Overview
Cadence® AWR® software products offer a leading front-to-back monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMIC) design flow with an innovative user interface and complete integration of design entry, simulation, and physical design tools that enhances engineering productivity and ensures first-pass success. III-V semiconductors such as gallium arsenide (GaAs) and gallium nitride (GaN) offer superior RF performance for mobile devices, communications infrastructure, and aerospace applications. MMICs based on GaAs or GaN heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) and high-electron mobility transistor (HEMT) devices achieve optimal performance through reliable circuit simulation, electromagnetic (EM) verification, communication testbenches, and a design flow that links electrical design to physical realization.
Key Benefits
Highlights
III-V and MMIC Design Software
Cadence AWR software and system analysis products address front-to-back MMIC development with best-in-class design entry/management, RF circuit simulation, EM/thermal analysis, and system co-simulation/verification for communications and radar applications.
AWR
Design Environment
The AWR Design Environment® platform provides RF/microwave engineers with integrated
high-frequency circuit, system, and EM simulation technologies and design automation to develop physically
realizable electronics ready for manufacturing.
AWR Microwave
Office
AWR Microwave Office® circuit design software offers an intuitive interface,
innovative design automation, and powerful HB circuit simulation to ensure greater engineering
productivity and accelerated design cycles.
AWR Visual
System Simulator
AWR Visual System Simulator™ (VSS) RF/wireless communications and radar system design software
supports voltage standing-wave ratio (VSWR)-aware modeling of RF and digital
signal processing blocks, providing time-domain, frequency-domain, and circuit-envelope analyses.
Simulation with preconfigured and/or customized system testbenches provides analysis of ACPR, BER, and EVM for
PCBs operating under wireless, standards-specific, modulated waveforms.
AWR AXIEM
The AWR AXIEM® 3D proprietary full-wave planar EM simulator is based on
method-of-moments (MoM) fast-solver technology that readily analyzes distributed PCB components,
transmission lines, and layer-to-layer PCB interconnects such as vias. Designers can extract S-parameters
directly within their PCB design and visualize fields/currents to identify parasitic coupling and
resonances.
Clarity 3D
Solver
Industry-leading Cadence distributed multiprocessing technology enables the finite element method
(FEM)/finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) Clarity™ 3D Solver to deliver virtually unlimited capacity and the
10X speed required to efficiently and effectively address these larger and more complex structures. It creates
highly accurate S-parameter models for use in RF/microwave, signal integrity (SI), power integrity (PI), and
electromagnetic compliance (EMC) analyses.
Celsius
Thermal Solver
Celsius™ Thermal Solver is the first thermal analysis technology designed for the electrical engineer.
It delivers a complete electrothermal co-simulation technology for MMICs. Celsius Thermal Solver is integrated
within the AWR Design Environment platform, providing ready access to high-capacity electrothermal analysis for
design verification and signoff of large, densely populated RF/microwave systems and high-power amplifiers.
MMIC Layout Tools
AWR Design Environment and Cadence® Virtuoso® platforms combine to bring your innovative wireless designs to life. With a comprehensive, powerful, and easy-to-use suite of tools, you can effortlessly tackle the simplest or most complex projects.
Design for manufacturing (DFM) is inherent in the AWR software platform, providing accurate modeling of process-specific metal traces and on-chip components from foundry-authorized PDKs. Export of GDSII layout files supports the transfer of design information into dedicated manufacturing tools. PDKs developed in collaboration with leading MMIC foundries provide engineers using AWR Design Environment software with schematics, scalable layout PCells, advanced layout utilities, and connectivity checking/highlighting.
The industry-leading Virtuoso custom IC layout design tools accelerate your physical layout implementation productivity, enabling you to achieve faster design convergence with higher quality and more differentiated silicon. Our Virtuoso layout design tools support full custom analog, digital, RF, and mixed-signal designs at the device, cell, block, and chip levels.
Virtuoso layout design tool capabilities incrementally build upon each other to help you manage the growing complexity of designs:
- Advanced full custom polygon editing
- Full custom layout
- Flexible schematic-driven layout
- Physical constraint-driven layout
- Electrical constraint-driven layout
- Assisted full custom layout
- Automated full custom layout