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Chapter 23 Accuracy Benchmarking<br />

Chapter 23 Accuracy<br />

Benchmarking<br />

Electromagnetic analyses are often described as providing what is called “Good<br />

Agreement Between Measured And Calculated” (GABMAC). However, in the<br />

past, there has been little effort to decide just what “good” means. The more useful<br />

result is the “Difference Between Measured And Calculated” (DMAC).<br />

There is an example of a coupled stripline benchmark available in Help under Applications.<br />

An Exact Benchmark<br />

What we need to calculate DMAC is an exact benchmark. One source of an exact<br />

benchmark is stripline. The characteristic impedance of a stripline has an exact<br />

theoretical expression K(k) and is the complete elliptical integral of the first kind.<br />

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