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AWR E-NEWSLETTER 3 | 2009 - www.awrcorp.com

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AWR Sherry Hess Thanks to Our Great Partnerships, IMS is Successful for All

Sherry Hess Blogs on Microwave Journal Well, June has come and gone and so too has IEEE-MTT IMS 2009 in Boston, MA. Every year, there is lots of perspiration and preparation invested getting to the show, followed by a sleepless yet fun, hectic and fruitful week at the show and then a strong dose of reality when its back to work as normal. 

And for most of us, it's the follow-up, review, feedback loop at the end that so often gets short-circuited. Not this year, I am vowing, and I'm sending this e-newsletter to the rescue.

I'm still being asked, even towards the end of July, how IMS went this year. IMS was great. AWR had an excellent showing of employees, customers, friends and partners in and around our booth all week. We worked hard to have on hand lots of great information and demos for our customers and visitors to experience as fully as possible the advantages of our software. We could never have pulled off such a successful show, especially in this economy, if it weren't for our close partnerships.

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AWR Facebook Page Thanks to great cooperation from Mimix Broadband and Cree the Friday before IMS week, we were able to produce success stories for distribution and promotion at the show. Similarly, our partner friends at Anritsu loaned us one of their new VectorStar VNAs so we could provide real-time, hands-on demonstrations of Microwave Office® software running on this firmware directly in our booth. (The 52" flat panel hook-up we attached to it made the display a sight to see.) If you didn't make it to Boston, you can still see this demo in all its glory on http://www.awr.tv/.

Other valued partners like Mesuro and Rohde & Schwarz worked with us in the days and hours before the show to take advantage of our joint presence at the show. Both Mesuro and Rohde & Schwarz agreed to video interviews for imminent release on AWR TV. These videos highlight Mesuro's Cardiff model for use within Microwave Office and R&S's WinIQSim2 software for use within Visual System Simulator™. 

On the lighter side, Modelithics and Mimix both joined with us to do some fun give-away promotions and prizes in the booth. And how can I not mention TriQuint and Anritsu as party co-sponsors of the AWR 5th Annual Customer Appreciation Party at the Hard Rock? Go to our Facebook fan page to see pictures from this feel-good event and submit yours!

In addition to partner activities, our R&D team members met with a number of you, our valued customers, to discuss first hand the needs you foresee in the future as well as to touch upon issues you may currently be facing. Our talented AE staff prepared numerous demonstrations to preview the new and exciting features coming your way soon in the 2009 release of our product portfolio.

All in all, at AWR we keep ourselves busy, productive and working hard to provide you with the best tools and support we can. If you didn't have the chance to see us at IMS this past June, take time to read this e-newsletter and visit our website and awr.tv to acquaint yourself with the many resources I mentioned above.  And lastly, add it to your calendar now to see us next year in Anaheim at IMS 2010. May 23-28! 



Sherry Hess, Vice President of Marketing, AWR

Microwave Office Version 2009

Microwave Office 2009 Microwave Office® 2009 carries on the AWR tradition of advancing the wireless revolution with powerful new features that enable developers to improve productivity and shorten design cycle time. MRHB™, a groundbreaking new multi-rate harmonic balance technology, dramatically increases the speed and reduces the computer memory required to perform steady-state analysis of complex nonlinear systems with multiple signal sources. A founding member of the Interoperable PDK Library (IPL) alliance, AWR has expanded support for Open Access (OA) process design kits (PDKs).

A new constant output power simulation capability eliminates manual post-processing steps and reduces simulation iterations. Enhanced load-pull analysis includes dramatic speed improvements as well as the ability to add or remove load-pull data points directly on the Smith Chart. Behavioral model support for Mesuro's active load-pull system enables the replication of S-parameter concepts within the nonlinear domain, enabling modeling and design engineers to fully characterize their devices or power-amplifiers for any signal and impedance environment.

Beta version is available for customers with active maintenance, get started today >>

AWR Success Story - Mimix

Customer Success Story

Mimix Broadband Solves an Entire MMIC Chip Using AXIEM 3D Planar EM Software

AXIEM Challenge:
To outperform in speed and complexity any other commercial EM solution

Result:
Only AXIEM can solve the entire structure. Other commercial/competing EM point-tools necessitate a divide & conquer approach.

"We were unable to EM this entire structure using any other EM solver and turned to AWR to give it a try. The insights gained as unveiled by AXIEM™ opens up new vistas in mm-wave design for Mimix."

Dr. Simon Mahon
Director of MMIC Design
Mimix Broadband, Inc.

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AWR Success Story - Cree

Customer Success Story

Cree Speeds Development of High-Performance GaN Doherty Amplifiers by 70%

Microwave Office Capabilities Provide First-Pass Design Success of  Complex 2.1-GHz Circuits

"The speed and ease of use of Microwave Office together with the accurate passive component and transistor models allows us to realize first pass design success. We are also able to create more designs in a given time, which makes our development engineers more efficient."

Simon Wood
RF Product Development Manager
Cree, Inc.

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Tech Talk with AWR

Today's Host: Dr. Jaakko Juntunen, Sales Manager - Central Europe, AWR Finland

APLAC Time Domain Circuit Simulation - Failure Analysis ExampleAWR Jaakko Juntunen
(View Video on AWR TV)

"Hi Jaakko,

I have been using Microwave Office for many years, and I heard that one can do transient simulations nowadays. I know there are time-domain measurements, but they are based on steady-state simulations. My case is different: I want to study component failures during the operation of the device, startup times of amplifiers and so on, and a steady-state assumption makes no sense here. So do you have a "real" transient solver available for this kind of problems?"

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"The short answer is yes. A bit longer answer is that AWR has merged APLAC® simulation technology into AWR Design Environment™, and part of that technology is the transient simulator. But the merging is more: in particular for failure analysis, we can make great use of native APLAC elements that understand time dependency. The failure typically might mean breaking a connection at a given point in time (soldering break or element burn), in some other case it might mean introduction of a new connection (short circuit introduced by spilling conducting liquid or alien object). Both of these are easily modeled using the time-dependent resistor: the idea is to switch back and forth between small and large resistance, essentially soldering and breaking any desired connection. Otherwise you can use your existing Microwave Office designs - the transient simulator is compatible with the AWR elements.

The measurements that you need are actually exactly the same what you already pointed out; the only difference is that you select "APLAC Trans" as the simulator from the dropdown list.

An exercise with a power amplifier design with a breaking connection at the emitter connection reveals some interesting phenomena that would be impossible to discover otherwise. There are questions like 'how high transient spikes are introduced in the output, if any' or 'are there oscillations introduced' that can be studied using the transient solver. Please have a closer look on a video at AWR TV!"

APLAC Screenshot

 

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future "tech talk" feature.

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