Estudio, análisis y selección de la mejor herramienta de software libre para diseñar y desarrollar prácticas de laboratorio de antenas para la carrera de Electrónica y Telecomunicaciones

Abstract

This project is based on analyzing and selecting a virtual tool based on free software to design and develop antenna laboratory practices for the career of Electronics and Telecommunications. Requirements were established to select the most appropriate software for this project. These requirements were based on analyzing the curricula of the career, the need for an appropriate laboratory, the benefits presented by the use of free software and the results of a teachers survey. In addition, the themes for laboratory practices were proposed, based on the contents of the subject radiant communications systems. Simulators antennas proposed in this project: 4NEC2 and MMANA-GAL were compared by developing an example. Then the best simulation tool was selected based on an evaluation process of the established requirements. Finally, the development of the 14 laboratory practices were showed. This development was very useful in order to strengthen, support and challenge the theoretical part using the 4NEC2 simulator. In this way the various tools and features that comprise the software were known in order to determine the basic parameters of the antennas.