AWR Corp. Overview

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CORPORATION
Overview
The Innovation
Leader in
High-Frequency
EDA
CORPORATE BROCHURE
MICROWAVE OFFICE®
VISUAL SYSTEM SIMULATOR™
AXIEM™
AWR CORPORATION
AT-A-GLANCE
Founded
1994
Headquarters
1960 East Grand Ave.,
Suite 430,
Since 1998 and the introduction of AWR’s first Microsoft
El Segundo, California 90245
Office-like UI and PC/Windows-based software product, our
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software design tools have been used to create anything
Employees
and everything from simple components to complex, highly-
100+
integrated circuits such as RFICs and Monolithic Microwave
Public Company
Integrated Circuits (MMICs) that operate from very low
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frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum to near
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optical wavelengths.
Electronic design
Today more than 700 corporate customers rely on AWR
automation software and services
software-- ranging in size from small firms to Fortune 100
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and include the majority of the world’s manufacturers of high-
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frequency electronic components and systems. The reason is simple: AWR as well
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as its design software was created by design engineers for design engineers, and is
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AWR Founder/CTO
optimized to make the creation, refinement, and manufacture of complex products
faster, more reliable, and less costly than competitive offerings.
AWR’s mission then and now is to dramatically increase the productivity of gigahertz
electronic product development. The company’s key differentiator is its core technology,
which embodies years of knowledge and expertise in RF, microwave, and millimeter
wave design. The AWR open and flexible software architecture maximizes user
efficiency by enabling designers to choose the best tool for each part of the design
process and integrating the entire design flow in a single, easy-to-use platform.
I invite you to learn more about AWR and to trial our software yourself.
Visit us at www.awrcorp.com.
Sincerely,
Joe Pekarek
AWR Founder/CTO
AWR INNOVATION TIMELINE
Company Founded
Object-oriented
EDA framework
with COM
interfaces
Unified Data Model™,
schematic, simulation
and layout co-design
Real-time 3D
view of layout
1994
1998
1999
2000
Visual System
Simulator™ with circuit/
system co-simulation
and X-Models
2001
XML-based vendor
libraries
EM Socket™
interface
iNet™
2002
2003
2004
With intense time-to-market pressures, our
designers need proven design flows that work
seamlessly and Microwave Office fills this need.
Dr. Simon Mahon, Director of MMIC Design
Mimix Broadband, Inc.
AWR, THE INNOVATION LEADER IN HF EDA
Built by microwave designers for microwave designers, AWR software solutions are used
to design the critical RF and microwave portions of products such as cellular phones
and smartphones, cellular base station transceivers, satellite communications systems,
and defense systems for electronic warfare, radar, and communications. Engineers also
use AWR software in the design of wireless-enabled products that incorporate WiFi and
Bluetooth connectivity, cable and fiber-optic networks, and hundreds of other applications
that use wireless technology to “unwire” their systems. In addition, AWR provides
unparalleled customer support, ensuring that customers’ software
investments are leveraged to their fullest extent.
PRODUCTS
AWR’s software products target integrated circuits (ICs),
multi-chip modules (MCMs), and printed circuit boards
(PCBs) within electronic circuits and systems in the
wireless, high-frequency wire-line, and electro-optical
markets (applications operating above the 1 GHz
frequency range). These solutions include a complete
and integrated suite of EDA tools to streamline the
design process from concept through simulation to final
physical implementation.
EDA Technologies
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Analog, RF, and microwave design
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Linear and nonlinear circuit analysis
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Communications system analysis
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Electromagnetic (EM) simulation
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PCB and integrated circuit layout
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Design rule checking (DRC)
Parasitic extraction
socket, anytime
extraction
Current annotation
in layout, multitechnology support
ACE™ - automated
circuit extraction
technology
AXIEM™ 3D planar
EM simulation
technology
MRHB™
TDNN™ memory
effect modeling
Circuit envelope
technology
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
The power and speed of AWR’s new AXIEM
AWR PRODUCT
PORTFOLIO
3D planar EM software made it possible to
accurately and efficiently simulate the entire
structure of this very complex NDPA MMIC.
