SWAN™ Licensing

There are five predefined configurations, that typically meet any user requirement. Custom configurations are also available upon request.

	SWAN™ Basic	SWAN™ Basic IE	SWAN™ Advanced	SWAN™ Pro	SWAN™ Pro+
SLOT MODEL   Processing of full-wave simulations and extraction of the slot model (external full-wave simulator is needed).	√	√	√	√	√
DESIGN   Design of beam scanning resonant and travelling wave dielectric-filled slotted waveguides arrays.	√	√	√	√	√
ANALYSIS   Analysis of beam scanning resonant dielectric-filled slotted waveguides arrays.	√	√	√	√	√
INTERNAL ENGINE   Integrated electromagnetic full-wave analysis of radiating slots (No external full-wave simulator needed).		√	√	√	√
Travelling Wave   Design of travelling wave slotted waveguide arrays.			√	√	√
Sub-sections   Waveguides can be subdivided in smaller sections with arbitrary number of slots.			√	√	√
Cross-slot WG Feeding Network   Synthesis of centered-inclined slot coupler waveguide feeding network. Folded shorts automatic design is also included.			√	√	√
Mutual coupling acceleration   Optimized mutual coupling computation that allows up to 80% CPU time reduction with the same accuracy.			√	√	√
Input Transition & Feeding Network   External feeding network and input transitions can be accounted in the analysis (Touchstone format).			√	√	√
Complex Slot Excitation (shaped beam synthesis)   Complex slot excitations, synthesis of arbitrary shaped patterns (footprint, flat top, cosec squared, etc.).				√	√
SIW Slotted Waveguide   Design and analysis of arrays of slots on Substrate Integrated Waveguides.				√	√
Short Circuit Compensation   Automatic compensation of short circuit septum thickness in multi-section radiating waveguides.				√	√
T-junction Based BFNs   Monopulse comparator and T-junction-based BFNs models are available in the analysis.				√	√
Monte Carlo Analysis   Monte Carlo analysis on several geometrical parameters, such as slot offset, length, width, thickness, waveguide width and height.				√	√
Flared Slotted Waveguide Arrays   The presence of metallic flares adjacent to the slotted waveguide array can be accounted in the design and analysis.					√
Ridge Waveguide Technology Analysis and Design of slotted single-ridge waveguide arrays. The final layout can be exported in DXF format.					√
Ridge Gap Waveguide Technology Analysis and Design of slotted ridge gap waveguide arrays. The final layout can be exported in DXF format.					√
H-plane T-junction TE20 Mode Compensation The two adjacent coupling slots are automatically adjusted to compensate for higher-order modes from the input transition.					√