FEKO and WinProp Student Edition 2018 – Limitations

FEKO Student Edition Limitations

Supported Platform: Windows 7 and 10

Model Elements

Number of wires in CADFEKO: 100

Number of faces in CADFEKO: 200

Number of mesh wire segments: 2 500

Number of mesh triangles: 25 000

Number of tetrahedral volume elements: 250 000

Number of voxel elements (FDTD): 500 000

Solution Specification

Near-field observation points per request: 10 000

Far-field observation directions per request: 20 000

Number of frequency values: 20

Solution Metrics

Main memory that can be allocated by FEKO kernel: 1 GByte

Number of processes for parallel FEKO version: 4

Total run-time (wall-clock time) of FEKO kernel: 20 min

Number of adaptive frequency sampling points: 101

Number of simultaneously active excitations: 20

Number of optimisation variables (degrees of freedom): 3

Number of optimisation steps (iterations): 50

Note: The FEKO Student Edition does not support geometry import and export filters. It will however allow the export of Parasolid geometry.

WinProp Student Edition Limitations

Indoor

Number of objects in database smaller than 501.

Number of transmitting antennas <=4

Urban

Number of objects in database smaller than 2001

Number of transmitting antennas <= 12

Combined Indoor / Urban

Number of objects in database smaller than 2001 (same as urban limit).

Number of transmitting antennas <= 4

Rural / Suburban

Area smaller than 200 km2

Number of buildings smaller than 501.

Number of transmitting antennas <=12

CoMan

Number of objects in database smaller than 501

Number of sensors/antennas <= 20

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