on the large scale parallel processing SGI Cyclone cloud computing system on a pay-per-use basis. (April 2010)
FEKO Quarterly - March 2010
Highlights include information on how to model composite materials (e.g. carbon fibre) with FEKO, the release of plane wave excitation for ray-launching GO for the analysis of scattering problems and a commercial initiative to provide FEKO customers with pay-per-use cluster computing facilities.
CrunchYard: Pay-per-use Simulation on a Large Cluster Computer
Crunchyard.com is a web based service that provides simulation resources for engineering software, such as FEKO. (February 2010)
Become a FEKO Follower on Twitter
FEKO news, events and information snippets are promoted via our Twitter feed (emss_feko). (January 2010)
Local Resellers Appointed in UK, Spain and Portugal
Agreements have been signed with Aubrey Consulting (UK) and Dr. Jordi Soler Castany (Spain & Portugal) to act as local resellers for FEKO. (January 2010)
GPU Acceleration of Electromagnetic Solutions in FEKO
Complex solution algorithms as available in FEKO (e.g. MoM, PO, UTD, FEM, or MLFMM) were historically not well suited to acceleration with GPUs (graphical processing units). These worked best for FDTD or similar, where the same operation is repeated over and over again. However, recent advances in software technology have made it possible to accelerate run-time intensive solution phases in FEKO. (December 2009)
FEKO Quarterly - December 2009
Review of the results of the FEKO Student Competition 2009, analysis of Split Ring Resonators (SRR) with planar Green's functions, Antenna Magus release 1.4.0 and much more.
FEKO Student Competition Results for 2009
Announcement of the FEKO Student Competition results for 2009.
FEKO Works with Windows Server 2008 R2
FEKO Suite 5.5 has been verified by VeriTest®, a service of Lionbridge, and meets the criteria for the “Works With Windows Server 2008 R2” program. (September 2009)
FEKO Quarterly - September 2009
Review of the release of FEKO 5.5 and the most prominent new features in this release. These features include the new Windscreen antenna modelling method, FEM modal ports, automatic update mechanisms, etc. The release of Antenna Magus for antenna design is also highlighted.
FEKO is Compatible with Windows 7
FEKO passed Microsoft designed tests to be certified as Windows 7 compatible. (September 2009)
Release of FEKO Suite 5.5
Major highlights include: Windscreen antenna analysis, generalisation of GO and PBC, FEM modal ports, improvements to CADFEKO geometry creation and manipulation processes. (July 2009)
CADFEKO Features in FEKO Suite 5.5
A short introduction to a selection of new CADFEKO usability features that were released in FEKO Suite 5.5. (July 2009)
FEKO Quarterly - June 2009
Release of Antenna Magus for antenna design, review of the papers presented at the FEKO Session at ACES'09, appointment of Japanese support engineer, forthcoming feature in FEKO Suite 5.5.
Distributor appointed for Singapore
Frontier Integrated Technology have been appointed to sell and support FEKO in Singapore. (April 2009)
Rigorous Windscreen Antenna Modelling in FEKO 5.5 (release scheduled August 2009)
FEKO Suite 5.5 will have a new method to solve windscreen antennas faster and more accurately than previously. (March 2009)
FEKO Quarterly - March 2009
This issue features an article on the periodic boundary condition (PBC) feature in FEKO. Also featured is a list of tips to reduce the computational cost of simulations.
FEKO Suite 5.4 Passes Microsoft's “Platform Test for ISV Solutions"
FEKO Suite 5.4 has been tested and meets the criteria for the Microsoft “Platform Test for ISV Solutions". (February 2009)
FEKO Quarterly - December 2008
Review of the winners' entries to the 2008 FEKO student competition. Tips and tricks for working with complex CAD models in CADFEKO.
FEKO Session at ACES 2009 Call for Papers
A FEKO modelling session will be hosted at the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society (ACES) conference in 2009. (September 2008)
FEKO Quarterly - September 2008
Review of the release of FEKO 5.4 and the most prominent new features in this release. New partnerships with Altair and ESI Group are announced and new FEKO application engineers are introduced.
Release of FEKO Suite 5.4
Major highlights include: Periodic boundary conditions, parallelisation of FEM and GO, GUI support for symmetry and waveguide excitations, *.DXF import, several CAD export options, farming out (distribution) of optimisation iterations, new licencing scheme to exploit multi-core processors. (July 2008)
FEKO Quarterly - June 2008
Review of the papers presented at the FEKO Session at ACES'08, forthcoming feature in FEKO Suite 5.4, new multi-core CPU licencing policy.
EMSS joins Altair HyperWorks Partner Solutions Program
FEKO joins a range of tools provided by Altair's on-demand software solution partners. (July 2008)
Multi-core CPU licencing policy changes
The licencing policy for parallel processing is changed with FEKO Suite 5.4 to count CPUs, rather than cores. A sequential licence can now simulate in parallel on all cores of a single CPU. A parallel licence can simulate in parallel on all the cores of the number of CPUs that it is valid for. (June 2008)
FEKO Quarterly - March 2008
A feature article on how to choose the appropriate simulation technique for any given problem, CADFEKO feature highlight (points import, batch meshing), Japanese FEKO user meeting, new distributor in India.
FEKO Quarterly - December 2007
A feature article on RFID, thumb rules for simulation resource estimation, German FEKO users meeting, winner FEKO student competition 2007.
