AdCoCom Concorde GmbH
+49 5063 907 100 / Germany

In-Building Coverage Planning Tool (IBCPT) is designed to facilitate the planning and realization of GSM/UMTS in-building coverage projects. The tool reduces your planning time due to automatic calculation processes, completeness of the part library. Two planning methods are implemented: schematic planning, floor plan planning. Both parts work together & allows the planner parallel working.

Agilent Technologies
800-452-4844 / Santa Clara, CA

Test equipment, racks, cables, adapters, amplifiers, cables, RF switches, EEsof EDA products.

Amplifonix (now Spectrum Microwave)
888-553-7531 / Philadelphia, PA

Hybrid amplifiers to 2 GHz and VCOs to 20 GHz. 750 datasheets to choose from with customizations requested. Industry standard packages, aggressive lead times and great customer service, "Cascade" system simulator software - FREE.

Anadigics
908-668-5000 / Warren, NJ

Base station PAs, switches, handset PAs, gain block amplifiers, upconverters, downconverters, line amplifiers, drop amplifiers for cable systems, and transimpedance amplifiers for fiber optic applications, Cascade Calculator.

Ansoft
412-261-3200 / Pittsburgh, PA

Ansoft Designer is the seamless solution for physics-based RF, high-speed, & communication design. By linking physical attributes to electrical performance, Ansoft Designer makes it possible to get it right the first time. With Ansoft's Solver on Demand technology & seamless integration, the software eliminates design risk & uncertainty by providing engineers with the information necessary to make correct decisions during all stages of the design process.

APLAC Corporation (now AWR)
+358 9 540 450 00 / Espoo, Finland

APLAC Solutions was acquired by Applied Wave Research. AWR-APLAC is the developer of APLAC analog and RFIC circuit simulator. APLAC simulator is now integrated into AWR's Analog and Microwave office design tools.

Arden Technologies
804-525-6837 / Forest, VA

SysCalc RF, system simulator, performs cascaded simulation using an intuitive note-book metaphor.

Avista Design Systems
800-985-6080 / Folsom, CA

Avista Design Systems RF, Microwave.

Broadcast System Planner (EBSP)
by ERI

A very nice application FM and broadcast TV  systems for plotting antenna patterns, calculating power levels and transmission line parameters, and other system data like deicers and radomes. A full report is printable at the end of the analysis. Many white papers available for download on the site as well.

CelPlan Technologies, Inc
703-259-4043 / Reston, VA

Software tools and services for wireless data collection, field measurement, system design, planning, optimization, enhancement, and competitive analysis including CelPlanner, CelOptima, CelEnhancer, CelAir, CelDoc, and many other custom software solutions.

Colin's Webpages
UK

RFProp - propagation calculator for the transmission path between an RF transmitter and a receiver, aimed mainly at free-space & space-wave applications, such as are encountered in VHF, UHF & microwave communications, & also in satellite communications, a knife-edge diffraction calculation is also included which when enabled allows the effects of a hill or other obstruction to be taken into account. - FREE

Eagleware-Elanix  Purchased by Agilent
678-291-0995 / Norcross, GA

GENESYS suites: simulation, synthesis, and instrument interface products, advanced simulation and modeling: SPECTRASYS, HARBEC, EMPOWER / ML, etc, synthesis: advanced T/LINE, A/FILTER, EQUALIZE, FILTER, MATCH, M/FILTER, OSCILLATOR, S/FILTER, SIGNAL CONTROL, instrument interface: TESTLINK, SystemView by Elanix.

Ham CAP Propagation Software

HF propagation prediction tool for Amateur Radio by Alex Shovkoplyas, VE3NEA

Ham CAP provides a COM/OLE Automation interface that 3-rd party programs can use to start Ham CAP, to set prediction parameters, and to run predictions. In a typical application integrated with Ham CAP the user will right-click on a call sign, and Ham CAP will pop up and display the point-to-point propagation chart. Incredible graphics!

iBwave Solutions, Inc
514-397-0606 / Montreal, Quebec, Canada

RF-vu Software: In-building wireless design solutions for wireless carriers, equipment suppliers and infrastructure integrators. One tool to manage the complete project lifecycle from design plan to “as built”, includes support for simultaneous design of multiples technologies such as 3G, 2G, Wifi, WIMAX and multiples frequency bands VHF/UHF, Tetra, Public safety700, GSM, UMTS, AWS & more. Automatic calculation, hardware validation, coordination of all documentations, consistence in design & flexibility, RF-vu the ultimate planning tool.

