Mikrowellentechnik
PUFF -- an easy to use but cheap and powerful
S-Parameter Microwave CAD Program
PUFF was developed by the Caltech University in
America during DOS times, but now it is also running under Windows 7 without problems. It is easy to use and gives excellent results. It now comes
on a CD including all necessary files, a pdf copy of the original handbook, a lot of additional information and software --
and a brand new tutorial with more than 100 pages (= a project collection for beginners and users with experience).
A collection of S parameter files downloaded during many years from the Web and during the daily work (appr. 350 MegaByte) is also added.
The CD can be obtained from UKW-Berichte or from VHF Communications.
Windows 7 stopped the use of all DOS programs but the story starts again with the CD -- and PUFF is now running perfectly as never before.
To participate in this joy you have two possibilities:
a) You are a PUFF owner for a long time and the software can be found in your workshop after one hour of searching. Or you like to manage everything
by yourself and you refuse to buy the CD. In this case download the zipped software from this homepage (the link will follow in the download list).
Then
1) Copy all Puff files into a new PUFF folder on your hard disk.
2) Download the two programs "dosbox.exe" and "dosshell.exe" and install them on your PC. They are a part of the "zipped software: PUFF21 for
Windows7" in the following download list.
3) Download and print out the installation guide, the tutorial and the catalogue of the keystrokes
4) Use the installation guide to get the "DOS machine" running correctly.
5) Start PUFF and work through the tutorial (..have fun with it and its 100 pages of projects)
6) And if You like print out the original PUFF handbook and other information in the folders on the CD (or below in the download list)
b) If You prefer an easier life then buy the "PUFF for Windows7" - CD from UKW-Berichte
or VHF Communications.
In this case the huge S-parameter collection is a part of the CD.
The Tutorial is completely newly written and the translation now finished. At this moment
the tutorial status in the download
list is: Version 1.1 from June 17th, 2013 / 121 pages, now chapter 10 about oscillator design and measured S parameters of the INA03184
amplifier (of chapter 5) added
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Download and contact list:
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UKW-Berichte for Germans.
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VHF Communications for Others.
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PUFF-Microwave-CAD (= homepage of the Caltech University = PUFF's mother)
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For interested specialist: Download of PUFF for LINUX
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Installation of PUFF for Windows7
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PUFF2.1 for Windows 7 - Tutorial
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Catalogue of keystrokes and commands for PUFF21 under Windows7
(= self made, not existing in the original PUFF handbook)
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zipped software: "PUFF21 for Windows7"
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Irfan-View as a free and excellent graphic software to work with PUFF screenshots
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pdf version of the original PUFF handbook
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Here you find additional free
software, which is either used in the tutorial or a good tool for the own work.
This is fds filterdesign / PCAAD antenna design / Irfan-View (Graphic software) / patch16 (design of patch antennas) /
Bode plot (to create Bode diagrams from a PUFF simulation result)
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Here you find
datasheets and S parameter files
to the examples in the tutorial.
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Have a look at Oscillator design with PUFF
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A little collection of the Device files which are
included in the PUFF file folder. Have a look at the s parameters to realize a current source, a voltage source, a voltmeter.....
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Stripline-Corrections = diagram scans from the original PUFF handbook)
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Here comes some information from OM Joachim (DL2HWJ) to his self written program
Bode plot.
And here is the source code of Bode.exe Thanks, Joachim!
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