Antenna Magus 2017 Professional New Features and Extensions Antenna Magus 64-bit The 2017.0 release of Antenna Magus will be exclusively available in native 64-bit architecture. CST Licensing For licensed users of CST STUDIO SUITE® it is now possible to license Antenna Magus using the CST License Manager. This can simplify the license administration considerably and users who are interested in this feature should please contact their Support channels to find our more. Arrays A number of extensions have been made to the Array Tools. Most notably - the relative spacing and distance between array elements may now also be specified in physical distances (e.g. meters or inches) where previously only wavelength values could be used. Workflow The Specification based workflow, introduced in version 2016, remains the recommended workflow. In order to keep improving on this feature a few changes have been implemented: Keyword changes / additions in Find Mode are now kept, even when temporarily navigating away from Find Mode. The Smart Design information popup no longer shows automatically when a Reference Design is updated. New Settings have been added to allow the Quick Start page and Automatic Performance Estimation to be activated/deactivated by the user. The Automatic Estimated Performance will now be disabled by default, but can be re-enabled in the Settings dialogue. Performance Various performance improvements have been made to Antenna Magus, impacting specifically on Find Mode and responsiveness when switching between Designs and Prototypes and also loading of states from older versions of Antenna Magus. In addition, the Performance Estimation of many antennas have been accelerated and additional Designs and Tweaking options added. New Antennas 13 new antenna have been added to Antenna Magus since the Version 2016 release – many of them in response to specific requests from our users. All of these antennas are described in more detail in the 2016 update newsletters or on the Antenna Magus website. Horn Antennas A number of specialised new horn antennas were added, including the Smooth Spline Profiled Pyramidal Horn, which aims to improve aperture efficiency without an increase in size when compared to a standard gain horn. The 4 Waveguide-fed Dual Polarised Pyramidal Horn Antenna aims to achieve dual orthogonal polarisation, while being relatively simple and inexpensive to manufacture. The main feature of the Waveguide-fed pyramidal horn array is that it achieves a lower side lobe level than a conventional horn antenna using a shorter overall length. The most recent horn addition - a TEM Horn will be discussed in more detail: