A Study on Scilab Free and Open Source Programming for Antenna Array Design

Usage of free and open source software has quietly increased in the scientific and academic community from the last few years. This study paper provides Scilab free and open source program example for the design of antenna arrays. A heptagonal antenna array has been considered and designed using Scilab programming. These results are compared with the same array antenna but implemented by the commercial software. Comparative analysis of array factor properies and how this software will be more opt for the academia has discussed in this paper.