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Microwave

Ofce

For MMICs

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AWR is synonymous with innovation. Developed by monolithic microwave integrated

circuit (MMIC) design engineers who knew there had to be a better way, our

agship Microwave Ofce design environment has orever changed the way that

RF/microwave ideas become MMIC reality. What dierentiates us rom the

competition? A complete design ow that combines cutting edge technologies that

are easy to use, coupled with the ability to integrate your avorite tools or each

part o the design process.

The AWR Design Environment (AWRDE), with its revolutionary Unifed Data

Model (UDM), is such a unique, stable oundation that while others are patching

and updating legacy platorms, we are able to invest our development resources

in creating new technologies that enable designers to solve the latest, mostchallenging problems quickly and accurately. Nearly every wireless, microwave, or

millimeter-wave product on the market today incorporates components designed

with AWR technology. With our winning combination o innovation and ease-o-

use, its no wonder our Microwave Ofce design suite is the industrys astest

growing sotware platorm or MMIC design. AWR enables you to bring your

designs to lie in the shortest time and with the greatest exibilitypositively

impacting your bottom line!

THE AWR MMIC DESIGN FLOW ADVANTAGE

The Microwave Ofce MMIC design ow delivers the industrys most innovative

tools, most intuitive user interace, and the most complete integration with thirdparty technologiesenabling engineers to solve tough, modern design problems

and maintain their competitive advantage against ferce competition.

The AWR user environment is not just a collection o tools and technology but

rather an integrated, cohesive design ow engineered to maximize your productivity

and minimize the need or training and re-training, manual intervention, and time.

Leading Edge MMIC PDKs Process design kits (PDKs) are the cornerstone o

any MMIC EDA ow. AWR works with oundries the same way we work with our

customers: we help them solve problems. We have collaborative relationships

with the worlds top oundries, and we work side-by-side with them to develop

and maintain leading edge PDKs or start-o-the-art design. The result is a wholenew class o PDKs supporting concurrent electrical-physical co-design in a single

environment, simultaneous requency-time domain simulation support, and single

schematic/single environment verifcation. AWRs MMIC PDKs reduce risk and

help you deliver production-ready designs rom a streamlined ow.

Early Design Flaw Identifcation Microwave Ofce sotware ow and eatures

were not developed in a vacuum or sotwares sake but to enable design

engineering o real products --and design engineering is all about robust design!

ACE circuit extraction combined with Intelligent net (iNets) schematic-defned

routing speeds your ability to model complex interconnects early in the design ow,

Layout

CircuitDesign

SystemDesign

Simulation& Analysis

LVS/DRC

Extraction

Much more than a design tool, Microwave

Ofce software is a complete design ow

offering all of 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.

With intense time-to-market pressures, our

designers need proven design ows that work

seamlessly and Microwave Ofce lls this need.

Dr. Simon Mahon, Director of MMIC Design

Mimix Broadband, Inc.

Advancing the State

of High-Frequency

Design Automation

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With thousands of designs, AWRs Unied Data Model is the industrys most modern

and stable platform for concurrent MMIC design. Linear and nonlinear, frequency- or

time-domain, layout, EM, EXTRACTion, and thru verication, the UDM keeps your

design synchronized thereby giving most designers 50% better design cycle time

over other ows.

Microwave Ofce software is renowned

for its speed and convergence, allowing

MMIC designers to power through the

toughtest amplier simulations, even

simulating changes during layout and

verication.

without using time-consuming electromagnetic (EM), so you can quickly capture

and debug critical couplings early in the ow. Circuit-based annotations provide

immediate, simulated-eedback or current density and critical voltages, pin-pointing

reliability issues long beore layout. And once you get into layout, AWRs unique

bridge code makes certain that vias are properly inserted rom any routed line to

critical components, like metal insulator metal capacitors (MIM caps), eliminating

difcult-to-fnd open- and short-circuits that are all too plentiul in other layout tools

USER-FLEXIBLE DESIGN ENVIRONMENT

While other sotware tools hold customers captive to their way o doing things,

AWR has built Microwave Ofce sotware rom the ground up based on the

concept o a user-exible environment that encourages additional and alternative

solutions to enable more successul MMIC design. Your ow demands the exibility

to continue using, or to add third-party point tools and to integrate to adjacent

ows like test or enterprise printed circuit board (PCB). All o these requirements

are possible with the Microwave Ofce MMIC design ow. In addition, custom in-

house sotware can be added through industry-standard interaces, ensuring the

inclusion o all your intellectual property and giving you a leg up on the competition.

Modeling One model, many simulators has been an impossible goal or many decades,

especially i both time- and requency-domain simulation needs to be supported. AWR

has made it a reality with Verilog-A support or all our

simulators providing you with the ultimate in portability

or nonlinear steady-state and transient design

needs. For greater model security, a C++ interace

is available or both electrical simulation models and

physical pCells.

EM Socket The Microwave Ofce EM Socket

interace is unique technology developed by AWR to

enable integration with a variety o EM point tools. In

addition, we provide ast, accurate, and efcient EM

analysis through access to our proprietary X-models

discontinuity models, as well as to our own EM

technologies o EMSight and AXIEM

Verifcation Socket Microwave Ofce DRC and

layout vs. schematic (LVS) eatures enable you to

access signed o/approved DRC/LVS tools such

as Mentor Graphics Calibre and ICED, which can

be easily orchestrated rom within the Microwave

Ofce environment. And or users o TriQuint PDKs,

the mailDRC option urther expedites these steps.

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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

www.awrcorp.comwww.awr.tv

Copyright 2010 AWR Corporation. All rights reserved. AWR and the AWR logo, Microwave Ofceand APLAC are registered trademarks and Visual System Simulator, AXIEM, ACE, Analyst, AWR DesignEnvironment, Unifed Data Model, EMSight, Intelligent Net, and X-model are trademarks o AWR Corporation.All others are the property o their respective holders.

A HOST OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES

APLAC harmonic balance and transient The incomparable APLAC circuit

simulator combines linear and nonlinear requency-domain simulation with

time-domain transient. Renowned or its speed and convergence on the

toughest problems, APLAC converges in minutes where others take hours.

ACE automated circuit extraction technology Diagnosing critical couplings

is a breeze with ACE. By creating parameterized netlists using distributed

models, many with highly optimized EM solvers built right in, ACE powers

through your layout to create the same models you would have created in the

schematic, but 10,000x aster than any alternative approach.

iNet technology, X-models and bridge code MMIC interconnects arenot just dumb metal in the design; they are the design. Most layout

tools treat interconnects as a dont care and capture/simulate

environments make them the problem bain o existence EM

solvers. iNets, X-models and bridge code, all powerul,

industry-frst technologies rom AWR, address interconnects

right up ront in the schematic and concurrently and

dynamically synchronize them with the rest o the ow:

layout, EM, and verifcation. These technologies provide

better modeling and reduced verifcation time or

interconnects earlier in the ow, when its easier and less

costly to fnd and fx design issues.

AXIEM 3D planar EM technology The revolutionary AXIEM

product is the industrys frst solver to enable the user to

incrementally trade-o speed or accuracy rom DC through

millimeter wave. AXIEM reduces cycle time with its adjustable speed and

accuracy, and saves inrastructure costs because it is the only 3D planar EM

solver you need.

BR-MWO-MMIC-2010.5.10

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