Metric Systems Corp
800-549-7421 / Vista, CA

Wireless networking equipment & solutions for government & industry, building broadband licensed & unlicensed networks in a range of environments including: critical infrastructure, energy, mining, transportation, seismic monitoring, fresh & waste water management, defense. software tools include: NetBuilder, MavWatch and NetWatch, as well as a range of custom networking applications and utilities.

Mixer Spurious Explorer

by MRF Technologies, LLC

Mixer Spurious Explorer is a tool to investigate and simplify this part of the design process for up and down converters.

Key capabilities: Perform frequency planning for receivers and transmitters. Frequency planning display and spur web display in one software tool. Tuning and animation mode for tunable preselectors. Addresses block converter and tuned LO converters. Customized mixer spur table.

Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, D.C.

Interactive Scenario Builder is an interactive, three dimensional, Radio Frequency (RF) Tactical Decision Aid (TDA). Builder is a computer simulation tool that provides insight into and visualization of the RF capabilities of platforms in addition to providing geo-spatial & temporal situation awareness (SA). Builder models communication & radar systems by calculating one-way and two-way RF propagation loss. It incorporates complex antenna pattern and radar cross section (RCS) pattern data as well as the effects of meteorology, terrain, environment, and countermeasures when computing power level results. It visualizes many different NGA map products including CADRG and CIB, enhancing the geo-spatial SA of a user and can be used as a pre-mission planning, real-time SA, and as an after-action debriefing tool.

OPNET Technologies, Inc
240-497-3000 / Bethesda, MD

OPNET (OPtimum NETwork performance): advanced optical/wireless network modeling and R&D, network management and design software.

Optiwave
866-576-6784 / Canada

OptiAmplifier - optical fiber amplifier & laser design, OptiBPM - waveguide optics modeling, Optifiber - optical fiber design, OptiPlanner - optical network planning, OptiSystem - optical communication system design.

PathLoss
by Contract Telecommunication Engineering

A comprehensive path design tool for radio links operating in the frequency range from 30 MHz to 100 GHz. The program is organized into eight path design modules, an area signal coverage module and a network module which integrates the radio paths and area coverage analysis. Uses NADCON data to transform latitudes and longitudes between the North American Datum of 1927 (NAD27) and the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83).

PedaSoft
800-910-7919

Pack-IT™ A customized software tool for RF system simulation of packaged chips. Pack-IT models traces, substrate, active, and passive components simultaneously in a self-consistent way, which enables first-pass success for RF system design.

Semi-IT™ A customized software tool for active component design such as a power amplifier (PA). Pack-IT models the PA, substrate, and matching circuits simultaneously in a self-consistent way, which enables first-pass success for RF component design. Please email us at support@pedasoft.com with your project request, and one of our technical team will contact you.

Polyphase Microwave
812-323-8708 / Bloomington/IN

I/Q and single-sideband mixer products for RF/microwave. Quadrature modulators, quadrature demodulators, image-reject mixers, and single-sideband modulators. Solutions for low-IF, zero-IF, and direct conversion Rx/Tx. Download QMSIM, our free quadrature modulator simulation tool, and design your next direct conversion transmitter with ease!

Radioplan
+49 (0) 351 40429-0 / Germany

WiNeS - software platform for 3G network validation & optimization, efficiently supports network planning, optimization, measurement gathering, & trouble shooting processes of 3G operators due to its unparalleled capabilities for integration, data management, usability, visualization, & key network performance data evaluation.

R.A. Wood Associates
315-735-4217 / Utica, NY

Engineering consulting services, computer automated test design & development, engineering prototypes & low rate manufacturing, RF/Microwave system design & analysis, subcontract specifications, wireless system design, custom software program development, LabVIEW software development, lectures & training classes, computer consulting services. Software: SpurFinder, TunerHelper, RFSpecTest, PathLossSolver, Painless Extraction.

