Development of EWS aided graphical facilities for computational electromagnetism

Author

Furukawa, Tatsuya ; Eguchi, Toshihiro ; Ohchi, Masashi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Saga Univ., Japan

Volume

33

Issue

2

fYear

1997

fDate

3/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1978

Lastpage

1981

Abstract

The engineering work station (EWS) and the personal computer (PC) have been applied to various electromagnetic problems in computational electromagnetism, whose practical calculations have been conventionally executed by mainframe computers. Although the practical programs coded under the mainframe computer system may be readily migrated to those on the EWS and the PC, the graphical output facilities are not always available in all the computational environments. The paper proposes the license-royalty free and portable graphical utilities, which comprise the CALCOMP compatible plotter control library PSP that generates the HP-GL codes, the gl2ps that converts the HP-GL data to the Postscript language, and the xngraph that can depict the schematic results using the raw numeric data

Keywords

electrical engineering; electrical engineering computing; electromagnetism; engineering graphics; engineering workstations; microcomputer applications; software portability; workstations; CALCOMP compatible plotter control library; EWS aided graphical facilities; HP-GL codes; HP-GL data; PSP library; Postscript language; computational electromagnetism; engineering workstation; gl2ps; graphical output facilities; license-royalty free graphical utilities; mainframe computers; personal computer; portable graphical utilities; practical programs; raw numeric data; schematic results; xngraph; Algorithms; Computer graphics; Control systems; Data engineering; Data visualization; Electromagnetic fields; Interpolation; Microprocessors; Page description languages; Software libraries;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/20.582685

Filename

582685