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Applied Wave Research (AWR) - Press Release 7-28-2008
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AWR's Microwave Office® Software Integrates Latest Breakthrough in
High-Frequency Filter Design
from Nuhertz Technologies®
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SEGUNDO, Calif. July 28, 2008: AWR®, the innovation leader
in high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA), today announced
that its Microwave Office high-frequency design suite fully exploits
a breakthrough in filter design recently released from its partner Nuhertz
Technologies®, whose filter synthesis and analysis software, Nuhertz
Filter, can be seamlessly integrated within Microwave Office software.
This breakthrough, called "delay equalization with off-axis quadruplet
and real zeros" reduces from hours to seconds the computation time required
to obtain flat group delay response in quadruplet zeros delay equalized
lumped element filters.
The integration of Nuhertz Technologies'
software is part of AWR's long-standing policy of allowing customers
to integrate tools from select third parties within the AWR Design Environment
to ensure they have the most complete solution for every stage of the
design process.
Obtaining flat group delay response to ensure
that all frequencies arrive at the same time within a filter's passband
is one of the most critical aspects of good filter design and is essential
in order to obtain distortion-free performance. Controlling group delay
efficiently has been a major challenge for industry and academia for
decades and many advancements and algorithms have been developed to
more efficiently control group delay in band-pass filters by cross-coupling
resonators.
However, low-pass and high-pass filters require massive,
time-consuming computer optimizations to synthesize the required component
values when efficient quadruplet zeros are employed. Nuhertz Technologies
has developed a direct-synthesis strategy for determining the element
values that control low-pass or high-pass quadruplet zeros controlled
group delay that dramatically reduces computation time while eliminating
unnecessary circuit components that result from traditional equalization
techniques. Nuhertz Filter, and the stand-alone version Filter Solutions,
is currently the only filter synthesis software to provide this capability,
and Microwave Office software is the only high-frequency design environment
in which it can be directly integrated. Nuhertz Filter software functions
seamlessly within the Microwave Office design suite so it is simple
for engineers to learn and use.
About Microwave Office Software
The Microwave Office design suite is the industry's fastest growing
RF and microwave design platform that integrates the most powerful,
innovative tools available to allow users to create designs in the shortest
time with the greatest flexibility. From design capture and synthesis
to simulation, optimization, layout, extraction, and verification, the
Microwave Office design environment delivers the highest levels of accuracy
and speed, along with the unique ability to seamlessly integrate third-party
tools. AWR recently introduced Version 2008 of the Microwave Office
design suite, which incorporates more than 100 enhancements including
sweeping changes to the user interface that dramatically increase its
flexibility for the user.
About AWR
AWR is the innovation
leader in high-frequency EDA software that dramatically reduces development
time and cost for products employed in wireless, high-speed wired broadband,
aerospace and defense, and electro-optical applications. The company's
core technology is unique among high-frequency EDA platforms in that
it is inherently open and flexible. AWR continually strengthens its
product portfolio with innovative new technologies that enable faster,
more streamlined product development, the most recent of which are the
ACEâ„¢, RFAâ„¢, and AXIEMâ„¢ tools. The privately-held company has thousands
of users, and is headquartered at 1960 East Grand Avenue, Suite 430,
El Segundo, Calif. 90245. For more information about AWR and its products,
please visit www.awrcorp.com
About Nuhertz Technologies
Nuhertz Technologies, LLC,
based in Phoenix, AZ, is an innovative world leader in low and high-frequency
filter synthesis and analysis software tools that has developed numerous
revolutionary synthesis algorithms. Its products provide productivity
and performance improvements not possible with any other design system
within a straightforward yet comprehensive user interface. For more
information visit www.nuhertz.com.
Copyright © 2008 Applied Wave Research, Inc. All rights reserved.
AWR, the AWR logo, and Microwave Office are registered trademarks and
AWR Design Environment, ACE, RFA, and AXIEM are trademarks of Applied
Wave Research, Inc.
For more information, please contact:
Sherry Hess
AWR
1960 East Grand Avenue, Suite 430, El Segundo,
CA 90245
(310) 726-3000
sherry.hess@awrcorp.com
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