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SOFTWARE SPOTLIGHT Introducing AWR Design Environment V15 Engineering teams addressing performance, integration, and cost/space goals face time-to-market pressures while striving to meet increasingly complex product requirements. Version 15 (V15) of the Cadence AWR Design Environment platform offers new and enhanced technologies that provide greater design efficiency and first-pass success to engineering teams devel- oping or integrating III-V ICs, multi-technology modules, and PCB assemblies for 5G, automotive, and aerospace/defense applications. Engineering productivity is improved with new analyses, faster and higher-capacity simulation technologies, time-saving design automation, and 5G NR compliant testbenches that support PA and antenna/array design, EM modeling, and RF/ microwave integration across heterogenous technologies. The V15 Advantage AWR Design Environment V15 software offers key new and improved technologies that provide greater design efficiency and first-pass success to engineering teams developing and integrating III-V and Si ICs, multi-technology modules, and PCB assemblies. Engineering productivity is improved with new analyses, faster and higher capacity simulation technologies, time-saving design automation, and 5G NR-compliant testbenches that support PA and antenna/array design, EM modeling, and RF/ microwave integration across heterogenous technologies. Design Environment and Automation New design environment and automation features help individual engineers and engineering teams be more efficient in their design entry, data display, and project management. Designers can adjust optimization goals directly from response plots, route design rule-compliant intelligent nets (iNets) in real-time, import Gerber-based layout designs into AWR Design Environment software for EM analysis, and provide more user capabilities for the design task at hand. Synthesis Accelerates RF Designs The characteristic impedance and electrical length (delay) of transmission lines represent two important design parameters used to control the frequency-dependent circuit response of passive RF/microwave circuits. Using AWR V15 software, designers can now directly synthesize the physical attributes (width, length) of microstrip, stripline, or coplanar waveguide structures for a given substrate based on the desired electrical characteristics. Likewise, the electrical characteristics can be calculated directly from the physical properties of the single or edge-coupled transmission line placed in the schematic. Synthesis of circuit model parameters provides vital data for generating accurate layout of these transmission lines without having to invoke the transmission line calculator and manually transfer the results into the transmission line property dialog box. AWR Design Environment V15 Highlights Environment/ Automation Circuit Simulation EM Simulation System Simulation Physical Design/ Layout Load-pull contours on rectangular plots Template-based mea- surements Add/edit optimization goals directly on graphs Edit axes directly on plots Color-coded markers Equation grouping Fast, rigorous stability analysis Low-frequency load- pull for two-tone exci- tations Integrated TX-Line calculator/synthesis Network synthesis with PDK/vendor compo- nents Faster, more robust adaptive meshing Fast, accurate DC solver Peak antenna measure- ments Preconfigured 5G NR testbenches libraries Phased array MIMO bus support PA linearization with digital predistortion (DPD) Real-time DRC compli- ant iNets routing guides Mixed physical units/ grid support Two-click data entry mode Resize layout objects with property page editing Gerber file import for EM analysis 5 www.cadence.com/go/awr