Contents I. Introduction
Open source software tools are the best solutions for the academia and research industries. Developing open source laboratory and research tools plays a vital role and they are need of the hour in this pandemic(COVID-19) situation across the globe. Various open source tools has been developing for different engineering and numerical applications. Especially commercial electromagnetic simulators imposes much financial burdens to academic institutions of the developing and underdeveloped countries, for such cases the open source simulating tools are absolutely a boon for the research communities and specially for individual students. In the way to find the solutions for electromagnetic problems using open source tools, this paper concentrated on a preliminary study on Scilab programming for the design of antenna arrays. Actually Scilab programming is entirely bestowed with a great programming language whose syntax is simple to employ and has all characteristics of a high level programming [1]. Owing to this advantage Scilab software is widely used in various fields of engineering. Merits of using Xcos and Scilab in the design of RC filter rather than simulink and matlab has discussed in [2], authors of this article appreciated that the Scilab syntax is available in their local language. Fiber optic communication tool box has been developed using Scilab. Few selected modules of this tool box are electrical filters, measuring instruments, signal sources, optical sources, components, measuring instruments, amplifiers, modulators, etc [3].
