Microwave

Office®
 Advancing the State With intense time-to-market pressures, our
of High-Frequency designers need proven design flows that work
Design Automation seamlessly and Microwave Office fills this need.

Dr. Simon Mahon, Director of MMIC Design

Mimix Broadband, Inc.

Microwave Office design suite is the industry’s fastest growing RF/microwave design
platform—and for good reason. Its user-experience is incomparable as it seamlessly
integrates powerful, innovative tools and technologies so that you can bring your
high-frequency designs to life in the shortest time possible and with great flexibility.
From design capture and synthesis to simulation, optimization, layout, extraction, and
verification, the Microwave Office design environment delivers the highest levels of
simulation accuracy and speed, along with the unique ability to seamlessly integrate
third-party point tools.

Productivity-focused Design Flow

Windows UI: simply an elegant interface Since the company was founded in 1994,
AWR’s mission has been simple: to provide a superior “high-frequency design flow,”
whether you’re learning a new capability or preparing a final design for the foundry. Every
element of the Microwave Office software is so well integrated it’s easy to forget that
System working behind the scenes is exceptionally powerful design software.
Design
Unified Data Model™: schematic and layout The cornerstone of AWR’s design
flow, our single, object-oriented database is synchronized at its core, within
the database, not through multiple layers of software and translators.
Whether you’re driving the design from the schematic, simulation, or
layout, the Microwave Office design platform provides everything you
Circuit
Design need to take an idea from concept through simulation and directly to
physical implementation—all in one platform.
LVS/DRC
Multi-technology PDKs: real-world ready Ready for today’s multi-
technology designs, the Microwave Office design environment
embraces the reality of a multi-technology design environment and
simultaneously addresses chip, package, and board. Enabling multi-
technology PDKs, Microwave Office software can handle the toughest
Simulation of IC, package, and module design, as well as printed circuit board
Extraction & Analysis integration—individually or together, it’s your choice.

User-flexible Design Environment

Layout
Much more than a design tool, Microwave
Office software is a complete design flow
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.
AWR believes that you, our customer, should be able to readily and easily integrate
point tools from third-party vendors in order to provide you with a user-flexible design
environment that provides for the most complete solution at different stages of the
design process.
EM Socket™: seamlessly integrate third-party vendor EM point tools AWR’s EM
Socket enables you to integrate popular EM solvers into the AWR Design Environment™—
without leaving the Microwave Office software environment. Choose tools from EM
vendors like CST, Sonnet, and more. Additionally, you have access to AWR’s proprietary
Xmodels’ discontinuity models that use the results of full-wave EM parameterized
solutions for fast, accurate and efficient tuning, optimization, and yield analysis.
Wizards: plug-and-play functionality Choose from a variety of add-ins available from SiGe and GaAs PHEMT power amplifier
AWR to expand the funcitionality of your Microwave Office design platform, such as co-designed with a four-layer module.
iFilter™ lumped and distributed filter synthesis, TestWave™ test and measurement
integration, and/or Ampsa’s Multimatch.

DRC/LVS: “signed off” approved links to EDA vendors Microwave Office DRC and
LVS features enable you to access “signed off” approved DRC/LVS tools such as Mentor
Graphics’ Calibre® and open-source ICED - all are readily and easily orchestrated from
within the Microwave Office design environment.

Innovative Technologies
All of AWR’s software tools are continually enhanced to ensure they represent the state-
of-the-art in both technology and user-productivity. AWR innovations include:

APLAC® Simulation Technology “Battle tested” and foundry-proven by Nokia® mobile

phones for more than a decade, powerful APLAC engines deliver efficient harmonic
balance and time-domain simulators specifically tailored for large-scale and extremely
nonlinear designs. APLAC harmonic balance simulation is enhanced further by patent-
pending Multi-Rate Harmonic Balance (MRHB™) technology.

ACE™ Automated Circuit Extraction Technology

ACE technology dramatically reduces the time
required to perform initial modeling of complex
interconnects by using layout-based models for
circuit extraction - automating identification of
transmission lines from layout and partitioning
these structures into pre-existing models.

Intelligent Net (iNet™) Technology iNet tailors

timing-driven and wire-driven digital design to
high-frequency design. It enhances accurate RF
interconnect modeling and analysis throughout
the design process, reducing/eliminating
iterations and ensuring first-pass success.

AXIEM™ 3D Planar EM Technology AXIEM

transforms RF and microwave design
by enabling EM analysis to become an upfront
design diagnostic utility rather than a
pure back-end post-verification tool. Tailored Microwave Office software is the ideal platform for MMIC design. Our Unified Data Model
for 3D high-frequency planar components (ICs, with APLAC and ACE speeds design through to verification.
antennas, and PCBs), AXIEM technology delivers
exceptionally accurate EM simulation that’s fast
and efficient for even the most complex designs.
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Microwave Office in the Design Process

USA   Linear and nonlinear circuit simulation
Corporate Headquarters   EM analysis
AWR Corporation   Co-simulation with system tools
1960 E. Grand Avenue, Suite 430   Statistical design and design centering
El Segundo, CA 90245
  Link to back-end DRC/LVS and/or PCB tools
+1 310 726 3000
+1 310 726 3005 (fax) Features at a Glance
 APLAC RF harmonic balance for large-scale and highly nonlinear designs
Japan
 APLAC advanced high-performance solvers (optional) including transient-
AWR Japan KK assisted harmonic balance, multi-rate harmonic balance and transient/
Level 5, 711 Building time-domain
7-11-18 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku   ACE automatic circuit extraction technology for interconnect modeling
Tokyo 160-0023 Japan   AXIEM planar 3D EM analysis (optional) for upfront design
+81 3 5937 4803   Nonlinear behavioral modeling support for various T&M firms

Korea
AWR Korea Co. Ltd.
B-1412, Intellige-II, 24 Jeongja-dong,
Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si,
Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, 463-811
+82.31.603.7772~3

UK
AWR UK
2 Hunting Gate
Hitchin, Herts
SG4 0TJ, UK
+44 (0) 1462 428 428
  iNet RF interconnect modeling and analysis
Finland
  Multi-PDK support to analyze/design IC, package and PCB simultaneously
AWR – APLAC
  Proprietary Xmodels available through EM Socket
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  EMSight™ including support for multi-core PCs
FI-02600 Espoo, Finland
  EM Socket interface for integration with third-party EM tools
+358 10 834 5900
 ERC/DRC/LVS capabilities including tools such as Calibre® and ICED
France  Seamless integration with Visual System Simulator™ design suite for system
AWR France co-simulation
140 Avenue Champs Elysees
75008 Paris, France
+33 1 70 36 19 63

Copyright © 2010 AWR Corporation. All rights reserved. AWR, the AWR logo, Microwave Office, and APLAC are
registered trademarks and Visual System Simulator, AXIEM, ACE, AWR Design Environment, EMSight, EM Socket,
iNet, iFilter, MRHB, Unified Data Model, and TestWave are trademarks of AWR Corporation.
All others are property of their respective holders.

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