AWR Design Environment Platform

A platform for circuit, system, and EM simulation for RF/microwave
product development

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AWR Design Environment Platform
Solve Your Toughest RF Design Challenges

Amplifiers

Accelerate RF amplifier development with robust harmonic-balance (HB) simulation for fast and accurate nonlinear circuit simulation, harmonic load-pull and nonlinear stability analysis, in-design EM and thermal analysis, and highly accurate device/circuit element models.

Antennas

Develop high-performance antennas and phased array systems for next-generation sensors, radars, and communication systems with integrated planar and 3D EM technologies, parametric optimization, and circuit co-simulation. Simulate and maximize antenna metrics such as gain, return loss, radiation efficiency, and currents, and visualize 2D/3D far-field antenna patterns.

Communications

Meet 5G/6G technology demands such as MIMO and beamforming antenna arrays, mmWave spectrum use, and carrier aggregation. VSS software supports time and frequency domain system-level simulation, budget and spurious heritage analysis, RF planning and end-to-end system simulation using RF and signal processing behavioral models to capture the impact of front-end electronics, channel propagation, and baseband design on digitally modulated signals.

Filters

Designing form-factor filter solutions with low passband insertion loss and sufficient stopband rejection requires a design flow that supports filter synthesis through physical realization and verification. Cadence Microwave Office software with iFilter synthesis and Cadence planar and 3D EM technologies address all stages and types of filter development, from lumped-element or distributed filters to more complex multiplexed, high-power, and high-Q cavity filters.

Passive

Successful design of passive components such as couplers, circulators, and attenuators focuses on reducing the device footprint, costs, and associated insertion losses. Integrated within the AWR Design Environment platform, the Cadence AXIEM 3D planar EM analysis software and Clarity 3D Solver provide fast solver technology that readily supports characterizing and optimizing passive components on RF PCBs, modules, glass and ceramic materials, and III-V monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs).

Radar & Sensor Design

Radar and sensor design evolves with advances in antenna array and semiconductor technologies. These applications are driving the need for smaller, cost-effective systems with the reliability and resolution to accurately track the speed, distance, and movement of multiple targets. Accurately representing signal generation, transmission, phased arrays, T/R switching, clutter, noise, jamming, and signal processing enables users to tackle the design challenges and analysis requirements for modern radar systems.

System Simulation Modeling

As a game changer for system development, component specification, and overall design management, VSS communications and radar systems design software lets you perform detailed link budget analysis, spurious heritage checks, and immersive time-domain simulations. With its intuitive interface, you can easily apply behavioral RF models and baseband signal processing to craft optimal system architectures. Plus, its virtual testbenches let you co-simulate key metrics like ACPR, BER, and EVM using Microwave Office software or Virtuoso design IP.

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Microwave Office PCB
Microwave Office PCB enables linear and nonlinear RF circuit design with the robust APLAC HB simulator and its powerful multi-rate HB, transient-assisted HB, and time-variant (circuit envelope) simulation engine, supporting analysis of large-scale and highly nonlinear RF/microwave circuits, such as power amplifiers and mixers (frequency converters). State-of-the-art load-pull analysis with harmonic and video-band tuning generate performance contours including available output power, gain, power-added efficiency (PAE), two-tone intermodulation distortion, and other key amplifier metrics used in the development of input/output matching circuits for optimum performance.
Microwave Office MMIC
Microwave Office MMIC offers a front-to-back MMIC design flow with an innovative user interface and complete integration of design entry, simulation, and physical design tools that enhances engineering productivity and ensures first-pass success with PDKs from a wide range of GaAs, gallium nitride GaN, silicon germanium (SiGe), and CMOS foundry partners. The hierarchical framework supports simulation of diverse MMIC, RFIC, and PCB processes, multi-layer interconnects, embedded passives, and surface-mounted mini-devices found within multi-chip RF modules.
VSS System
VSS System allows design teams to conceptualize and rapidly implement virtual 5G/6G and IoT communication and radar/electronic warfare (EW) systems, investigate new architectures, and study individual component or overall system performance. Design RF-aware systems and perform rigorous link budget design or spurious heritage analysis with RF/microwave behavioral models that incorporate linear and nonlinear performance metrics as well as terminal impedances which can lead to power loss due to component-to-component impedance mismatch. Combine with signal processing blocks to cover end-to-end system performance and communication testbenches for co-simulation with Microwave Office software and/or Virtuoso IP.
Microwave Office Linear
Microwave Office Linear supports design of RF passive components such as filters, couplers, and attenuators, as well as active devices operating under small-signal (AC) conditions such as low noise and buffer amplifiers. The linear configuration provides simulation of S-parameters (Y/Z/H/ABCD), small-signal gain, linear stability, noise figure, return loss/voltage standing wave radio (VSWR), and more, as well as real-time tuning, optimization, and yield analysis.
AWR AXIEM
3D planar EM analysis software that offers fast solver technology to readily characterize and optimize antennas, passive structures, transmission lines, and large planar devices on RF PCBs, modules, LTCCs, MMICs, and RFICs.
AWR Analyst
Arbitrary 3D FEM EM simulation software provides fast and accurate analysis of non-planar structures such as horn and wire-based antennas, waveguide structures, resonant cavities, and component housings, as well as common or complex interconnect technologies such as wire bonds, ball grid arrays, and vias.

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