Applied Wave Research today announced Microwave Office® 2004 design suite for next-generation RF and microwave circuit designs. The latest version of this design system provides RF and microwave engineers with significant improvements in power and usability to increase design accuracy and shorten design cycle time. Microwave Office 2004 software fully integrates three-dimensional (3D) planar electromagnetic (EM) simulation with circuit simulation and layout tools, permitting arbitrary physical structures to be embedded within linear and nonlinear circuit simulations. AWR has improved the capacity of its EMSight™ EM simulator by over 5X. The simulator uses a full-wave spectral-domain approach based on the method-of-moments (MoM), and is multi-threaded to take advantage of multiprocessor computers. The Microwave Office 2004 solution has a dynamic EM-extraction capability that provides the ability to select schematic elements and target them for simulation using any of the EM solvers supported through the EM Socket interface. With Microwave Office 2004 designers can combine the speed of circuit simulation, the accuracy of EM, and the control of the design process, all from within the AWR Design Environment™, while optimizing designs simultaneously with their EM simulator of choice. The Microwave Office 2004 product also offers improvements in harmonic balance simulation, layout, and the user interface (UI), as well as new models.

Applied Wave Research, Inc.