Date: 29/01/2010

AWR Design Environment is enhanced with 3D planar electromagnetic (EM) simulator

AWR has released the Version 9.01 of the AWR Design Environment (AWRDE) that delivers more than 100 enhancements that increase productivity, including key new features to AWR's APLAC harmonic balance engine, AXIEM 3D planar electromagnetic (EM) simulator, and new elements.

AWRDE Version 9.01 adds a new harmonic balance mode to the APLAC simulator that increases simulation speed for microwave nonlinear circuits, especially when there are an equal number of linear and nonlinear models or more linear than nonlinear models. In addition, AXIEM now supports series ports to use the software to design two-port chip components.

New or enhanced elements include the addition of an XdB compression point control block that plot all nonlinear measurements from a given schematic at "X" dB into gain compression, and an arbitrary, user-specified bit sequence (V_ARBS) and pseudo-random bit sequence (V-PRBS) that are additional voltage sources available to the user.

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