AWR Design Environment Platform

The AWR Design Environment Platform is an intuitive and comprehensive electronic design automation (EDA) platform tailored for RF and microwave product development. It accelerates development cycles by enhancing engineering productivity and reducing turnaround time through design automation. This platform integrates advanced high-frequency circuit and system simulation with in-design electromagnetic (EM) and thermal analyses, ensuring manufacturing-ready high-frequency IP with precision and efficiency.

Key features of the platform include:

• Innovative User Interface: A powerful and intuitive interface designed to enhance productivity with customizable design flows for high-frequency semiconductor and PCB technologies.
• Smarter Design Entry: A unified design capture system that links electrical and layout design entries, ensuring synchronized physical layouts from electrical schematics.
• Comprehensive Simulation and Analysis: Nonlinear harmonic balance and circuit envelope simulation combined with in-design EM/thermal analyses for accurate predictions of network behavior across various components.
• Interoperability and Manufacturing Readiness: Advanced yield analysis and optimization for robust design and profitability, with direct tape-out capabilities and interoperability with other Cadence platforms.

The platform supports a wide range of applications, including RF amplifier development, high-performance antenna and phased array systems, and 5G/6G technology demands. It facilitates the design of form-factor filter solutions and passive components, leveraging integrated EM analysis software for optimization.

With its integrated EDA platform, the AWR Design Environment supports all phases of high-frequency product development, from synthesis to design entry, optimization, and tapeout. It includes robust simulation tools for nonlinear RF/microwave circuits and in-design planar, 3D EM, and thermal analysis capabilities.

Additional features include design aids for filter and impedance matching, optimization and yield analysis, and support for RF compound semiconductor foundry process design kits (PDKs). These capabilities enable designers to meet aggressive performance targets and ensure first-pass design success.