Distinction

Although there are many commercial EM simulation codes available on the market, FEKO has distinguished itself by utilising several techniques which are inherently more efficient than some other commonly used techniques.  Whereas a large number of EM problems (e.g. smaller antennas) can be solved by any of a number of techniques (e.g. MoM, FDTD or FEM) with practically the same efficiency, it is the solution of electrically large problems (e.g. antenna placement) or complex problems (e.g. cables in automobiles)  that require the simulation techniques found in FEKO.

Industries

FEKO is widely used in the following industries: Automotive, Aerospace, Naval, Mobile Phone, Intergrated Wireless Devices, Communication.

Applications 

Design and analysis of: Antennas, Antenna Placement, EMC (shielding, coupling.), RF components, Bioelectromagnetic analysis, Radomes, Scattering (e.g. RCS).

Technology

FEKO is based on the accurate Method of Moments with special extensions allowing the code to be used to solve a large range of problems (e.g. thin dielectric sheets, dielectrically coated wires, planar multilayered media, dielectric volumes).

A hybridisation of the accurate Method of Moments (MoM) technique with the asymptotic high frequency techniques, Physical Optics (PO) and Uniform Theory of Diffraction (UTD), brought FEKO recognition, over the last 10 years, as one of the leading commercial software for the analysis of electrically large problems (e.g. antenna placement).

In 2004 FEKO was the first commercial code to offer the MLFMM technique which reduces the memory requirements by up to orders of magnitude without compromising on the accuracy.  This technology has been refined in FEKO over the last 2 years.

In 2005 the hybrid (Finite Element) FEM/MoM technique was released. Not only is the FEM efficient for problems containing both metallic and dielectric parts but it has the added advantage that it is ideal for highly inhomogeneous dielectric bodies, e.g. the different tissues found in a human head. The FEM/MoM hybrid technique is particularly suitable for the analysis of problems where the MoM is applied to the antenna and the FEM to the dielectric region, with no need to discretise the free-space region in between (e.g. human in front of a mobile phone base station antenna)