Altair FEKO 2022.3.0 with PDF Documentations

The software developer Altair is pleased to announce the availability of Feko 2022.3.0 with new features, corrections and improvements.

Feko 2022.3.0 release notes
Altair Feko 2022.3 is available with new features, corrections and improvements. It can be applied as an upgrade to an existing 2022.2 installation, or it can be installed without first installing Altair Feko 2022.2.

Highlights of the 2022.3 Release
The most notable extensions and improvements to Feko, newFASANT, WinProp and WRAP in the 2022.3 release.

Salient Features in Feko
- In previous versions of Feko, mesh connectivity between parts could only be achieved when the parts had a common interface with shared vertices (a continuous mesh). For most geometric changes, the whole model needed to be re meshed to maintain connectivity between parts. When making localized geometric changes in large models or models that include imported meshes (for example, generated using Altair HyperMesh or Altair SimLab), the requirement to re mesh all connected parts to maintain connectivity can be challenging.
In Feko 2022.3 for MoM and MoM/MLFMM simulations, a new domain connectivity option was added. By specifying Domain Connectivity for specific parts, the meshes of those parts will be treated as if “connected” in places where the borders of the meshes are close together even though the mesh vertices on those borders are not coincident. This means that parts that have not changed do not need to be re meshed.
A typical use case would be an antenna placement study, where an antenna (parameterised geometry) is placed on the roof of a large pre-generated car mesh (static mesh), see Figure 1.


- In addition to some performance improvements and bug-fixes, the Next-generation CADFEKO has been improved and extended to include various features that were available in CADFEKO [LEGACY]. A collection of some of these features is shown in Figure 2.


- Waveguide mesh ports can now be defined using mesh vertices. This option can be used when specifying a waveguide mesh port for FEM.
- The Feko Source Data Viewer now supports reduced .rei files generated by Altair PollEx, where data that will have little impact on radiated emissions calculations is excluded to reduce both .rei file and simulation times.
- 2D surface graphs in POSTFEKO were extended to support interactive zooming.


Salient Features in WinProp
- Object dynamics can now be imported from a .csv file for non-preprocessed indoor databases. Once the dynamics are imported, the time-variant parameters are greyed out, and the values are set from the file.


- The ASAM OpenDRIVE format (provides a road network description that is used to simulate and validate ADAS features) can now be converted to WinProp indoor format.


- Trajectories can now be imported from a .csv file. Measured results can be included to visualise and compare measured results against WinProp results by adding a column in the .csv file. The measured results will not show up in the result tree, but a result file will be placed in the results folder.
- The following extensions were made to the Shooting and Bouncing Rays (SBR) method:
. For projects that use an antenna pattern at the transmitter, the SBR method is accelerated by incorporating the antenna's gain in path loss estimation.
. For calculations involving scattering, the accuracy is improved, and the memory consumption is reduced.
- Noise barriers along roads or highways can now be included in urban databases by drawing polylines in WallMan to represent walls

Salient Features in WRAP
- For LTE communication systems, the following extensions were added:
. The reporting of key performance indicators such as RSRP, RSRQ and RSSI.
. For systems that employ multiple transmission modes, predict data rates and throughput at any receiver (mobile-station) location based on quantities like minimum required received power and minimum Signal-to-Noise-and-Interference Ratio.
. The effect of MIMO is included.
- The map viewer was extended to include population density.


For the full list of new and improved features, and fixed bugs please refer to the release notes located here



Feko is a powerful and comprehensive 3D simulation package intended for the analysis of a wide range of electromagnetic radiation and scattering problems. Applications include antenna design, antenna placement, microstrip antennas and circuits, dielectric media, scattering analysis, electromagnetic compatibility studies including cable harness modelling and many more.
WinProp is the most complete suite of tools in the domain of wireless propagation and radio network planning. With applications ranging from satellite to terrestrial, from rural via urban to indoor radio links, WinProp’s innovative wave propagation models combine accuracy with short computation times.
newFASANT complements Altair’s high frequency electromagnetic software tool (Altair Feko) for general 3D EM field calculations, including, among others, special design tools tailored for specific applications like complex radomes including FSS, automated design of reflectarrays and ultra-conformed reflector antennas, analysis of Doppler effects, ultrasound systems including automotive or complex RCS, and antenna placement problems. Advanced solver technologies like the MoM combined with the characteristic basis functions (CBFS), PO/GO/PTD, GTD/PO and MLFMM parallelised through MPI/OpenMP, being some of them especially efficient for the analysis of electrically very large problems.
WRAP is a comprehensive tool for electromagnetic propagation, antenna collocation and spectrum management. WRAP combines propagation analysis, often over large areas with many transmitters and receivers, with system analysis to include complex non-linear equipment properties.

Altair Feko Product Overview


Altair Feko is a comprehensive computational electromagnetics (CEM) software used widely in the telecommunications, automobile, aerospace and defense industries. Feko offers several frequency and time domain EM solvers under a single license.
Altair is a global technology company that provides software and cloud solutions in the areas of product development, high performance computing (HPC) and data analytics. Altair enables organizations across broad industry segments to compete more effectively in a connected world while creating a more sustainable future.

Product: Altair FEKO
Version: 2022.3.0 with PDF Documentations
Supported Architectures: x64
Website Home Page : www.altairhyperworks.com
Languages Supported: english
System Requirements: Windows *
Size: 3.9 Gb