Smith Chart Project

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Smith Chart Project

• Team That Doesnt Exist
• Katherine Ishida
• Jennifer Liem
• Roxanne Yee

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Professionals

• Dr. Dobry
• For programming expertise
• Dr. Iskander
• For electromagnetic expertise

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Overview of Presentation

• Brief Project Overview
• Detailed Description of Features
• Block Diagram
• Solver Module
• Schedule

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Project Overview Original DOS Application
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Project OverviewOriginal Application Layout
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Project OverviewDesired New Layout
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What is a Transmission Line?

• Power Lines
• A medium which directs electrical power or EM
  waves
• Antennas inefficiently direct low frequency
  radiation
• Traverse Electric Magnetic Mode (TEM)
• Zero Cutoff Frequency

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What is a Smith Chart?

• Non-graphical analysis requires
• Conversions between complex impedance
  reflection coefficients
• Graphical Solution
• Easy conversion

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What is GUI?

• Graphical User Interface
• Advantages
• Point and Click
• Menus
• Icons and Buttons
• User Friendly

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What Cross-Platform?

• Allows a program to run on different systems
• Windows XP
• Mac OS X
• Linux

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What is Qt?

• Qt is a multiplatform C GUI toolkit
• Developed by TrollTech
• Creates programswith graphical interface
• Qt is cute
• C

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Block Diagram
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Schedule
Date Dec/Jan 8-Feb 22-Feb 7-Mar 21-Mar 28-Mar 11-Apr 18-Apr 25-Apr 8-May

Research

Design              
Impedance  
Complex  
ReflectCoeff  
Polar  
Voltage  
Container Iterator    
QtDisplay w/o Solving    
QtDisplay w/Solving      

Build/Test          
Impedance    
Complex    
ReflectCoeff    
Polar    
Voltage    
Container Iterator    
QtDisplay w/o Solving      
QtDisplay w/Solving      

Presentations
Proposal
Preliminary Design  
Critical Design  
Final