Current Mystic Version: 1.09
Release date: 2011/11/26
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.: what's Mystic

Mystic (somewhat a contraction of Microwave sYSTem Calculator) is an easy-to-use program which provides you with a smart way to build your RF/electronic design faster and easier. Moreover Mystic is a system level tool, a line-up / link budget design tool:

  • What have you to expect from your lineup?
  • Which specs are matched and which ones are not?
  • Would this transmitter and this receiver work in this field case?
  • Should I add an attenuator at this point of the chain designing my transmitter?
  • Or do you just need of an ip3 / im3 calculator for your link budget?
You have to find out which parts of your chain need to be improved or need a more complex design/attention at a very beginning state ... if something turns out to be critical too late during design flow you will surely lose time and money.
You can avoid this by using MicroWave System Calculator!

Web site first built on May 1st, 2006

 

.: about us

We have been microwave designers for many years, working for some small/big companies in the telecom market and designing any sort of microwave devices: hybrids and dividers, active and passive filters, frequency doublers and mixers, DROs and pll, phase shifters and comb generators, and so on ... oh yes, of course ;-), microwave power amplifiers. We got also experiences in waveguide design: filters, Tee junctions, multiplexer, wide-band microstrip-waveguide transitions.

So we know what kind of difficulties a designer is facing every day.
Some of the ones related to software (CAD) stuff are:

  • Software too difficult to be able to get results "quick and dirty" to guide your starting design.
  • Software wants to think very often in place of you.
  • Do you really need of complicated CADs able to compute the influence of moon cycle on the speed of electrons moving inside the GaAs FET of your power amplifier?

Answering these questions MicroWave System Calculator came out.

Give it a chance: think more than you click!

.: general advantages of Mystic

Mystic analyzes a n-stage microwave/analog/communication system and calculates cascaded performance parameters.
In particular you can:
  1. Ease rf systems development by experimenting different system solutions

  2. Reduce wrong design risk due to the fact that any system design error can be found very early by Mystic analysis

  3. Simulate a component chain made of a not limited number of elements
    (to be honest, limited by the amount of your computer memory ;-) )

  4. Insert input data using portable text files

  5. Graphing s2p files using the built-in viewer

  6. Use a tool that is easy to learn and to use, fast and low cost (it's free!)

.: Latest News

  • Problem with the Framework 4.0/4.5 has been reported:
    • installer is not able to check framework version.
    If you are getting this problem, please write us and we'll provide you with a manual way to install Mystic until new installer release

    .: version history

    2011/11/28
    1.09
    *
    Solved bug: memory was corrupted after loading data files from long directory path
    *
    Solved bug: solo component analysis, broken in 1.08, working again
    2011/09/10
    1.08
    *
    EditInput menu revised
    *
    Row's cut&paste improved
    +
    Use of the same name for components is now issuing a message instead of getting Mystic to stuck
    2011/04/16
    1.07
    *
    Enhanced polynomial model for gain compression and saturation
    +
    Added graph saving capability .png and .tif
    +
    Minor tweaks and enhancements
    *
    Minor bug fixes
    2010/12/30
    1.06
    *
    Solved bug: saturated power was sometimes faulty when changed on the fly (not saved on file)
    +
    New polynomial model for gain compression and saturation: this model does more control on not coherent input data
    2010/12/11
    1.05
    *
    Solved bug: sometime component type selection did not unlock appropriate row input cells
    *
    Solved bug: opening routine does not find files with not lower case suffixes
    +
    Pro version: graphs do not contain anymore reference to Mystic web site
    +
    Revised menu structure
    +
    Mystic has now a built-in s2p file viewer
    +
    Added option to disable graphical output
    +
    Enhanced visualization on low resolution screens
    +
    Minor tweaks and enhancements
    2010/10/23
    +
    Added tutorial #2 - Finding IM3 products through IP3
    2010/10/09
    1.01
    *
    Solved bug: input data consistency check was sometime failing
    2010/09/26
    1.00
    *
    Microwave System Calculator changes its short name to Mystic
    +
    Completely new Mystic graphic interface
    +
    Console output is now integrated into the main application window
    *
    Minor bug fixes and enhancements
    2010/05/05
    1.00b2
    *
    Minor bug fixes and enhancements
    *
    Updated tutorial #1 - Change system performances quickly
    2010/04/22
    1.00b
    +
    Added editor for MwSC data files
    +
    Added graph saving capability to .bmp, .jpg and .gif
    +
    Spaces in stage component name are allowed
    *
    Solved Vista/7 compatibility
    +
    Minor tweaks and enhancements
    2010/01/16
    0.99
    *
    Solved bug causing parsing error on misconfigured windows international options
    MwSC CL has been updated too and the latest version is now 0.86
    2009/07/11
    0.98
    +
    Enhanced stage name displaying on x-axes graphs
    +
    Installer now checks dependencies and suggest required installations
    2009/02/28
    0.97
    *
    Solved bug in automatic windows positioning at startup (XP)
    +
    Some memory allocation optimization
    +
    Updated graphical output interface
    2008/10/03
    0.96
    *
    Solved bug in font dimensioning when printing multiple plots on one sheet
    *
    Minor cosmetic enhancements
    2008/06/11
    0.95
    +
    Automatic windows positioning at startup
    *
    In some configuration, no more errors looking for non existing s2p files
    (s2p data files is a coming feature ;-) )
    *
    Minor cosmetic enhancements
    2008/02/25
    0.90
    +
    Added graphical output interface
    2007/11/14
    +
    Added tutorial #1 - Change system performances quickly
    2007/03/05
    0.85
    +
    Warning when compressing before P1dB
    +
    Active components: power output is now limited by Psat
    +
    Added gain compression effect on system gain
    *
    Gain compression no more causes high Pout negative values if an high input power is used
    2007/01/28
    0.82
    +
    Strengthened data file parser
    2006/12/09
    0.81
    +
    Added IIM3 OIM3 calculation
    +
    Added IIP3 OIP3 calculation
    +
    Added colors to output
    *
    Enhanced result's presentation at system level
    2006/10/07
    0.73
    +
    Added filename parameter to commandline
    +
    Added IM3 calculation
    2006/09/09
    0.72
    +
    Gain compression implemented: not abrupt transition but interpolated by third order polynomial between compressed and saturated output power level
    -
    Changed name of data file from data.dat to data.txt (due to big request ... it seems to be more practical)
    2006/09/03
    0.71
    +
    Gain compression implemented: not abrupt transition but interpolated by third order polynomial between linear and compressed output power level
    *
    Fixed problem with linearity status detection
    *
    Fixed problem with Pin data value reading
    2006/08/27
    0.69
    +
    Added warning in case of non linearity
    2006/05/13
    0.68
    +
    First public release: Gain, Pout, NF, IIP3 available for calculation
    +
    No constrain in the component chain lenght

    (+ New feature, * Enhanced feature, - Removed feature)



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