Using CGAL for Robust Planar Geometry Processing in Agilent ADS

Summary

Agilent is an international measurement company. It’s core technologies are: Using CGAL for Robust Planar Geometry Processing in Agilent ADS

  • Measurement science
  • Electronic circuit and systems design
  • Applications software and solutions integration

Agilent ‘s Advanced Design System (ADS)  uses CGAL for robust polygon Boolean operations and layout preprocessing for (electromagnetic) EM simulation. It takes advantage of CGAL’s  unique computation system using exact arithmetic when needed,  and approximations elsewhere.

Before switching to CGAL, Agilent used 6 different sweep line algorithms which used double-precision floating point coordinates. None of them operated correctly in all cases.

The CGAL packages used by Agilent ADS are: Using CGAL for Robust Planar Geometry Processing in Agilent ADS

For more details, please view  The Slides by Michiel de Wilde presented at the 3rd CGAL User Workshop , Nancy, March 2008.

Acknowledgements

  • We are grateful to Michiel De Wielde for providing us with the material regarding Agilent’s use of CGAL.

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