EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Applied Wave Research, Inc., a leading provider of high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA) tools, has announced the 2007 versions of its flagship high-frequency software, the Microwave Office design suite and its system simulation software, Visual System Simulator (VSS).
These latest releases provide new software capabilities that help designers deliver next-generation communications products with a higher degree of confidence in less design cycle time, the company said.
“The new technologies AWR is delivering with Microwave Office 2007 and VSS 2007 software are the result of utilizing our microwave expertise to migrate the benefits of digital/analog circuit extraction technology into useful software for high-frequency design,” said Dane Collins, CEO at AWR.
“Our company has a rich and long-standing tradition of leveraging its considerable experience in microwave design in order to provide pioneering EDA solutions that dramatically improve design productivity and reduce product development costs for communications applications.”
New in Microwave Office software is a circuit extraction technology developed specifically to deliver productivity benefits to designers of today’s complex, next-generation communications products.
ACE automated circuit extraction is said to reduce from hours to seconds the time required to do the initial modeling of complex interconnects because users are able to leverage layout-based models for circuit extraction. This approach to circuit extraction enables designers to perform interconnect modeling quickly and accurately at the earliest stages of the design flow, where problems can be identified and corrected before costly and time-consuming redesigns are required.
VSS 2007 software now includes RFA technology, an advanced system-level radio–frequency (RF) architectural planning and specification tool for RF communication system engineers who need to quickly create and verify the initial specifications of a radio design before committing to hardware and/or a particular circuit design. RFA offers a new simulation tool, RF Inspector, which helps designers find potential pitfalls early in the design process, at the system-level design phase, thus saving significant design cycle time and costly respins.
