Microstrip patch antennas are gaining popularity for use in wireless applications owing to their low profile, light weight, low production cost, simple planar structure, and ease of fabrication. Therefore, they are extremely suitable for use as embedded antennas in handheld wireless devices and portable devices. The design of compact antenna has been inevitable to cope with the rapid growth of wireless applications. The effective techniques to shrink down the antenna size are: use of high permittivity substrates, use of magnetic substrates, increase in electrical length, reactive loadings, short-circuits, and superstrates. However, many of these techniques have complicated patch structures. Beside these techniques, application of fractal geometry is introduced for size reduction. In proposed design, a simple space filling fractal, Sierpinski Carpet is etched on the edge-fed microstrip patch antenna to make its size smaller than its fundamental counterpart. The fractal iteration is performed up to 2nd order. The antenna are designed using finite element method based HFSS and their performances are demonstrated in terms of return loss, radiation pattern, smith chart, gain plot and VSWR. The antenna is fabricated to validate the simulated result and measurement is performed using Network Analyser (N5230A). Considerations on both the hardware and software aspects of the design are found to be in good agreement.