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Microwave Office® for ODB++
Integrating RF circuits into a high-speed/mixed-signal printed circuit board (PCB) design flow is not an easy task. To deal with the realities of this complexity (incorporating digital, RF/microwave, and analog circuits on the same board), designers need a powerful, yet easy-to-use software solution that simplifies the tasks at hand and not one that adds more complexity to it.
AWR Connected for ODB++ is just such a link. It works by connecting popular third party PCB tools and AWR software - Microwave Office RF/microwave circuit simulation and AXIEM® electromagnetic analysis software - by enabling the flow of PCB layout data (exported from vendor tools in ODB++ format) into AWR's Microwave Office / AXIEM software for post-layout, final design-stage verification.
Highlights include:
- Import layout from PCB tools: full PCB, arbitrary section, and/or select traces with proximity
- Providing a flow with PCB vendors such as Altium and Intercept
- Providing a flow with PCB vendors such as Altium and Intercept
- Schematic created from component information (models supplied by designer)
- EM Ports automatically applied and wired into schematic
- Ready to EM simulate with AXIEM