Chuck Campbell, Fellow
TriQuint Semiconductor
MICROWAVE OFFICE DESIGN SUITE
Microwave OfficeTM design suite, AWR’s flagship product, was developed by MMIC
designer and AWR founder Dr. Joseph Pekarek because available tools were inadequate
for efficient MMIC design. Microwave Office encompasses all the tools required for
high-frequency IC (MIC, MMIC), RF printed circuit board (PCB), and module (MCM,
SiP) design. Its ability to make complex tasks within microwave design more
straightforward and intuitive combined with very high levels of precision
and speed makes Microwave Office the industry’s fastest growing RF/
microwave design platform. Its seamlessly-integrated functions include
linear and non-linear circuit simulators, electromagnetic (EM) analysis
tools, schematic and layout, statistical design capability, and parametric cell
libraries with built-in design-rule check (DRC).
The cornerstone of the AWR design flow is its Unified Data Model (UDM),
a unique, single, object-oriented database synchronized at its core, within the
database, not through multiple layers of software and translators. Whether
designs are being driven from the schematic, simulation, or layout, the Microwave
Office design platform provides everything needed to take an idea from concept
MMIC power amplifier layout in Microwave Office.
through simulation and directly to physical implementation—all in one platform.
AWR’s software tools are continually enhanced with next-generation technologies to
ensure they represent the state-of-the-art in user-productivity. AWR innovations include
APLAC® harmonic balance simulation technology, ACE automated circuit extraction
technology, Intelligent Net (iNet) technology, AXIEM 3D planar EM technology, and
patent-pending Multi-Rate Harmonic Balance (MRHB) technology, to name a few.
ANALOG OFFICE
Based on the success of Microwave Office, sister product Analog Office® focuses
on providing a complete and comprehensive design environment for high-frequency
silicon processes. Because Analog Office shares AWR’s unique single design
environment, it enables users to control and seamlessly integrate
best-in-class tools to capture, synthesize, simulate, optimize, layout,
extract, and verify RFIC designs from system to final tape-out.
Just like Microwave Office, Analog Office software streamlines the
design process, increases productivity, and shortens time-to-market.
With support for SiGe, BiCMOS and RF CMOS processes, Analog
Office is widely used in the design of wireless communications
devices ranging from cellular phones and smartphones to a host of
other wireless-enabled devices.
Ring oscillator layout in Analog Office.
VSS gives us a deeper understanding of system
aspects. Its flexibility and open platform means
parameter optimization can quickly and easily be
done. With VSS we were able to successfully realize
our system.
Lars Pettersson, Research Engineer
Acreo AB
VISUAL SYSTEM SIMULATOR
Simulating and evaluating the performance of complete communications subsystem
requires tools that are dedicated to this unique environment. AWR’s VSS is just such
a software environment. It allows engineers to design the best system architecture
and optimize it through selection of the components most suited to produce the
desired performance. Users of VSS begin at the behavioral level, progress to the
component level in conjunction with Microwave Office or Analog Office design
suites, as well as use actual device measurements to validate the final design.
The result is reduced cost by eliminating rework and ensuring that
components are not over-specified and unnecessarily expensive. VSS
supports every communication standard in use throughout the wireless
industry, including UMTS (from GSM through LTE), CDMA2000,
DVB-H/DVB-T, WiMAX, IEEE 802.11 (WiFi), and Bluetooth. It also
lets users modify the characteristics of these standards to create
custom waveforms, which is valuable in the design of defense
communications systems and waveforms proprietary to a specific
organization.
EM TECHNOLOGY
As wireless-enabled devices offer more and more
features, designers are faced with the daunting
challenge of integrating them all within an unyielding
footprint. So AWR has had the foresight to develop a
tool that enables high-frequency electromagnetic (EM)
simulation to be factored into the design flow from the
beginning and not just for back-end verification.
AXIEM is specifically for 3D planar applications like RF
printed circuit boards (PCBs) and modules, antenna
and antenna arrays, and low temperature co-fired
ceramic (LTCC), monolithic microwave integrated
circuit (MMIC), and RFIC designs.
ANALYST™ is powerful, parallelized 3D FEM EM
simulation and analysis software that is seamlessly
integrated within the AWR Design Environment™
so you can move from circuit concept to full 3D EM
verification with a single mouse click.
Vivaldi antenna in AXIEM.
