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Microwave

Ofce

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Layout

CircuitDesign

SystemDesign

Simulation& Analysis

LVS/DRC

Extraction

With intense time-to-market pressures, our

designers need proven design ows that work

seamlessly and Microwave Ofce flls this need.

Dr. Simon Mahon, Director o MMIC Design

Mimix Broadband, Inc.

Microwave Ofce design suite is the industrys astest growing RF/microwave design

platormand or good reason. Its user-experience is incomparable as it seamlessly

integrates powerul, innovative tools and technologies so that you can bring your

high-requency designs to lie in the shortest time possible and with great exibility.

From design capture and synthesis to simulation, optimization, layout, extraction, and

verifcation, the Microwave Ofce design environment delivers the highest levels o

simulation accuracy and speed, along with the unique ability to seamlessly integrate

third-party point tools.

PRODUCTIVITy-FOCUSED DESIGN FLOW

Windows UI: simply an elegant interace Since the company was ounded in 1994,

AWRs mission has been simple: to provide a superior high-requency design ow,

whether youre learning a new capability or preparing a fnal design or the oundry. Every

element o the Microwave Ofce sotware is so well integrated its easy to orget that

working behind the scenes is exceptionally powerul design sotware.

Unifed Data Model: schematic and layout The cornerstone o AWRs design

ow, our single, object-oriented database is synchronized at its core, within

the database, not through multiple layers o sotware and translators.

Whether youre driving the design rom the schematic, simulation, or

layout, the Microwave Ofce design platorm provides everything you

need to take an idea rom concept through simulation and directly to

physical implementationall in one platorm.

Multi-technology PDKs: real-world ready Ready or todays multi-

technology designs, the Microwave Ofce design environment

embraces the reality o a multi-technology design environment and

simultaneously addresses chip, package, and board. Enabling multi-

technology PDKs, Microwave Ofce sotware can handle the toughest

o IC, package, and module design, as well as printed circuit board

integrationindividually or together, its your choice.

USER-FLEXIBLE DESIGN ENVIRONMENT

AWR believes that you, our customer, should be able to readily and easily integrate

point tools rom third-party vendors in order to provide you with a user-exible designenvironment that provides or the most complete solution at dierent stages o the

design process.

EM Socket: seamlessly integrate third-party vendor EM point tools AWRs EM

Socket enables you to integrate popular EM solvers into the AWR Design Environment

without leaving the Microwave Ofce sotware environment. Choose tools rom EM

vendors like CST, Sonnet, and more. Additionally, you have access to AWRs proprietary

Xmodels discontinuity models that use the results o ull-wave EM parameterized

solutions or ast, accurate and efcient tuning, optimization, and yield analysis.

Advancing the State

o High-Frequency

Design Automation

Much more than a design tool, Microwave

Ofce sotware is a complete design ow

oering all o the essential technologies:

linear and nonlinear circuit simulators,

EM analysis tools, layout-vs.-schematic

checks, statistical design capabilities, and

parametric cell libraries with built-in DRC.

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Microwave Ofce sotware is the ideal platorm or MMIC design. Our Unifed Data Model

with APLAC and ACE speeds design through to verifcation.

SiGe and GaAs PHEMT power amplifer

co-designed with a our-layer module.

Wizards: plug-and-play unctionality Choose rom a variety o add-ins available rom

AWR to expand the uncitionality o your Microwave Ofce design platorm, such as

iFilter lumped and distributed flter synthesis, TestWave test and measurement

integration, and/or Ampsas Multimatch.

DRC/LVS: signed o approved links to EDA vendors Microwave Ofce DRC and

LVS eatures enable you to access signed o approved DRC/LVS tools such as Mentor

Graphics Calibre and open-source ICED - all are readily and easily orchestrated rom

within the Microwave Ofce design environment.

INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES

All o AWRs sotware tools are continually enhanced to ensure they represent the state-o-the-art in both technology and user-productivity. AWR innovations include:

APLAC Simulation Technology Battle tested and oundry-proven by Nokia mobile

phones or more than a decade, powerul APLAC engines deliver efcient harmonic

balance and time-domain simulators specifcally tailored or large-scale and extremely

nonlinear designs. APLAC harmonic balance simulation is enhanced urther by patent-

pending Multi-Rate Harmonic Balance (MRHB) technology.

ACE Automated Circuit Extraction Technology

ACE technology dramatically reduces the time

required to perorm initial modeling o complex

interconnects by using layout-based models orcircuit extraction - automating identifcation o

transmission lines rom layout and partitioning

these structures into pre-existing models.

Intelligent Net (iNet) Technology iNet tailors

timing-driven and wire-driven digital design to

high-requency design. It enhances accurate RF

interconnect modeling and analysis throughout

the design process, reducing/eliminating

iterations and ensuring frst-pass success.

AXIEM 3D Planar EM Technology AXIEMtransorms RF and microwave design

by enabling EM analysis to become an upront

design diagnostic utility rather than a

pure back-end post-verifcation tool. Tailored

or 3D high-requency planar components (ICs,

antennas, and PCBs), AXIEM technology delivers

exceptionally accurate EM simulation thats ast

and efcient or even the most complex designs.

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Microwave Ofce in the Design Process

Linear and nonlinear circuit simulation

EM analysis

Co-simulation with system tools

Statistical design and design centering

Link to back-end DRC/LVS and/or PCB tools

Features at a Glance

APLAC RF harmonic balance or large-scale and highly nonlinear designs

APLAC advanced high-perormance solvers (optional) including transient-

assisted harmonic balance, multi-rate harmonic balance and transient/

time-domain

ACE automatic circuit extraction technology or interconnect modeling

AXIEM planar 3D EM analysis (optional) or upront design

Nonlinear behavioral modeling support or various T&M frms

iNet RF interconnect modeling and analysis

Multi-PDK support to analyze/design IC, package and PCB simultaneously

Proprietary Xmodels available through EM Socket

EMSight including support or multi-core PCs

EM Socket interace or integration with third-party EM tools

ERC/DRC/LVS capabilities including tools such as Calibre and ICED

Seamless integration with Visual System Simulator design suite or system

co-simulation

USA

Corporate Headquarters

AWR Corporation

1960 E. Grand Avenue, Suite 430

El Segundo, CA 90245

+1 310 726 3000

+1 310 726 3005 (ax)

Japan

AWR Japan KK

Level 5, 711 Building

7-11-18 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku

Tokyo 160-0023 Japan

+81 3 5937 4803

Korea

AWR Korea Co. Ltd.

B-1412, Intellige-II, 24 Jeongja-dong,

Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si,

Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, 463-811

+82.31.603.7772~3

UK

AWR UK

2 Hunting Gate

Hitchin, Herts

SG4 0TJ, UK

+44 (0) 1462 428 428

Finland

AWR APLAC

Lars Sonckin kaari 16

FI-02600 Espoo, Finland

+358 10 834 5900

France

AWR France

140 Avenue Champs Elysees

75008 Paris, France

+33 1 70 36 19 63

Copyright 2010 AWR Corporation. All rights reserved. AWR, the AWR logo, Microwave Ofce, and APLAC areregistered trademarks and Visual System Simulator, AXIEM, ACE, AWR Design Environment, EMSight, EM Socket,iNet, iFilter, MRHB, Unifed Data Model, and TestWave are trademarks o AWR Corporation.All others are property o their respective holders.

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