FEKO Certified Intel Cluster Ready
FEKO works closely with Intel to achieve the best possible performance from cluster computing environments. In this endeavour, Intel recently certified FEKO as "Intel Cluster Ready". (September 2007)
FEKO Quarterly - September 2007
Review of the release of FEKO 5.3 and the most prominent new features in this release.
FEKO Suite 5.3 release
Major highlights include: Re-design and re-implementation of optimisation process, inclusion of non-radiating network analysis, Geometrical Optics (GO) for the analysis of electrically large dielectric bodies. (July 2007)
FEKO Quarterly - June 2007
Review of the papers presented at the FEKO Session at ACES'07.
FEKO Distributor Conference 2007
A conference was held for FEKO distributors to discuss the future of our product.
FEKO Quarterly - March 2007
FEM-MoM case study, CADFEKO version control.
FEKO Quarterly - December 2006
Simple cable modelling in FEKO, the ideal receiving antenna, single precision storage, student competition winner 2006, German FEKO users meeting 2006.
FEKO Quarterly - September 2006
Solution control in CADFEKO for existing users, mesh refinement for more accurate results, excitation in the FEM region.
FEKO Suite 5.2 release
Major highlights include: Complete problem setup and solution control in CADFEKO, Re-meshing, Excitation in the FEM region, Coaxial cable analysis. (August 2006)
FEKO Quarterly - June 2006
Looking back at ACES '06 FEKO session and the papers that were presented there.
FEKO Quarterly - March 2006
S-parameter calculation in FEKO.
FEKO Quarterly - December 2005
The CADFEKO workplane.
FEKO Suite 5.1 release
FEKO Suite 5.1 is released with the following major highlights include parallel MLFMM, waveguide port excitation, CAD import filters. (December 2005)
Distribution and Support: Taiwan
An agreement has been signed in terms of which FEKO will be distributed and supported by Taiwan Auto-Design Corporation.Ltd in Taiwan. CADMEN has been in the EDA business since the early 90's and their experience in simulation technology will prove to be very usefull to all the FEKO customers in Taiwan. (December 2005)
FEKO Quarterly - September 2005
Hybridized MoM/FEM.
FEKO Suite 5.0 Released
Suite 5.0 is released with a completely new Graphical User Interface. CADFEKO (interactive geometry defiinition and meshing), EDITFEKO (solution control) and POSTFEKO (data post-processing) are all available on Windows and Linux. (July 2005)
FEKO Quarterly - June 2005
Looking back at IEEE/ACES '05 FEKO session and the papers that were presented there.
Fininte Element Method hybridised with MoM (FEM/MoM) released.
The FEM is introduced within a MoM/FEM hybrid framework, complementing the existing hybrid methods in FEKO. (July 2005)
FEKO Distributors Conference
The FEKO Distributors Conference is hosted at the offices of EM Software & Systems-SA (Pty) Ltd, Stellenbosch, South Africa. (May 2005)
FEKO Quarterly - March 2005
Modeling of dielectric materials in FEKO. SEP, VEP, special Green's functions, thin dielectric sheet approximation, dielectric coating, dielectric bodies with PO.
FEKO Quarterly - December 2004
SAR computation and extraction, mesh refinement, FEKO on EM64T.
FEKO on EM64T
FEKO is made available on the new EM64T technology from Intel. The main advantage of this technology is that it supports both 32-bit and 64-bit applications. A 32-bit application has an inherent 2 GByte memory limitation. When using 64-bit technology the FEKO kernel does not suffer from this restriction, allowing the in-core solution of problems with more unknowns. (December 2004)
FEKO Quarterly - September 2004
Optimisation features and guidelines, EMC application focus, tips and tricks.
FEKO Quarterly - June 2004
MLFMM for electrically large structures, geometric simplification, tips and tricks.
First commercial release of Multi-Level Fast Multipole Method (MLFMM)
FEKO, introduces the Multi-Level Fast Multipole Method (MLFMM) to the market through Suite 4.2. Although the MLFMM has been researched at several research institutions for many years, FEKO is the first commercial code to bring it to the market for general 3D structures. The MLFMM is an efficient method of calculating the interaction between structures that are electrically far apart, retaining the accuracy of the method of moments, but enabling the analysis of significantly larger problems because much less memory is required. Applications include analysis of electrically large antennas, e.g. reflectors and antenna placement on large platforms, e.g. ships, automobiles and aircraft. (June 2004)
Distribution and Support: South Korea
An agreement has been signed with MOASOFT Corporation in terms of which FEKO will be distributed and supported by MOASOFT in South Korea. MOASOFT Corporation is well known and respected in the field of EMC simulation and related technologies. The company was established in 1996 in order to support the growing demand for Total Solutions, Reliability Analysis/Consulting, Mathematical Analysis, Statistical Analysis, High-Frequency Design, PCB Artwork, various EDA CAD tools and EMC in the South Korean market. (March 2004)
FEKO released for Intel (64-bit Itanium)
FEKO released for Intel (64-bit Itanium), available on Windows, Linux, HP-UX. Supports parallel processing on Linux and HP-UX. Using the powerful Itanium processors, FEKO is relieved of the memory restrictions normally associated with 32-bit systems. (December 2003)
Award for outstanding innovation
In recognition of outstanding innovation, a certificate is awarded by the Department of Trade and Industry, to EM Software & Systems (Pty) Ltd for the Advanced FEKO Code Development Project. The project was done through the Support Program for Industrial Innovation (SPII), and EMSS were selected as a finalist from a field of 76 entries. (October 2002)
