AWR Datasheets

AWR Software 5 www.cadence.com/go/awr AWR Microwave Office RF and Microwave Circuit Design Software Cadence AWR Microwave Office is used by leading manufacturers to accelerate product development of high-frequency electronics. The intuitive interface, combined with innovative design automation and powerful harmonic-balance circuit simulation, ensures greater engineering productivity and accelerated design cycles. AWR Microwave Office seamlessly interoperates with Cadence AWR VSS system design and Cadence AWR AXIEM and Cadence AWR Analyst EM simulation software tools within the Cadence AWR Design Environment platform to deliver a complete RF and microwave circuit, system, and EM co-simulation environment. AWR Software Platform The AWR proprietary unified database directly links RF-aware schematic capture and design layout to accelerate simulta- neous physical design with electrical simulation. Powerful design automation and assistance tools such as filter, mixer, passive component, transmission line, and matching network synthesis, along with industry-leading load-pull analysis for power amplifier design, provide critical support for all phases of product development. Fast and accurate simulation technology offers robust circuit analysis and design insight, providing the linear/ nonlinear time- and frequency-domain measurements required to properly characterize and optimize high-fre- quency electronics. Comprehensive libraries of high-frequency distributed trans- mission models, surface-mount vendor components, and process design kits from leading MMIC/RFIC foundries enable accurate simulation of designs prior to manufacture, resulting in fewer and faster design iterations. 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 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. 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-frequency product development from early physical design characteri- zation through to full 3DEM verification. Its 3D finite element solver provides fast and accurate EM analysis of intercon- nects 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 imped- ance-matching networks from vendor libraries and found- ry-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 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 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

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