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AWR Design Environment Platform

Cadence AWR Design Environment V15 Now Available - RF CafeMay 12, 2020 -- El Segundo, California -- Cadence® AWR Design Environment® Version 15 (V15), which includes AWR® Microwave Office, AWR Visual System Simulator™ (VSS) and AXIEM® and Analyst™ electromagnetic (EM) simulators, has been released and is now available for download by current customers and evaluators. This latest release brings RF/microwave design solutions to the Cadence software portfolio for monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC)/RFIC, package/module, and printed circuit board (PCB) designs. The release provides key new features, add-on modules and enhancements driven by 5G, automotive and aerospace and defense applications.

V15 improves engineering productivity with new analyses, faster and higher capacity simulation technologies, time-saving design automation and 5G New Radio (NR) compliant test benches that support power amplifier (PA) and antenna/array design, EM modeling and RF/ microwave integration across heterogeneous technologies.

Release highlights include:

  • AWR Design Environment Platform
    • Environment/Automation
    • Load-pull contours on rectangular plots
    • Template-based measurements
    • Add/edit optimization goals directly on graphs
    • Edit axes directly on plots
    • Color-coded markers
    • Equation grouping
  • Physical Design/Layout
    • Real-time design rule check (DRC) compliant intelligent nets (iNets) routing guides
    • Mixed physical units/grid support
    • Two-click data entry mode
    • Resize layout objects with property page editing
    • Gerber file import for EM analysis
  • Microwave Office Circuit Design and Simulation
    • Fast, rigorous stability analysis
    • Low-frequency load pull for two-tone excitations
    • Integrated TX-Line calculator/synthesis
    • Network synthesis with process design kits (PDKs)/vendor components
  • AXIEM and Analyst EM Simulators
    • Faster, more robust adaptive meshing
    • Fast, accurate DC solver
    • Peak antenna measurements
  • Visual System Simulator (VSS) System-Level Design
    • Preconfigured 5G NR test bench libraries
    • Phased array MIMO bus support
    • PA linearization with digital predistortion (DPD)

The V15 release optimizes engineering throughput and productivity by reducing manual design tasks and supporting tool interoperability. New circuit simulation capabilities address fast and rigorous nonlinear stability analysis for multi-stage and balanced amplifiers and video-band load pull to optimize low-frequency impedance terminations for reduced intermodulation distortion. Network synthesis supports impedance network development using vendor components and PDKs, as well as synthesis capabilities launched directly from schematic. Robust simulation engines solve large structures more quickly using EM analysis with enhanced meshing and smart geometry handling for chip, package and board characterization. Preconfigured 5G NR compliant test benches provide signal sources and measurements for PA and RF link validation.

TTo learn more, visit awr.com/whatsnew.

 

About Cadence | AWR

Cadence enables electronic systems and semiconductor companies to create the innovative end products that are transforming the way people live, work and play. Cadence software, hardware and semiconductor IP are used by customers to deliver products to market faster. The company's Intelligent System Design™ strategy helps customers develop differentiated products - from chips to boards to intelligent systems - in mobile, consumer, cloud, data center, automotive, aerospace, IoT, industrial and other market segments. Cadence is listed as one of Fortune Magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work For. Learn more at www.cadence.com.

Cadence Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the expected benefits to Cadence, its products and its customers from the expected acquisition and the strategic alliance and the expected timing in which the closing of the expected acquisition will occur, that are based on current expectations and preliminary assumptions that are subject to factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside Cadence's control, including the effects of the expected acquisition on Cadence's financial results and business, the ability to successfully operate or integrate the AWR business into Cadence, the ability to retain and integrate AWR employees into Cadence, the ability to realize the expected benefits of the strategic alliance agreement, the changes in customer demands and markets, and other risk factors set forth in Cadence's most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q. Cadence undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement in this press release.

 

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Posted May 13, 2020