CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
3 October 2005
Product News
AWR Announces Microwave Office 2006 Design Suite
Applied Wave Research, Inc. (AWR®), a provider of high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA) tools, announced a feature-packed 2006 version of its flagship product, Microwave Office® design suite. Built on the AWR high-frequency platform with its open design environment and unified data model, Microwave Office design suite offers ease-of-use, powerful technologies, and openness and interoperability, enabling integration with best-in-class tools for each part of the design process. This latest product release continues to deliver key productivity improvements to microwave designers, shortening design cycle time and speeding time-to-market for radio-frequency (RF)/microwave products.
"Microwave Office 2006 design suite has been radically enhanced to provide the most powerful and flexible RF/microwave design environment available in the industry," said Ted Miracco, AWR executive vice president. "With the acquisition of APLAC Solutions Oy, AWR now offers a unique combination of APLAC's incomparable RF simulation technology and AWR's own robust simulators within the unique, open AWR design environment. This provides designers with the best of both worlds: powerful, speedy simulation capabilities for both large and highly nonlinear designs within an easy-to-use, integrated design platform."
This latest version of Microwave Office design suite offers a new integrated filter synthesis solution using Nuhertz Technologies' filter synthesis technology. High-frequency circuit designers can now perform accurate filter synthesis quickly and easily from within the unified AWR design platform. The feature offers complete synthesis capability for passive, transmission line, active, switched capacitor, and digital filters, as well as two graphical user interfaces (GUIs), one for the power user who requires advanced options and capabilities, and one for the mainstream user who needs ease-of-use.
EM SocketT II, AWR's second generation electromagnetic (EM) open socket interface, now supports visualizations for integrated third-party tools. All EM manipulation and visualization features that were a valuable part of AWR's EMSightT technology are now part of the EM Socket II. This enables EM Socket integrators like Sonnet, Zeland, Optimal, etc., to access current animations and E-field display.
Additional new key features include:
• New unified and integrated EM and layout editor eliminating the need for a separate EM editor by directly combining EM into schematics and layout
• EMSight 3-5x speed improvement and new advanced frequency sweep (AFS) capability for faster EMSight results over a large bandwidth
• New layout architecture for speed and capacity
• New layer user interface (UI) and multiple EM mappings
• New Switch Views feature enabling multiple schematic/electrical views for the same layout, simplifying linear/nonlinear/system simulation and LVS
• New high performance/high accuracy harmonic balance simulator from APLAC
• Faster HSPICE with support for larger arbitrary n-port devices
• Simulation filters that limit the scope of the project on which the simulators should focus without disabling individual graphs or schematics.
• New time-domain waveform measurements for use with harmonic balance and time-domain simulators
• ERC/DRC enhancements
• New folder management feature for larger projects
• Improved reporting of simulation warnings and errors
• New license file-sensitive installer that simplifies administration of features
Pricing and Availability
AWR will release the Microwave Office 2006 design suite to customers in Q1 2006. A beta version is available immediately for customers with support contracts. The product supports Windows 2000, XP, and Linux. U.S. list prices for yearly, time-based licenses range from $5000-$40,000 depending upon configurations. For more information on product pricing and availability, contact AWR at info@appwave.com or 310-726-3000. For product pricing and availability outside the U.S., please contact AWR or AWR's local sales representative.
Applied Wave Research is a supplier of high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA) products for the design of: wireless telecommunications equipment, semiconductors, high-speed computers, networking systems, automotive mobility systems, and a variety of other electronics-based products. AWR is a privately held company and has development offices, sales offices, training centers, and global distribution. AWR launched its first product in 1998 and today has over 500 customer companies worldwide, including virtually every major high-frequency electronic component and system supplier. The company is headquartered at 1960 East Grand Avenue, Suite 430, El Segundo, California 90245. For more information about AWR and the company's products, please visit http://www.appwave.com or call 310-726-3000.
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