Linwave Technology recently faced a design challenge involving an X-band predistortion linearizer operating at 7.9-8.4GHz. The design spec required that a module be produced that generates an AM-AM and AM-PM profile, which at a prescribed drive level cancels out the AM-AM and the AM-PM of a power amplifier (in this case a traveling-wave tube) and thereby extends its linear dynamic range. Using a combination of variable attenuators and phase shift...

For a limited time, AWR will offer a free eBook download of Chapter 18, “Wideband Amplifiers,” from the new second edition of engineering professor Michael Steer’s textbook, Microwave & RF Design: A Systems Approach. The eBook excerpt download also contains embedded video tutorials of Professor Steer demonstrating key principles of design as they pertain to the wideband amplifier case study contained within its pages.

The wireless revolution that brought smart phones and wifi-enabled everything to you, is largely thanks to AWR. Our software is what microwave and RF engineers use to design wireless products.... from base stations to cellphones to satellite communications. We accelerate the design and product development cycle of high-frequency ICs and systems found within the aerospace/defense, semiconductor, computer, consumer electronics, and telecommunicatio...

A new white paper from AWR, “RF/Microwave EDA Software Design Flow Considerations for PA MMIC Design,” examines a gallium arsenide pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor power amplifier design approach from a systems perspective. The design flow and its essential features for most PA design projects is illustrated through the design of a simple, Class A GaAs pHEMT monolithic microwave integrated circuit PA using AWR’s M...

AWR gifted its software to the winners of the High Efficiency Power Amplifier and Software Defined Radio Student Design Contests offered at the 2013 International Microwave Symposium Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Conference. The gifts are part of the AWR University Program, which sponsors student design contests throughout the world to encourage students to become involved in the dynamic profession of microwave and RF engineering and to...

AWR has today revealed that its customer, Marki Microwave, has leveraged its high-frequency design software platform to develop a new design and manufacturing flow for successful mixer design. The revolutionary new mixer design flow combines AWR’s Microwave Office circuit design software and Marki’s patent-pending Microlithic mixer manufacturing process. This has resulted in a 14x reduction in the size of Marki’s mixers and a 5x...

AWR Corporation reveals that as part of its on going commitment to fostering the careers of future RF/microwave engineers worldwide and specifically in Asia Pacific, the company is sponsoring the first-ever student design competition at Xidian University in Xi’an, China. Xidian University is a Chinese national key university, which, under the Ministry of Education, has been approved to provide engineering education and training in the fields of...

The Czech Technical University in Prague challenges its graduate engineering students to master the basic design of microwave circuits and subsystems and become familiar with the concepts of active and passive microwave and millimeter wave circuit designs. CTU uses AWR’s Microwave Office circuit design software and AXIEM EM simulation software extensively in both coursework and research because it is fast to learn and easy to use, enabling stud...

AWR announces a new eBook, RF Electronics: Design and Simulation, which is available free of charge to students, graduates, professors and industry professionals through AWR’s new Professors in Partnership web portal.

AWR and Modelithics announce the availability of Version 10.1 of the Modelithics COMPLETE Library of passive and active device models for AWR’s Microwave Office high-frequency design software. The Modelithics COMPLETE Library offers the industry’s most advanced simulation models for passive components, transistors, diodes, and more, which are completely integrated within Microwave Office.

AWR Corporation is a gold sponsor and will offer a full agenda of activities at the International Microwave Symposium 2013 that inform and educate attendees about new ways to use RF/microwave software for circuit and system design. IMS 2013 takes place from June 4 to 7 in Seattle, Washington. In its Booth #330, AWR will showcase software demonstrations of key features in its current product release, V10, as well as a sneak-peek preview of feature...

AWR’s new application note titled, ‘Multisim/Ultiboard for Low-Frequency Simulation and Layout’ details how to complement Microwave Office circuit design software with National Instrument’s Multisim circuit simulation software and Ultiboard printed circuit board layout software for a comprehensive design flow spanning from DC to microwave frequencies.

AWR Corporation announces that it will continue to offer its popular Graduate Gift Initiative to graduating engineering students worldwide for a record fourth consecutive year. The AWR Graduate Gift Initiative program provides qualified electrical engineering graduates with free and fully functional one-year licenses of AWR software, inclusive of Microwave Office and Visual System Simulator software suites as well as AXIEM 3D planar EM simulation...

AWR is a gold sponsor at the Electronic Design Innovations Conference 2013, which runs from March 12 -14 in Beijing, China. Together with parent company National Instruments, AWR will be showcasing at Booth #255 joint hardware/software solutions, as well as the first update in 2013 of the AWR Design Environment, inclusive of Microwave Office/Analog Office circuit design software, Visual System Simulator system design software, as well as AXIEM 3D...

AWR has just published a new Microwave Office software application note titled, “End-to-end Design and Realization of an X-band Transmission Analyzer Using AWR Circuit, System, and EM Software.” The note examines the complete flow and details the design of several critical design elements for this device, which integrates many RF components on a single printed circuit board.

Understanding and correctly predicting cellular, radar, or satellite RF link performance early in the design cycle has become a key element in product success. The requirements of today’s complex, high performance wireless devices are driving designers to assess critical measurements — noise figure, 1dB gain compression, third order intermodulation distortion versus output power, and signal-to-noise ratio — long before manufacturing begins.

AWR Corporation together with Zuken have today announced AWR Connected for Zuken. This RF printed circuit board verification flow simplifies the PCB design process and therefore shortens design cycles by enabling users to quickly and easily simulate and verify embedded RF functionality. AWR Connected for Zuken provides a pathway from Zuken’s CR-8000 Design Force PCB design software into AWR’s Microwave Office high-frequency simulation softwar...

AWR announces the release of two new university success stories that reveal how students use AWR software to design novel and award-winning microwave/RF products. Norbert Leder of the Vienna University of Technology led a team in the design of a complex X-band transmission analyzer using Microwave Office.

AWR and Optenni have today jointly announced the release of AWR Connected for Optenni Lab, an integrated workflow that accelerates wireless antenna design by enabling optimized matching circuits to be transferred from Optenni Lab matching circuit software to AWR’s Microwave Office high-frequency design software with a single mouse click.

AWR Corporation announces the commercial release and immediate availability of Analyst. Analyst is a full featured, 3D electromagnetic industry standard finite element method simulator that is completely integrated into AWR’s Microwave Office circuit simulation environment, effectively making 3D FEM EM analysis as straightforward as a mouse click.