Software & Design Tools

Designers of 5G/6G systems must take into account the seven major “pillars” critical to their successful creation, which center around antennas, receivers, and RF power, among...

Houman Zarrinkoub, principal wireless product manager at MathWorks, discusses some of the challenges facing RF designers as they work to add new dimensions to "ubiquitous connectivity...

This ongoing series investigates the challenges associated with building today’s wireless systems and offers resources to aid development.

In this edition of Algorithms to Antennas, we model a surveillance radar set in a mountainous region where the terrain can occlude both ground vehicles and low-altitude aerial...

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Concerns about power-amplifier heating and operating temps aren’t new as they affect device reliability and performance. However, RF designers must broaden the scope of thermal...

What are the board-design considerations for building circuits targeting mmWave apps? This article highlights the main design issues and offers some tips and tricks to help you...

More complex designs and growing test logic need physically aware implementation of all DFT logic for optimal power, performance, and area.

We have covered a range of specific topics that relate to antenna-array design for 5G systems in a number of past blogs. Here we connect these topics to published specifications...

Collaborative software tools can optimize the design process, as well as the device being designed

An assortment of 3D models for QFN packages enable designers to predict performance for a wide range of scenarios via full-wave 3D EM simulations.

By leveraging advanced software, accurate results were obtained in the design, simulation, and testing of a power amplifier. This article is a study focused on unconditional stability...

The EDA industry, as it has for decades, continues to provide the tools that make designers’ jobs possible, even as it broadens its scope to full system level.

This article looks at how, through automotive design, software test libraries and certain methodologies can deliver functional safety as well as improve efficiency.

Keshav Amla, founder and CEO of Avishtech, an EDA startup, discusses how the company’s PCB simulation and stackup tools can close the gap between PCB design and manufacturability...

In this roundup, we survey some of the latest software innovations to arrive in 2021.

A workflow that combines measurement-based models with discrete part-value optimization can aid designers by automatically adjusting a design’s component values to optimal manufacturer...

Electromagnetic simulators are gaining in power and ease of use but also becoming more available integrated into other high-frequency simulation software programs

Utilizing measurement-based passive-component models within an electromagnetic simulator enables simulations that accurately predict measured performance.

A 3D electromagnetic field solver that focuses on antenna design can also optimize planar filter designs when used in tandem with a separate software tool.

As momentum builds for large markets in 5G and radar systems in self-driving vehicles, design engineers rely more and more on the models and simulation capabilities of software...

A novel filter design workflow leverages an easy-to-use filter synthesis tool as well as optimization based on coupling matrix extraction.

The evolution of modern CAE software has integrated many different tools to greatly simplify the task of the modern RF/microwave circuit and system designer.