create_bmp_for_circ_in_circ(1)				      General Commands Manual				    create_bmp_for_circ_in_circ(1)

NAME

       create_bmp_for_circ_in_circ - bitmap generator for circular conductor inside circular conductor (part of atlc)

SYNOPSIS

       create_bmp_for_circ_in_circ [options... ] D d O Er filename.bmp

WARNING

       This  man page is not a complete set of documentation - the complexity of the atlc project makes man pages not an ideal way to document it,
       although out of completeness, man pages are produced.  The best documentation that was current at the time the version was produced  should
       be found on your hard drive, usually at
       /usr/local/share/atlc/docs/html-docs/index.html
       although  it might be elsewhere if your system administrator chose to install the package elsewhere. Sometimes, errors are corrected in the
       documentation and placed at http://atlc.sourceforge.net/ before a new release of atlc is released.  Please, if you notice  a  problem  with
       the documentation - even spelling errors and typos, please let me know.

DESCRIPTION

       create_bmp_for_circ_in_circ  is	a  pre-processor for atlc, the finite difference program that is used to calculate the properties of a two
       and three conductor electrical transmission line of arbitrary cross section. The program create_bmp_for_circ_in_circ is used as a fast  way
       of  generating  bitmaps (there is no need to use a graphics program), for a circular conductor inside a circular conductor (coaxial conduc-
       tors), like this:

			   *****************
		       ****		    ****
		    ****    <-----d------>     ****
		  ***		 *****		  ***
		***	      ***********	    ***
	      ***	     *************	      ***
	     ***	    ***************	       ***
	    ***      ^	    ***************		***
	   ***	     |	    ***************		 ***
	  ***	     |	     *************		  ***
	  **	     O	      ***********		   **
	 ***	     |		  ***			   ***
	 **	     |					    **
	 *<------------------------D------------------------>*
	 **						    **
	 **						    **
	 **						    **
	 ***						   ***
	  **						   **
	  ***						  ***
	   **						  **
	    **						 **
	     ** 					**
	      ***				      ***
	       ****				    ****
		 ****				  ****
		   *****		       *****
		      ******		   ******
			  *******************
				  ***

       The parameter 'D' is the inner dimensions of the outer conductor and 'd' is the outer diameter of the inner conductor.  The inner conductor
       is offset 'h' from the centre of the outer conductor. The whole region is surrounded by a dielectric of relative permittivity 'Er'.

       The bitmap is printed to 'outfile.bmp' - the last command line argument.

       The bitmaps produced by create_bmp_for_circ_in_circ are 24-bit bit colour bitmaps, as are required by atlc.

       The  permittivities of the dielectric 'Er' determines the colours in the bitmap. If Er is 1.0, 1.006, 2.1, 2.2, 2.33, 2.5, 3.3, 3.335, 3,7,
       4.8, 10.2 or 100, then the colour corresponding to that permittivity will be set according to the colours defined in COLOURS below.  If	Er
       is  not	one of those permittivities, the region of permittivity Er will be set to the colour 0xCAFF00. The program atlc does not know what
       this permittivity is, so atlc, must be told with the command line option -d, as in example 4 below.

OPTIONS

       -b bitmapsize
       is used to set the size of the bitmap, and so the accuracy to which atlc is able to  calculate  the  transmission  line's  properties.  The
       default	value  for  'bitmapsize' is normally 4, although this is set at compile time. The value can be set anywhere from 1 to 15, but more
       than 8 is probably not sensible.

       -f outfile
       Set the output filename. By default, the bitmap is sent to stdout, but it *must* be sent to a file,  with  this	option,  or  as  described
       above.

       -v
       Causes  create_bmp_for_circ_in_circ  to	print  some data to stderr. Note, nothing extra goes to standard output, as that is expected to be
       redirected to a bitmap file.

COLOURS

       The 24-bit bitmaps that atlc expects, have 8 bits assigned to represent the amount of red, 8 for blue and 8 for green. Hence there are  256
       levels  of  red, green and blue, making a total of 256*256*256=16777216 colours.  Every one of the possible 16777216 colours can be defined
       precisely by the stating the exact amount of red, green and blue, as in:

       red	   = 255,000,000 or 0xff0000
       green	   = 000,255,000 or 0x00ff00
       blue	   = 000,000,255 or 0x0000ff
       black	   = 000,000,000 or 0x000000
       white	   = 255,255,255 or 0xffffff
       Brown	   = 255,000,255 or 0xff00ff
       gray	   = 142,142,142 or 0x8e8e8e

       Some colours, such as pink, turquoise, sandy, brown, gray etc may mean slightly different things to different people. This is not  so  with
       atlc, as the program expects the colours below to be EXACTLY defined as given. Whether you feel the colour is sandy or yellow is up to you,
       but if you use it in your bitmap, then it either needs to be a colour reconised by atlc, or you must define it with a command  line  option
       (see OPTIONS and example 5 below).
       The following conductors are reconised by atlc:
       red    = 255,000,000 or 0xff0000 is the live conductor.
       green  = 000,255,000 or 0x00ff00 is the grounded conductor.
       blue   = 000,000,000 or 0x000000 is the negative conductor

       All  bitmaps must have the live (red) and grounded (green) conductor. The blue conductor is not currently supported, but it will be used to
       indicate a negative conductor, which will be needed if/when the program gets extended to analyse directional couplers.