RFPlan
425-643-5000 / Bellevue, WA

Assists wireless system planners, RF design engineers and operations personnel with detailed System Planning, accurate System Designing and efficient Operations Support. Generate data, maps and reports utilizing terrain profiling and assessments, interference analysis, down-link and up-link analysis, microwave link planning and analysis, bit-error rate analysis, antenna editing, and propagation to complete your FCC filings.

RSoft
914-923-2164 / Ossining, NY

LinkSIM - fiber optics links & nets, BeamPROP - photonic devices & circuits | LaserMOD - active semiconductor devices, FullWAVE - photonic nanostructure.

Safe Engineering Services
800-668-3737 / Montreal, Quebec Canada

Autogrid Pro - fully automated design of multiple grounding systems of any shape buried in arbitrary soil.

Right-of-Way - accurately compute voltages and currents transferred from electric power lines and cables (by inductive, capacitive and through-earth coupling) to pipelines, railways, communication lines and other such utilities, whether buried or aboveground.

SoftWright LLC
800-728-4033 / Aurora, CO

Terrain Analysis Package, Grid Engine for Topography.

Spirent Communications
732-544-8700 / Eatontown, NJ

Multi-path fading simulator, channel emulator, AirAnalyzer for handset analysis: post-processing application that integrates field data & presents the data in easy to analyze formats.

SPLAT! for Linux

SPLAT! is an RF Signal Propagation, Loss, And Terrain analysis tool for the spectrum between 20 MHz and 20 GHz.

SPLAT! provides site engineering data such as the great circle distances and bearings between sites, antenna elevation angles (uptilt), depression angles (downtilt), antenna height above mean sea level, antenna height above average terrain, bearings and distances to known obstructions, path loss and field strength based on the Longley-Rice Irregular Terrain Model, and minimum antenna height requirements needed to establish line-of-sight communication paths and Fresnel Zone clearances absent of obstructions due to terrain.

SPLAT! produces reports, graphs, and highly detailed and carefully annotated topographic maps depicting line-of-sight paths, path loss, field strength, and expected coverage areas of transmitters and repeater systems. When performing line-of-sight analysis in situations where multiple transmitter or repeater sites are employed, SPLAT! determines individual and mutual areas of coverage within the network specified.

SPLAT! for Windows
by FUTURADIO, John McMellen (KC0FLR), CBNT

RF propagation modeling with SPLAT! for Windows

Many are probably familiar with John Magliacane's RF Signal Propagation, Loss, And Terrain analysis software (SPLAT!). This software is useful for visualizing terrain and performing Longley-Rice path loss and coverage prediction using the Irregular Terrain Model. It had been only available for the Linux OS. I was able to compile it for Windows with a few minor modifications. This is a command line program, freely available under the GNU GPL. I would be happy to include the source code if you are so inclined.

Terrain Analysis Package (TAP)

Radio coverage predictions, intermodulation studies and radio transmitter site administration; TV and FM broadcasting, MMDS, ITFS, PCS, SCADA, WLL, WiFi, WiMAX, microwave, cellular, paging, air-to-ground, ship-to-shore and conventional two-way radio system design.

The Engineers Club
408-445-2902 / San Jose, CA

MxrSpur graphical mixer spurious analysis.

Transmission Link Planner
Alok K. Tiwari, of Idea Cellular Ltd. / Delhi, India

Excel workbook for transmission link planning - FREE

W6ELProp
Sheldon C. Shallon

W6ELProp predicts ionospheric (sky-wave) propagation between any two locations on the earth on frequencies between 3 and 30 MHz.

Wave Concepts
214-207-0516 / Richardson, TX

Athena - RF propagation analysis & planning Tool for the wireless industry, supports CDMA, TDMA, GSM, AMPS, LMDS, MMDS, WLL, point to point microwave, & 3G technologies.

Wolfram Research
800-965-3726 / Champaign, IL

Control System Professional - object-oriented environment for solving common problems in control & systems areas within Mathematica.

Wireless Valley Communications
512-821-1560 / Austin, TX

SitePlanner - design, measurement & management of all indoor & campus-wide cellular, PCS, & 3G networks, LANPlanner - engineering, design, archiving, & maintenance.