On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:16 AM, alex arsenovic <aia8v@virginia.edu> wrote:
all, thanks for the feedback. i have begun the move of mwavepy into a scikit called `scikit-rf`, with an import path of `skrf`, and short-hand import convention of `rf`. this seems to roughly follow the conventions of scikit-learn and scikit-image, and i think the names work well. i am learning git it the process, and am starting to see why everyone enjoys it so much.
here are the relevant links
git page https://github.com/scikit-rf/scikit-rf home page https://github.com/scikit-rf/scikit-rf/wiki docs http://packages.python.org/scikit-rf/#
Looks good, I'll try it out when I get the chance.
@Ralf, i am unsure which program you are referring to (hard to tell from that page), but i think i understand generally what you want, perhaps a look at this page may be helpful.
The first entry (Smith-Chart Diagram) under "Particular Interests".
http://packages.python.org/scikit-rf/examples/matching_single_stub.html if you want a graphical-aided solution this can probably be done with skrf as well, if you are still interested, you can send me an email with more details and ill take hack at it. to respond to your request within a larger perspective, i have been thinking about making some specific application programs out of skrf, such as automated matching functions and the like. although skrf itself is meant to provide simple building blocks, adding usable application examples may be useful.
Automated matching, with options to make a trade-off between bandwidth and number of components for example, would be quite useful I think. Graphical aids are more complicated probably, but at least having functions to compute stability, VSWR, etc. for a given network and then plot the contours in a Smith chart wouldn't be hard I think.
Cheers, Ralf
thanks
alex
On 01/21/2012 07:11 AM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:32 AM, alex arsenovic <aia8v@virginia.edu>wrote:
hello, my name is alex arsenovic. i am the author of the python module mwavepy, which is a package for RF/microwave engineering.
homepage: http://code.google.com/p/mwavepy/ docs: http://packages.python.org/mwavepy/#
it is my understanding that scipy doesnt currently have the functionality provided by mwavepy, and it seems as though it would be a valuable module to have, similar to the rf-toolbox in matlab.
i was entertaining the idea of making a sci-kit for mwavepy, and was curious about the scipy-dev community's opinion on this. does a module like this belong as a sci-kit? if so, i have numerous questions as to what are the next steps.
Hi Alex, making your project a scikit seems like a good idea. I actually tried to use mwavepy about two years ago for some basic matching network design. Back then I ran into a number of issues and in the end gave up, but it looks like your project came a long way since then. Whether or not you make it a scikit, definitely move to github though! That would have made the difference for me in submitting a few patches instead of just hacking around the first issues I encountered.
In the end I went back to using the free Dellsperger program ( http://fritz.dellsperger.net/) plus LTSpice. The former has a nice GUI and some plotting options like stability and VSWR contours that are quite handy, so if you're taking feature requests consider this one:)
Cheers, Ralf
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