The CHICAGO suite consists of the ChicaGUI to input geometric and other parameters; the CHICAGO plasma physics modeling code which executes the simulation; and the Aurora graphical postprocessor for viewing and analyzing results.

• runs on Windows, Macs, Linux clusters, and advanced computer architectures;
• currently being optimized for GPU operation;
• supports solid object construction with permittivity, permeability, gas breakdown, including Solid Works import;
• has novel, published (400 publications) algorithms for explicit, implicit, and hybrid kinetic/fluid simulation.

CHICAGO is a FDTD toolkit of field/particle advanced techniques for plasma simulation:

• Fully electromagnetic and relativistic, moving frame;
• 3D orthogonal grid 1^st or 2^nd order (partial-cell conformal boundaries with particles) surfaces.
• all plasma descriptions use PIC techniques, and can be combined in Hybrid operation;
• kinetic, multi-fluids (inertia and charge separation);
• Quasi-neutral with multiple ions, new Hall implementation.