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AWR Software 11 www.cadence.com/go/awr AWR Analyst Full 3D FEM EM Analysis Software Cadence AWR Analyst arbitrary 3D FEM EM simulation and analysis software within the Cadence AWR Design Environment platform accelerates high-frequency product development from early physical design characterization through to full 3D EM verification. The 3D FEM solver provides fast and accurate EM analysis so engineers can achieve higher performance in less development time for greater first-pass success. AWR Software Platform With the AWR Analyst software, you can detect and diagnose design problems that can cause products to fail performance requirements. A 3DEM simulation fully integrated and readily available within an RF/microwave component design flow enables designers to identify and eliminate potential failures. Access and create libraries of parameterized EM cells (PCells) for common and custom 3D interconnects and passive PCB and IC components that enable reuse. Incorporation of complex structures with a simple drag and place captures true electrical responses throughout the design process. In addition, you can accurately and rapidly characterize interconnect structures, dense circuitry, and antenna structures of all sizes with full 3D FEM solver technology with adaptive volumetric tetrahedral meshing, direct and iterative solvers, and discrete and fast-frequency sweeps. Product Strengths Design Exploration Automatically improve performance and mitigate design problems from unforeseen resonances and coupling between structures with 3D EM parametric studies that support optimization, tuning, and yield analysis. Combine spectral decomposition with remote computing to expedite simulation run times and provide answers faster. 3D Modeling Readily characterize passive 3D components, distributed planar structures, interconnects such as vias and bondwires, complex electronic packaging, and waveguide structures directly within a circuit network. Support for 3D CAD file formats like IGES, STEP, and STL allows designers to perform EM analysis on structures from alternative CAD tools. Optimization and Yield Perform accurate design diagnostics such as yield analysis and optimization for passive components and complex interconnects, capturing true coupling and parasitic effects of circuit topologies that are specified parametrically and/or defined through rules-based shape modifiers/de-featuring. Visualization Plot color-coded currents and electric field strength directly on an analyzed structure to gain insight into component behavior and the source of potential design failure. Simulation Technologies Adaptive Meshing 3D adaptive meshing algorithms use a highly robust volumetric tetrahedron meshing technique to automatically provide accurate results with minimal set-up effort or manual intervention. If necessary, user control of the mesh can be enabled for individual shapes using the 3D editor. Finite Element Analysis The proprietary and state-of-the-art full-wave FEM EM analysis technology within Analyst software supports direct and iterative solvers, as well as discrete and fast-fre- quency sweeps. Developed over many decades, the technology has been optimized for scalability and accuracy. Antenna Analysis Analyze 3D and 2D antennas, including patch antennas and antenna arrays on finite dielectrics, plot near- and far-field radiation patterns and simulate key antenna metrics such as gain, directivity, efficiency, side lobes, return loss, surface currents, and more Features f Layout/Drawing Editor – 2D/3D construction and views f Proprietary FEM Full-Wave technology f Meshing Technology – Automatic and adaptive meshing f Numerous sources and excitations for ports f Visualization and results post - processing f Parametric Studies – Optimization, tuning, and yield analysis f HPC – Multi-core configurations and asynchronous simulation