2008 Version Of Design Environment Announced

June 19, 2008

Electronic-design-automation (EDA) supplier AWR has unveiled Version 2008 of its Microwave Office design environment. The release includes more than 100 enhancements and changes designed to improve the user interface and increase flexibility. The enhancements are meant to save time, maximize usable screen space, provide greater insight into the design, and allow bigger designs to be handled more quickly.

Version 2008 of Microwave Office includes an interface to the ICED IC design and verification software as well as improvements for seamless connection with third-party electromagnetic (EM) simulation software as well as to AWR's ACE E and AXIEM tools. Version 2008 also features APLAC harmonic-balance and optional time-domain simulation capabilities for working on complex and nonlinear designs. In addiition, it provides support for parameterized subcircuit layouts as part of the overall design, including tuning, optimization, and yield analysis, and new plotting capabilities that allow a measurement to be plotted versus any other measurement, such as power-added efficiency versus output power. More information on Version 2008 is available on the firm's web site.

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Jack Browne, Technical Contributor, has worked in technical publishing for over 30 years. He managed the content and production of three technical journals while at the American Institute of Physics, including Medical Physics and the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology. He has been a Publisher and Editor for Penton Media, started the firm’s Wireless Symposium & Exhibition trade show in 1993, and currently serves as Technical Contributor for that company's Microwaves & RF magazine. Browne, who holds a BS in Mathematics from City College of New York and BA degrees in English and Philosophy from Fordham University, is a member of the IEEE.