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With intense time-to-market pressures, our
designers need proven design fl ows that work
seamlessly and Microwave Offi ce fi lls this need.
Dr. Simon Mahon, Mimix Broadband
AWR is synonymous with innovation. Developed by monolithic microwave
integrated circuit (MMIC) design engineers who knew there had to be a better way,
our fl agship Microwave Offi ce® design environment has forever changed the way
that RF/microwave ideas become MMIC reality. What differentiates us from the
competition? A complete design fl ow that combines cutting edge technologies that
are easy to use, coupled with the ability to integrate your favorite tools for each
part of the design process.
The AWR Design Environment™ (AWRDE), with its revolutionary Unifi ed
Data Model™ (UDM), is such a unique, stable foundation that while others
are patching and updating legacy platforms, we are able to invest our
development resources in creating new technologies that enable designers
to solve the latest, most challenging problems quickly and accurately. Nearly
every wireless, microwave, or millimeter-wave product on the market today
incorporates components designed with AWR technology. With our winning
combination of innovation and ease-of-use, it’s no wonder our Microwave Offi ce
design suite is the industry’s fastest growing software platform for MMIC design.
AWR enables you to bring your designs to life in the shortest time and with the
greatest fl exibility—positively impacting your bottom line!
THE AWR MMIC DESIGN FLOW ADVANTAGE
The Microwave Offi ce MMIC design fl ow delivers the industry’s most innovative
tools, most intuitive user interface, and the most complete integration with third
party technologies—enabling engineers to solve tough, modern design problems
and maintain their competitive advantage against fi erce competition.
The AWR user environment is not just a collection of tools and technology but
rather an integrated, cohesive design fl ow engineered to maximize your productivity
and minimize the need for training and re-training, manual intervention, and time.
Leading Edge MMIC PDKs Process design kits (PDKs) are the cornerstone of
any MMIC EDA fl ow. AWR works with foundries the same way we work with our
customers: we help them solve problems. We have collaborative relationships
with the world’s top foundries, and we work side-by-side with them to develop
and maintain leading edge PDKs for start-of-the-art design. The result is a whole
new class of PDKs supporting concurrent electrical-physical co-design in a single
environment, simultaneous frequency-time domain simulation support, and single
schematic/single environment verifi cation. AWR’s MMIC PDKs reduce risk and
help you deliver production-ready designs from a streamlined fl ow.
Early Design Flaw Identifi cation Microwave Offi ce software fl ow and features were
not developed in a vacuum for software’s sake but to enable design engineering
of real products --and design engineering is all about robust design! ACE™ circuit
extraction combined with Intelligent net™ (iNets) schematic-defi ned routing speeds
your ability to model complex interconnects early in the design fl ow, without using
time-consuming electromagnetic (EM), so you can quickly capture and debug
Advancing the State of High-Frequency Design Automation
Much more than a design tool, Microwave
Offi ce software is a complete design fl ow
offering all of the essential technologies:
linear and nonlinear circuit simulators,
EM analysis tools, layout-vs.-schematic
checks, statistical design capabilities, and
parametric cell libraries with built-in DRC.
With thousands of designs, AWR’s Unifi ed Data Model is the industry’s most modern
and stable platform for concurrent MMIC design. Linear and nonlinear, frequency- or
time-domain, layout, EM, EXTRACTion, and thru verifi cation, the UDM keeps your
design synchronized thereby giving most designers 50% better design cycle time
over other fl ows.
Microwave Offi ce software is renowned
for its speed and convergence, allowing
MMIC designers to power through the
toughtest amplifi er simulations, even
simulating changes during layout and
verifi cation.
critical couplings early in the fl ow. Circuit-based annotations provide immediate,
simulated-feedback for current density and critical voltages, pin-pointing reliability
issues long before layout. And once you get into layout, AWR’s unique bridge
code makes certain that vias are properly inserted from any routed line to critical
components, like metal insulator metal capacitors (MIM caps), eliminating diffi cult-
to-fi nd open- and short-circuits that are all too plentiful in other layout tools.
USER-FLEXIBLE DESIGN ENVIRONMENT
While other software tools hold customers captive to their way of doing things,
AWR has built Microwave Offi ce software from the ground up based on the
concept of a user-fl exible environment that encourages additional and alternative
solutions to enable more successful MMIC design. Your fl ow demands the fl exibility
to continue using, or to add third-party point tools and to integrate to adjacent
fl ows like test or enterprise printed circuit board (PCB). All of these requirements
are possible with the Microwave Offi ce MMIC design fl ow. In addition, custom in-
house software can be added through industry-standard interfaces, ensuring the
inclusion of all your intellectual property and giving you a leg up on the competition.
Modeling One model, many simulators has been an impossible goal for many decades,
especially if both time- and frequency-domain simulation needs to be supported. AWR
has made it a reality with Verilog-A support for all our
simulators providing you with the ultimate in portability
for nonlinear steady-state and transient design
needs. For greater model security, a C++ interface
is available for both electrical simulation models and
physical ‘pCells’.