       The following dielectrics are reconised by atlc and so are produced by create_bmp_for_circ_in_circ.

       white	 255,255,255 or 0xFFFFFF as Er=1.0   (vacuum)
       pink	 255,202,202 or 0xFFCACA as Er=1.0006 (air)
       blue	 000,000,255 or 0x0000FF as Er=2.1   (PTFE)
       Mid gray  142,242,142 or 0x8E8E8E as Er=2.2   (duroid 5880)
       mauve	 255.000,255 or 0xFF00FF as Er=2.33  (polyethylene)
       yellow	 255,255,000 or 0xFFFF00 as Er=2.5   (polystyrene)
       sandy	 239,203,027 or 0xEFCC1A as Er=3.3   (PVC)
       brown	 188,127,096 or 0xBC7F60 as Er=3.335 (epoxy resin)
       Turquoise 026,239,179 or 0x1AEFB3 as Er=4.8   (glass PCB)
       Dark gray 142,142,142 or ox696969 as Er=6.15  (duroid 6006)
       L. gray	 240,240,240 or 0xDCDCDC as Er=10.2  (duroid 6010)

NOTE

       Although create_bmp_for_circ_in_circ is used for circular inner and outer conductors, the outside of the outer  conductor  is  drawn  as  a
       square. This is for convenience and makes no difference to the calculations. The inside is of the outer conductor is drawn as a circle.

EXAMPLES

       Here  are  a  few  examples  of	the  use  of  create_bmp_for_circ_in_circ.  Again,  see  the  html  documentation in atlc-X.Y.Z/docs/html-
       docs/index.html for more examples.

       1) In the first example, the outer conductor has an inside diameter of 12 units (inches, mm, feet etc.), the inner has an outside  diameter
       of 3.9 units.  The inner is placed centrally (h=0) and the dielectric is vacuum (Er=1.0).
       % create_bmp_for_circ_in_circ 12 3.9 0 1.0 coaxial_1.bmp
       % atlc coaxial_1.bmp
       atlc  will  indicate  the  correct  value of impedance to be 67.3667 Ohms, whereas an exact analysis will show the true value to be 67.4358
       Ohms, so atlc has an error of 0.102%.

       2) In this second example, the conductor sizes are the sames as in example 1, but the inner is located 3.5 units off-centre and the dielec-
       tric has a relative permittivity of 2.1 (Er of PTFE) The output is sent to a file not_in_centre.bmp which is then processed by atlc
       % create_bmp_for_circ_in_circ 12 3.9 3.5 2.1 not_in_centre.bmp
       % atlc not_in_centre.bmp
       The  impedance  of  this is theoretically 24.315342 Ohms, as create_bmp_for_circ_in_circ will calculate for you. atlc's estimate is 24.2493
       Ohms, an error of only -0.271 %.

       3) In the third example the bitmap is made larger, to increase accuracy, but otherwise this is identical to the previous one.
       % create_bmp_for_circ_in_circ -b8 12 3.9 3.5 2.1 bigger_not_in_centre.bmp
       % atlc bigger_not_in_centre.bmp
       This time atlc will take much longer to calculate Zo, since the bitmap is larger and so it needs to  do	more  calculations.  However,  the
       final  result should be more accurate. In this case, the result reported is 24.2461 Ohms, an error that's marginally smaller than before at
       0.285 %.  It is possible there may be something to be gained by decreasing the cutoff at larger grids, so this is being investigated.  How-
       ever, errors almost always below 0.25 %, no matter what is being analysed.

       In  the	fourth	example,  a  material  with  a	relativity  permittivity  7.89	of  is	used.  There  is  no  change  in  how  to use cre-
       ate_bmp_for_circ_in_circ, but since this permittivity is not one of the pre-defined values (see COLOURS), we must tell  atlc  what  it  is.
       The  colour  will be set an olive green one, with a hexacidcal representation of red=0xCA, blue=OxFF and green = 0x00. This just happens to
       be the default colour  used when the permittivity is unknown. So atlc must be given this information, like thisL
       % create_bmp_for_circ_in_circ 23 9 0 7.89 an_odd_er.bmp
       % atlc -d CAFF00=7.89 an_odd_er.bmp This has a theoretical impedance of 20.041970 Ohms, but atlc version 3.0.1  will  calculate	it  to	be
       20.0300,  an  error of -0.058 % !!! If you look at the file an_odd_er.bmp with a graphics package, you will see there are 3 colours in it -
       the red inner conductor, the green outer and an olive-green dielectric.

SEE ALSO

       atlc(1)
       create_bmp_for_circ_in_rect(1)
       create_bmp_for_microstrip_coupler(1)
       create_bmp_for_rect_cen_in_rect(1)
       create_bmp_for_rect_cen_in_rect_coupler(1)
       create_bmp_for_rect_in_circ(1)
       create_bmp_for_rect_in_rect(1)
       create_bmp_for_stripline_coupler(1)
       create_bmp_for_symmetrical_stripline(1)
       design_coupler(1) find_optimal_dimensions_for_microstrip_coupler(1) readbin(1)

       http://atlc.sourceforge.net		  - Home page
       http://sourceforge.net/projects/atlc	  - Download area
       atlc-X.Y.Z/docs/html-docs/index.html	  - HTML docs
       atlc-X.Y.Z/docs/qex-december-1996/atlc.pdf - theory paper
       atlc-X.Y.Z/examples			  - examples

Dr. David Kirkby					     atlc-4.4.2 10th Sept 2003				    create_bmp_for_circ_in_circ(1)