The current Xpatch user base includes more than 420 organizations across the United States. The company had a lot of knowledge on how these geometry files are organized, how they are read into the computer, and how they describe the aircraft. At the time, Chew said, calculating the radar cross section of an aircraft above one gigahertz was viewed as the Holy Grail of computational electromagnetics. The Fast Illinois Solver Code was distributed to more than 400 government agencies and industry labs. These organizations found the software especially useful because it significantly reduced both the computer time and memory requirements used in traditional methods of calculation.
Traditional methods solve a matrix equation directly by generating all elements of the matrix.
This requires a vast amount of storage for the matrix. The Fast Illinois Solver Code solves the problem without having to generate the matrix. Our center is thriving and doing well and that is a plus for the community because it attracts other companies to the area.