AWR Datasheets

RF to mmWave Design for Systems Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design and computational expertise, using its Intelligent System Design strategy to turn design concepts into reality. Cadence customers are the world's most creative and innovative companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications. www.cadence.com © 2021 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide. Cadence, the Cadence logo, and the other Cadence marks found at www.cadence.com/go/trademarks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 16708 06/21 SA/VY/PDF Additional Analysis and Productivity Enhancements Environment/Automation Circuit Simulation EM Simulation System Simulation Physical Design/Layout • Job scheduler now supports multiple simul- taneous remote queues, enabling designers to run long circuit simulation or optimization jobs in parallel, either locally or remotely, including Linux clusters • Version control man- ages group design proj- ects, allowing group design data management of complex, multi-func- tion designs and pre- vents unintentional overwriting when multi- ple users edit the same file in central repository • New Python scripting intellisense support • Robust parallel simplex optimizers with variable step size provide more flexibility and greater resistant to local minima • Microwave Office soft- ware now supports multiple versions of a PDK within the same project • Support for new circuit models and simulation measurements • AXIEM: New options to reduce EM data set size • AXIEM solver speed and robustness enhance- ments • Analyst: Improved support for multiple terminal configurations in wave ports, including stability and support for multiple positive termi- nals • Analyst: Expanded frequency modifier settings for index in which the mesh will be adaptively refined • Interconnect system block in software models the effects of transmission line loss, impedance mismatch, and coupling • Enhanced VSS modeling of RF amplifiers in saturation now yields a smoother power output versus power input curve • Frequency multiplier model for both satu- rated output power and spur level, yielding close agreement between time domain, RF budget analysis, and RFI simula- tions • Dynamic voiding auto- matically adds clearance between layout shapes and nets as defined by constraint rules • Net management facilitates identification of net objects in layout and schematic • Connectivity mode enables automatic association of a shape to an overlapping net

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