EM Socket™ The Microwave Offi ce EM Socket
interface is unique technology developed by AWR to
enable integration with a variety of EM point tools. In
addition, we provide fast, accurate, and effi cient EM
analysis through access to our proprietary X-models™
discontinuity models, as well as to our own EM
technologies of EMSight™, AXIEM™ and the recently
acquired Analyst™.
Verifi cation Socket™ Microwave Offi ce DRC and
layout vs. schematic (LVS) features enable you to
access “signed off/approved” DRC/LVS tools such
as Mentor Graphics’ Calibre® and ICED, which can
be easily orchestrated from within the Microwave
Offi ce environment. And for users of TriQuint PDKs,
the mailDRC option further expedites these steps.
A HOST OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
We’ve packed more unique innovations into
Microwave Offi ce software in the last dozen years
than all of our competitors combined. And, because
our developers are MMIC designers themselves, our
technologies are not just innovations for innovations’
sake, but key, unique algorithms, technologies and
tools specifi cally requested by customers to help
them overcome tough design issues, save design
time, and eliminate costly respins.
APLAC® harmonic balance and transient The incomparable APLAC circuit
simulator combines linear and nonlinear frequency-domain simulation with time-
domain transient. Renowned for its speed and convergence on the toughest
problems, APLAC converges in minutes where others take hours, if, in fact, they
converge at all.
ACE automated circuit extraction technology Diagnosing critical couplings is
a breeze with ACE, AWR’s unique automated circuit extraction technology. By
creating parameterized netlists using distributed models, many with highly optimized
EM solvers built right in, ACE powers through your layout to create the same
models you would have created in the schematic, but 10,000x faster than any
alternative approach.
iNet technology, X-models and bridge code MMIC interconnects are not
just dumb metal in the design; they are the design. Most layout tools treat
interconnects as a “don’t care” and capture/simulate environments make them
the problem bain of existence EM solvers. iNets, X-models and bridge code, all
powerful, industry-fi rst technologies from AWR, address interconnects right up
front in the schematic and concurrently and dynamically synchronize them with
the rest of the fl ow: layout, EM, and verifi cation. These technologies provide
better modeling and reduced verifi cation time for interconnects earlier in the
fl ow, when it’s easier and less costly to fi nd and fi x design issues.
AXIEM 3D planar EM technology The revolutionary AXIEM product is the
industry’s fi rst solver to enable the user to incrementally trade-off speed for
accuracy from DC through millimeter wave. AXIEM reduces cycle time with its
adjustable speed and accuracy, and saves infrastructure costs because it is the
only 3D planar EM solver you need.
AXIEM simulation results are highly accurate AXIEM simulation results are highly accurate
compared to measured data. The results compared to measured data. The results
show additional accuracy when the actual show additional accuracy when the actual
copper thickness was taken into account. copper thickness was taken into account.
(Courtesy of Legrand)(Courtesy of Legrand)
AWR’s innovative APLAC harmonic balance engine -
standard feature of Microwave Offi ce design environment.
“The effi ciency gained in the design fl ow enables our designers to consider effects in
much more detail than we were ever able to do before in the timeframe available.
The result has been superior product performance at an affordable price in a very
demanding market.”
Anritsu Company
“The results of the AXIEM simulation proved to be highly accurate when compared
to the measured results. We were also excited about AXIEM’s potential to cut our
design time, streamline our fl ow, and positively impact our bottom line.”
Legrand
“I’ve found Microwave Offi ce to be unique among EDA tools for its ability to make the
design process comparatively simple. Measurements we’ve made on the devices we
received from TriQuint agree extremely well with the Microwave Offi ce simulation. In
short, we got back exactly what we hoped for.”
Meridian Medical Systems
“APLAC has been widely used in Nokia’s RF design for years. We strongly believe
APLAC offers one of the most advanced analog design platforms available, and plays
a crucial role in helping us live up to our ‘right the fi rst time’ design philosophy.”
Nokia
“AWR’s solution is unique because the company’s tool development is driven by
customer demand. It offers all the features that are absolutely necessary for an
effective product design. The AWR design fl ow, along with excellent customer
support, is a winning combination.”
Sennheiser electronic GmBH & Co.KG
“The seamless integration of Microwave Offi ce and VSS software gave me more
meaningful results because I was able to simulate my power amplifi er circuit
design’s response to the EDGE/GSM modulated input signal with one design
platform. I used Microwave Offi ce and VSS from circuit concept all the way through
to product completion. I was exceptionally happy with the technical quality of the
ACPR and EVM simulation results.”
TriQuint Semiconductor
customer comments
AWR GaAs Foundry Partners Cree Inc.
Global Communications Semiconductors (GCS)
Northrop Grumman Space Technology
OMMIC
RFMD
TriQuint Semiconductor
United Monolithic Semiconductors (UMS)
WIN Semiconductors
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