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+Wcalc is a transmission line analysis and synthesis tool. Several
+structures including air core solenoid inductors, coaxial cable,
+single and coupled microstrip, stripline, and metal-insulator-
+semiconductor microstrip are included.
+
+Wcalc can analyze the electrical parameters for a given physical
+description of the structure or synthesize the required dimensions
+to meet certain desired electrical characteristics.
+
+Wcalc provides several different frontends for accessing the numeric
+engine. Currently, there is a GTK based standalone graphical
+user interface, a common gateway interface (CGI) for web access,
+Scilab, Octave, and Matlab interfaces for maximum flexibility within
+a scientific programming environment, and a standard input/output
+(stdio) interface which allows a simple interface to other 3rd
+party tools which can communicate via a pipe.
+
+The different frontends are installed as different packages for
+flexibility in deployment.