Knowledge Booster Training Bytes - The Close Connection Between Schematics and Their Layouts in Microwave Office

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 tight interaction between the schematic and layout of the circuit. For example, distributed microwave filters use the length of various stub lengths, and the interaction between resonating lines to advantage.

This Training Byte, Coupling Between Schematic and Layout in Microwave Office, demonstrates some of the unique features Microwave Office enables to help the designer, as they create the circuit:

•  Changes  to an element’s layout, for example the width or length of a transmission line, are immediately updated in the model in the schematic.
•  Connectivity between elements in the layout and schematic is maintained by construction.

Most circuit software requires that the schematic and layout are periodically “synced”, to make sure the layout and schematic show the same thing. In Microwave Office, synchronization is carried out on-the-fly. This reduces the possibility of errors, as well as time spent on computational overhead.

What's Next?

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• View the Training Byte: Coupling Between Schematic and Layout in Microwave Office
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