
Published papers or books may have insufficient information to reproduce reference designs and often good reference results aren't available. If you know where to start the design process, the elementary steps should be trivial, but often the starting point is not that well defined. When designing an antenna for the first time, there are some elementary steps that need to be completed before continuing with the distinctive (non-standard) part of the design process. Unlike most literature, Antenna Magus highlights unique and general characteristics of each antenna which makes it easy to compare antennas with each other and, more importantly, to compare them with the given requirements. To meet the need for rapid assessment of many antenna elements, antenna information in Antenna Magus is structured in a standardized format, making it easy to compare different elements. Often, one of the first elements considered becomes the de facto choice, simply because too much time has been expended on the element choice and the "cost" to start over with a new element is too high. In many cases it is only after the attempt to adapt and optimize an existing antenna element has failed to meet the new specifications that the engineer will start to consider other elements.

Antenna Magus makes it easy to explore alternative options. Whether starting with a new design or updating an existing system, most antenna engineers will start with an antenna element that is well known.
