AWR 2011 Product Portfolio Ships

The Microwave Office and Analog Office 2011 design suites encompass all the tools essential for high-frequency IC (MMIC/RFIC), PCB and module design, including: linear circuit simulators, non-linear circuit simulators, electromagnetic (EM) analysis tools, schematic and layout, statistical design capabilities, and parametric cell libraries with built-in design-rule check (DRC).
New features specific to the 2011 release include:

• Floating window support for multiple monitor displays
• Group design/project import
• Simulation state management of datasets
• Yield analysis and optimizers
• RF aware short checker
• iMatch™ impedance matching module

VSS 2011 software for the design of complex communications systems supports a diverse set of standards including LTE, WiMAX/802.16x, GSM/EDGE, WLAN/802.11x and more. New features added to VSS 2011 include:

• Radar library
• Circuit envelope simulation
• RF Budget (RFB) spreadsheet wizard
• Nonlinear co-simulation and co-simulation with National Instrument’s LabVIEW

As for AXIEM, AWR’s 3D full-wave planar electromagnetic simulator, new features in the 2011 release include:

• Asynchronous EM simulation
• Simulation state management of datasets
• Rule-based shape modifiers
• Yield analysis
• User-defined parameterized models and X-models

With more than 300 new additions and enhancements to AWR 2011, this is by far the most aggressive upgrade since the company began shipping software back in 1998. Comprehensive information on all of the feature improvements to the 2011 software can be found within the “What’s New” online documentation embedded with the software itself.