9 GHz X-Band system in Visual System
Simulator.
A key aim is to develop highly accurate models for
transistors and passives such as spiral inductors at
FOUNDRY
frequencies up to 40 GHz. Analog Office software
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AND CUSTOMERS
enables us to accurately model active devices, passives,
and interconnects on SoS so that our customers realize
first-time-right designs.
Yash Moghe, Design Engineering Manager
Silanna Semiconductor
AWR GAAS/GAN FOUNDRY PARTNERS
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Cree Inc.
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Global Communications Semiconductors (GCS)
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Northrop Grumman Space Technology
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OMMIC
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RFMD
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TriQuint Semiconductor
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United Monolithic Semiconductors (UMS)
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WIN Semiconductors
AWR SILICON FOUNDRY PARTNERS
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austriamicrosystems
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IHP Microelectronics
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JAZZ Semiconductor
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Peregrine Semiconductor
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Silanna Semiconductor
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TSMC
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IPL / iPDKs
AWR CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES
AWR’s customers range from handset manufacturers to military and satellite/
aerospace companies. The full list of success stories can be found on line at
www.awrcorp.com/success.
“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.”
RF Product Development Manager, Cree
“We strongly believe APLAC offers one of the most advanced analog design platforms
available, and plays a crucial role in helping us live up to our ‘right first time’ design
philosophy.”
Fellow, Nokia
AWR EXECUTIVE TEAM
Dane Collins has been an integral member of the EDA community for many years,
having managed both development and operations groups at EEsof, Inc., Cadence
Design Systems, and High Level Design Systems (HLD). Dane earned his BSEE in 1983
from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and began his career as a microwave circuit designer
at General Dynamics. In 1998 Dane joined AWR, first as vice president of engineering,
and then as executive vice president. In 2006 he was appointed CEO and has led the
company to many consecutive years of growth and profitability.
Dane Collins
CEO
Working on the development of advanced MMICs at Hughes Aircraft in the early
1990s, Dr. Pekarek was frustrated by the inadequacy of many of the leading highfrequency EDA tools available at the time. In 1994 he returned to school to earn his
Ph.D. and simultaneously launched AWR with the intent of developing a completely
new approach to designing high-frequency circuits. Dr. Pekarek earned his B.S.
in Electrical Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, his
M.S. in Electrical Engineering from California State University, Northridge, with a
specialization in electromagnetics and microwave circuits, and his Ph.D. in Numerical
Electromagnetics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with minors in
Scientific Computing and Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Pekarek holds a patent for a coplanar
waveguide quadrature coupler he developed while at Hughes Aircraft Company. In 2005
he was named IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer of the Year in recognition of his
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innovation in software design and his outstanding achievement in entrepreneurship.
Ted Miracco combines engineering expertise with extensive sales and marketing
experience at several leading EDA companies, including EEsof, Inc. and Cadence Design
Systems. He joined AWR in 1997, and has been a key force driving the company’s
success in sales and marketing. Ted is currently focused on AWR’s corporate strategy,
including worldwide sales, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate marketing. Ted
holds a B.A. degree from Carnegie Mellon University with double majors in electrical
and computer engineering. He also minored in and taught economics.
Ted Miracco
Executive Vice President
Sherry Hess joined AWR in 2007 as its Vice President of Marketing. In this role,
she is responsible for the strategic planning and execution of the company’s brand,
marketing and related activities. Sherry has more than 20 years of high-tech
experience in major account and international sales, marketing and management
with such companies as Intel Corporation, Ansoft Corporation, and CebaTech.
Sherry holds BSEE and MBA degrees from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, USA.
Sherry Hess,
Vice President of Marketing
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AWR Corporation
1960 E. Grand Avenue, Suite 430
El Segundo, CA 90245
+1 310 726 3000
+1 310 726 3005 (fax)
ANALOG OFFICE®
APLAC®
Copyright © 2012 AWR Corporation. All rights reserved. AWR, Analog Office, AXIEM and APLAC are
registered trademarks and the AWR logo, Microwave Office, Visual System Simulator, ACE, AWR Design
Environment, Unified Data Model, EM Socket, MRHB, iNet, TDNN, and Analyst are trademarks of AWR
Corporation. All others are the property of their respective holders.
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