HDMI Layout Notes for EOMA68 Cards by Richard Wilbur

Libre Field Solvers[24] (Free Computational Electromagnetic Modeling Codes list at the Clemson University Vehicular Electronics Laboratory)

Name License URL Angora GPL http://www.angorafdtd.org/ atlc - Arbitrary Transmission Line Calculator (for transmission lines and directional couplers) GPL http://atlc.sourceforge.net/ Elmer GPL/LGPL https://www.csc.fi/web/elmer EMAP BSD-esque? http://www.cvel.clemson.edu/modeling/EMAG/EMAP/emap5/ FastImp MIT http://www.rle.mit.edu/cpg/fastimp.htm GSVIT GPL http://gsvit.net/ MEEP GPL http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/Meep MMTL - Multilayer Multiconductor Transmission Line GPL http://mmtl.sourceforge.net/ openEMS GPLv3+ http://openems.de/start/index.php OpenMaXwell GPLv3+ http://openmax.ethz.ch/ (runs on Linux under wine) pdnMesh GPLv2 http://pdnmesh.sourceforge.net/ Puma-EM GPLv2 https://sourceforge.net/projects/puma-em/ WOLFSIM GPLv2 https://sourceforge.net/projects/wolfsim/ xfemm - Cross-platform Finite Element Method Magnetics Aladdin Free Public License, Apache Licence v2.0 https://sourceforge.net/projects/xfemm/

These are the field solvers that had what I understood to be a libre license from Clemson's list. There are fourteen packages here that made the cut and align with the goals of this project. I have no familiarity nor expertise with any of them or I would be in a better position to make a recommendation. It would be useful to be able to model not only the differential microstrip structure with ground shield traces and vias, but also signal vias for tuning them to transparency.

References: [24] http://www.cvel.clemson.edu/modeling/EMAG/free-codes.html