Dear scikit-rf users,
On the behalf of scikit-rf contributors, it is my pleasure to announce the release of the new version 0.24.0. The version 0.24 of scikit-rf includes a lot of improvements (such as speed improvements) and bug fixes.
Note that this version officially drops the support for Python 3.6. The minimum required python version is thus now Python 3.7.
The detailed list of changes can be found below.
Best regards,
Julien Hillairet
Improvements and new features
- Improvement of the accuracy of the OpenShort and ShortOpen de-embedding by @keikawa in #739.
- (Huge) Speed improvement in the
s2s
function,
particularly useful when working with large matrices (>300 ports), by
avoiding unnecessary conversion of S-matrix definition by @qmfrf in #738 - Fix and Update methods in the virtual instrument module which called deprecated pyvisa methods by @cafeclimber in #409
- New time-domain gating implementation using time-domain
multiplication instead of frequency-domain convolution. This gives a
speed benefit of multiple orders of magnitude, depending on the number
of samples by @Vinc0110 in #735
read_all
now sort files by default, to obtain a reproducible behaviour, by @xafra in #746- Important speed improvement in
network_2_dataframe
by @stevehamblin in #761 - Make vector fitting Spice output compatible to LTSpice by @FranzForstmayr in #760
- Added a new operator
>>
for 4-port network cascading with reversed indexing ("1=>2/3=>4" instead than "1=>3/2=>4") by @capn-freako in https://github.com/scikit
Documentation
- IEEEP370 : add a warning in the docstring to inform matlab users of the differences compared to matlab original implementation. The differences are: i) FIX-2 is flipped and ii) better root choice solution to avoid 180°
phase jumps in certain circumstances (NZC methods only) by @mhuser in #781
- Updates the documentation to highlight importance of different offset and port impedances, followed by 3 usage examples, close #754. by @biergaizi in #779
- Fixing typo and reference in Qfactor example by @jhillairet in #767
Bug Fixes
Code Quality Improvements and Continuous Integration
An important work has been made by @FranzForstmayr to improve the code quality and to move the codebase to follow the PEP 0621:
New Contributors
We are very happy to welcome new contributors to the project (thank you!):
Full Changelog: v0.23.1...v0.24.0