Remcom - Breakthroughs in Electromagnetic Simulation
Remcom Inc. was established in 1994 to develop and supply software for electromagnetic analysis. During the subsequent 17 years Remcom has grown in size and status, and correspondingly in capabilities. Remcom currently supports five major product lines: XFdtd, Wireless InSite, XGtd, VariPose, and Rotman Lens Designer (RLD). Wireless InSite, XGtd, VariPose and RLD all resulted from successful SBIR Phase II projects. Remcom also supports a Government Services Division (GSD) which provides theoretical and applied research support for the Department of Defense in addition to contributing technology to Remcom’s commercial products. The flagship of the Remcom product line is the XFdtd full wave 3-D electromagnetic solver based on the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. XFdtd applications include antenna design, microwave circuits, scattering calculations, electromagnetic compatibility, photonic devices, and biological effects of electromagnetic fields. These capabilities have established large customer bases in the wireless communication, biomedical, government/defense, and academic research industries to name a few. Remcom has also recently introduced the XStream add-on to XFdtd which leverages cutting edge GPU acceleration technology. Utilizing NVIDIA’s CUDA architecture, XStream allows FDTD simulations to be run at speeds up to 30 times faster than the latest 64-bit CPUs. Remcom launched the Wireless InSite radio propagation prediction software nearly eight years ago. This software is intended for customers who require fast and accurate predictions of radio propagation in urban and indoor environments. Wireless InSite is being used to design communication systems at Los Angeles International Airport and at Kennedy Space Center, and SBIR Tibbetts Award Nomination Remcom Inc. Page 2 of 6 is used for DoD and intelligence applications by the Joint Spectrum Center. The SBIR project that led to Wireless InSite received a 2001 Army SBIR II Quality Award. Based on Wireless InSite, Remcom has developed a general SBR/UTD high frequency solver called XGtd® which was released for sale in 2004. XGtd combines GTD, UTD, and Surface Ray techniques to include all important diffraction mechanisms present in high frequency analysis of devices in the vicinity of complicated objects. The software is aimed toward the analysis of antennas on vehicles or aircraft, but is also suitable for anechoic chamber simulations. Remcom’s fourth commercial product is VariPose, which allows FDTD meshes of the human body to be posed in realistic positions. VariPose is in use by several organizations conducting research in active radio detection of humans (holding weapon, hands up) through walls, and is also being utilized to position bodies in automobiles, aircraft, and MRI coils for FDTD calculations of SAR from electromagnetic radiation. Remcom’s latest commercial product is the Rotman Lens Designer which the Army currently is using for the design, synthesis, and analysis of Rotman lens antennas for multifunctional electromagnetic systems. It is based on Geometrical Optics combined with the classical Rotman Lens design equations. It is intended for rapid development and analysis of Rotman Lenses given several physical and electrical input parameters. RLD generates the proper lens contours, transmission line geometry, absorptive port geometry, provides an approximate analysis of performance, and generates geometry files which and be input into XFdtd for further analysis.
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James Harvey • about 13 years ago
The above box is incorrect. The award is not for James Harvey.
It is for Christopher Penney and Scott Langdon