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AWR Microwave Office 2 www.cadence.com/go/awr Product Strengths Design Entry The intuitive user interface is tailored to provide project management and design entry for high-frequency circuits, enabling designers to quickly build networks from a comprehensive library of RF-aware components. The library supports parameterization for tuning/optimization and hierarchical design with circuit, system, and EM co-simu- lation, simulation controls, and result graphs for standard and user-customized RF/microwave measurements. Automation Powerful automation features expedite design tasks and manage network and measurement data, including labor- saving wizards to import PCB layout and/or OpenAccess schematic information from third-party tools, as well as an easy-to-use application programming interface (API) and scripting functionality to support customization and user-defined automation. Load-Pull Analysis Amplifier input/output matching circuits can be readily developed using complex swept load-pull data sets based on either measured or simulated data. Performance contours include available output power, gain, power-added efficiency (PAE), two-tone intermodulation distortion, and other key amplifier performance metrics. Every designer faces a choice during the design cycle: do I believe the simulation results displayed by the software, or not? I trusted the predictions and, thanks to AWR Microwave Office, the new design worked perfectly. The performance we achieved is unlike any other MMIC ever produced. Christopher Marki, Marki Microwave Simulation Technology The robust AWR APLAC ® harmonic-balance (HB) simulator provides linear and nonlinear circuit analysis with powerful multi-rate HB, transient-assisted HB, and time variant (circuit envelope) analysis, supporting large-scale and highly nonlinear RF/microwave circuits. The AWR AXIEM EM simulator provides the speed and accuracy to characterize and optimize passive structures, transmission lines, planar antennas, and large (more than 100K unknowns) patch arrays. The AWR Analyst simulator helps accelerate high-fre- quency product development from early physical design characterization through to full 3DEM verification. Its 3D finite element solver provides fast and accurate EM analysis of interconnects such as bondwires, vias/via fencing, and ball grids. Synthesis and Design Assistance Powerful synthesis modules and design assist wizards accelerate design starts that generate impedance-matching networks from vendor libraries and foundry-authorized PDKs for PCB and MMIC designs based on user-specified RF/ microwave performance criteria. Synthesized filters, impedance matching, mixer, and passive component networks are available for further refinement, optimization, EM verification, and physical design in AWR Microwave Office software. Features Highlights f Schematic/Layout – Synchronous schematic/layout design entry with industry-leading tuning f APLAC – Linear and nonlinear harmonic-balance circuit simulation f EM Analysis – Fully integrated electromagnetic (EM) with AWR AXIEM and AWR Analyst tools f Load-Pull – State-of-the-art load-pull analysis with harmonic and video-band tuning f Stability – New fast, rigorous loop circuit envelope analysis for multi-stage and balanced amplifier stability f DRC/LVS – Design rule checking/layout vs. schematic