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@admin-2026 admin-2026 released this 26 Aug 00:07

First public release. Could be buggy.

A KiCad pcbnew plugin for designing and simulating PCB antennas in the board editor. One toolbar button gets you:

  • EM simulation of the open board — a bundled FDTD solver meshes your real copper, stackup and drills and reports the
    radiation pattern and S11.
  • Design wizards for an L-shaped monopole and a meandered inverted-F — mark the area, sweep the dimensions, get the
    candidates ranked and the winner placed as a footprint.
  • Runs you can watch and interrupt — stop early and still get a report, or snapshot one mid-solve.

Requires KiCad 9.0+, Windows or Linux x86-64 (macOS not supported yet).

Install: download AntennaDesigner-0.1.0-pcm.zip below → Plugin and Content Manager → Install from File… → restart
KiCad.

Licence: plugin MIT; simulator binary proprietary, free for non-commercial use. Commercial use needs a licence — ask on
Discord or open an issue.