Computational Performance of MATLAB and Python for Electromagnetic Applications

摘要

MATLAB and Python are two commonly usedscripting languages for prototyping electromagnetic problemstoday. Each of these languages provides access tocomputationally efficient functions allowing a user to easily runmany math heavy problems with minimal programming. In thispaper we will discuss the usage of MATLAB and a varietyof libraries in Python capable of running these efficientcomputations. Tests will be run in both languages to compareboth CPU and GPU computations. The runtimes of a variety ofproblems using each of these platforms will also be comparedfor a variety of mathematical operations typically used inelectromagnetic problems. Finally, a simple angle of arrivalcalculation using conventional beamforming will be performedto show these speeds on a realistic problem.