1. A parallel implementation of an evolutionary-based automatic tool for microwave circuit synthesis: Preliminary results
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Mirco Raffetto, Massimo Donelli, Andrea Massa, Salvatore Caorsi, Association of Computer Electronics and Electrical Engineers (ACEEE), Institute of Doctors Engineers and Scientists, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (ELEDIA Research Group), University of Trento [Trento], Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes (L2S), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-CentraleSupélec-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Exploit ,Computer science ,020208 electrical & electronic engineering ,020206 networking & telecommunications ,02 engineering and technology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,computer.software_genre ,Computational resource ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,Finite element method ,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials ,[SPI.ELEC]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Electromagnetism ,Feature (computer vision) ,Virtual machine ,Genetic algorithm ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Electronic engineering ,Power dividers and directional couplers ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,[SPI.SIGNAL]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Signal and Image processing ,computer ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Microwave - Abstract
In this paper a CAD tool for the automatic design of passive microwave components is described. It is based on a genetic algorithm optimizer and a three-dimensional finite element simulator. The main feature of the proposed tool is its ability, achieved by means of the parallel virtual machine software package, to fully exploit any concurrent computational resource. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is preliminarily assessed by considering the synthesis of a rectangular waveguide power divider. Selected numerical results confirm the capabilities, but also the current limitations, of the presented methodology. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 35: 169–172, 2002; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.10547
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- 2002