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AWR Software 12 www.cadence.com/go/awr Applications and Technologies O n-Chip Passive Successful passive component design focuses on reducing the footprint, costs, and associated insertion losses, while providing increased power-handling capabilities. Capture the broadband performance of IC layout and on-chip passives by accurately simulating the electrical behavior resulting from die-level vias, tapered lines, spiral inductors, and other passive semiconductor structures. Define Analyst EM structures from extruded 2D shapes and vias as conductors or dielectrics. Passive component performance such as frequency-dependent impedance/reactance or quality factor (Q factor) can be determined. IC, PCB, and Packaging The advanced solver technology provides fast and accurate analysis of the 3D structures/interconnects within today's complex high-frequency electronics. Simulate advanced package and board interconnects, including air bridges, bondwires, bumps, and solder balls between the die and its package or the package and its board with 3DEM accuracy, improving end-product performance. Analyst software can simulate the response of finite (area) dielectric structures and should be used over a planar EM solver when the RF behavior of metal interconnects and distributed compo- nents may be impacted by proximity to the edge of a substrate. Antennas and Connectors Arbitrary 3D structures such as horn and helix antennas can be modeled to extract S-parameters for voltage stand- ing-wave ratio (VSWR), return loss, and radiation patterns. A variety of pre-designed common RF/microwave parts such as connectors and antennas are included and, in addition, users can create custom PCells as needed with the Analyst 3D editor. Simulation and modeling capabilities support additional custom 3D constructs, such as bondwires, ball grid arrays, tapered vias, and more. New peak antenna measurements support performance metrics such as total radiated power, or power in a particular polarization across the "cut" of a radiation pattern as a function of swept frequency or other user-defined swept parameters. We chose AWR software because of the proven success of AntSyn and Analyst. The resulting designs worked from the very start and removed the iteration and experimentation usually required in antenna design efforts. Mark Ross, Striiv