SPECIFICATIONS

Item	TAK 2000 Pro	TAK 2000 Lite
Nodes	40,000	100
Conductors	1,000,000	500
User defined constants	3,000	5
Material Properties	500	500
Variable heat sources	40,000	100
Thermal control louvers	3000	5
Heaters	3,000	5
Arrays	40,000	75
Array elements	1,500,000	1500
Logic blocks	Yes	No
Batch multiple runs	Yes	No
Workbench	Yes	Yes
Fortran Compiler	Optional, Intel Visual Fortran v10.1.011 or higher	None
Operating System	WIN2000, XP	WIN2000, XP
CPU	Pentium or better	Pentium or better
Disk Storage Req	30Mb	30Mb
Plugin Tools	Yes	No
Curves plotted	15	5
Plot from multiple files	Yes	No
Plot to printer	Yes	Yes
Plot to file	Enhanced meta and Bitmap	Bitmap
30 Days Free Support	Yes	No
Low price	$1895	$299
Multiple buy discounts	Yes	No

FEATURE COMPARISON

Feature	TAK 2000	Some flavors of SINDA
True WINDOWS based, WIN95, 98, NT (no wrapper)	YES	NO
Finite differencing technique	YES	YES
Implicit and explicit algorithms	YES	YES
Steady State and Transient solutions	YES	YES
Optional user supplied logic blocks (user subroutines)	YES	NO
Built-in thermostatic heaters (no coding required)	YES	NO
Built-in proportional heaters (no coding required)	YES	NO
Built-in thermal control louvers (no coding required)	YES	NO
Built-in load of initial temps (no coding required)	YES	NO
Built-in heater & louver status (no coding required)	YES	NO
Settable control constants	YES	YES
Solid node/conductor meshing	YES	NO
GEN- Generate a group of nodes	YES	YES
SIV- Node with temperature dependent capacitance	YES	YES
SIM- Generate a group of SIV nodes	YES	NO
TVT- Boundary node with time varying temperature	YES	NO
GEN- Generate a group of conductors	YES	YES
SIV- Temperature dependent conductor	YES	YES
SIM- Generate a group of SIV conductors	YES	YES
TVS- Time dependent conductor	YES	YES
PER- Cyclic time dependent conductor	YES	NO
NCV- Natural convection conductor	YES	NO
FLQ- Heating dependent flow conductor	YES	NO
GEN- Generate a group of heat sources	YES	YES
STF- Cyclic step function heat source	YES	NO
TVS- Time dependent heat sources	YES	YES
PER- Cyclic Time dependent heat sources	YES	YES
FLX- Group of time dependent heat sources	YES	NO
SIV- Temperature dependent heat sources	YES	YES
Arrays	YES	YES
Alpha node names	YES	NO
User variables in logic blocks	YES	YES
User variables and equations in data blocks	YES	NO
Plots of Temperature vs time; on-screen and to a printer	YES	NO
Comparison tabulation of multiple steady state runs	YES	NO
Tabulation of selected transient temperatures	YES	NO
Search and tabulation of max and min temp for transient	YES	NO
Model editor	YES	NO
Run-time status screen	YES	NO
Modern user interface	YES	NO
Workbench Environment	YES	NO