RF Engineering (RF design) Blogs

Data sets are a powerful and easy-to-use feature in Microwave Office. Data can be effortlessly be swapped in graphs, and circuit schematics.

Microwave Office is Cadence’s tool-of-choice for RF and microwave designers designing everything from III-V 5G chips, to RF systems in board and package technologies. These types of designs require close interaction between the schematic and its layout. A new Training Byte demonstrates how the schematic-layout connections is built into Microwave Office.

When starting a new design, it's important to take the time to consider design recommendations that prevent problems that can arise later in the design cycle. This two-part compilation of guidelines for starting a new design is the result of years of Cadence AWR Design Environment platform Support experience with designs. Pre-design decisions for user interface, simulation, layout, and library configuration lay the groundwork…

AWR V22.1 software introduces the Pointer-Hybrid optimization method which uses a combination of optimization methods, switching back and forth between methods to efficiently find the lowest optimization error function cost. The optimization algorithm automatically determines when to switch to a different optimization method, making this a superior method over manual selection of algorithms. This method is particularly…

The Cadence AWR Design Environment V22.1 production release is now available for download at Cadence Downloads with design environment, AWR Microwave Office, AWR VSS, AWR Analyst, and other enhancements.

Cadence AWR Design Environment Software Featured in Multiple Training Course Options: Live and Virtual Starting in October

Thermal analysis with the Cadence Celsius Thermal Solver integrated within the AWR Microwave Office circuit simulator gives designers an understanding of device operating temperatures related to power dissipation. That temperature information can be introduced into an electrothermal model to predict the impact on RF performance.

by Sherry Hess In this new blog series, Max Maxfield gets to know Zeke, an amazing 11-year-old with a dream to speak with the astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS). His first step on this journey however began with becoming a HAM r...

When starting a new design, it's important to take the time to consider design recommendations that prevent problems that can arise later in the design cycle. This two-part compilation of guidelines for starting a new design is the result of years of Cadence AWR Design Environment platform Support experience with designs. Pre-design decisions for user interface, simulation, layout, and library configuration lay the groundwork…

A new Python library has been written to facilitate an interface between Python and AWR software using a command structure that adheres more closely to Python coding conventions. This library is labeled "pyawr-utils" and it is installed using the standard Python pip command. Comprehensive documentation for installing and using pyawr-utils is available.

The eighth in the series of AWR Design Environment Tips and Tricks, this blog highlights tips and tricks for adding, modifying, and simulating measurements on graphs in the AWR Design Environment.

The seventh in the series of AWR Design Environment Tips and Tricks, this blog highlights both common and customized display options for simulation results on a variety of graphs in the AWR Design Environment.

David Vye of Cadence and Dave Maliniak of Microwaves & RF magazine discuss the Cadence focus on providing the software solutions engineers need to design today’s complex, multi-technology systems.

3D finite element method (FEM) and 3D planar method of moments (MoM) have become a standard design practice for ensuring the accuracy of the overall network simulation.

The sixth in the series of AWR Design Environment Tips and Tricks, this blog highlights optimization of layout creation and management in Cadence Microwave Office software to speed design layout.

A significant challenge for RF designers is the optimization of an RF chain for noise and distortion performance. Determining the noise and distortion as a progression through the RF chain is known as cascade analysis. Visual System Simulator (VSS) has many measurements that assist in cascade analysis.

The fifth in the series of AWR Design Environment Tips and Tricks, this blog highlights project management options in the AWR Design Environment workspace to speed design creation and optimize use of AWR software.

The AWR Design Environment is highly customizable. Advanced customization options include using scripts to automate repetitive tasks and create custom parts libraries, creating custom symbols for subcircuits, and using parameterized layout cells.

The third in the series of AWR Design Environment Tips and Tricks, this blog highlights customization of the AWR Design Environment workspace to speed design creation and optimize use of AWR software.

The second in the series of AWR Design Environment Tips and Tricks, this blog highlights element placement in RF schematics and system diagrams for novice users, with actions to speed design creation and optimize use of AWR software.

Microwave Product Digest (MPD) Article Features AWR Design Environment V16 Software 5G wireless systems and connected devices are proliferating across every imaginable industry today, driving technology leaders to capitalize on market opportunities ...

AWR Software Tips & Tricks: Design Environment and Project Browser The first in the series of AWR Design Environment Tips and Tricks, this blog covers general design environment and Project Browser actions to speed design creation and optimize your use of AWR software.

The Team RF "μWaveRiders" blog series is a showcase for Cadence AWR RF products. Monthly topics will vary between Cadence AWR Design Environment release highlights, feature videos, Cadence Academic Network news (now includes the former A...

The AWR Design Environment Transmission Line Calculator lets you calculate and set transmission line dimensions for a specified impedance and electrical length directly from microstrip, stripline, coplanar or rectangular waveguide, or coaxial components on a schematic, accelerating the design of distributed networks such as Wilkinson dividers, Branchline couplers, and quarter-wave transformers.

The Cadence AWR Design Environment V16 production release is now available for download at Cadence Downloads with design environment, AWR Microwave Office, AWR VSS, AWR Analyst, and other enhancements.