Industry-Leading RF / Microwave Design Platform
Cadence AWR Design Environment
A comprehensive electronic design automation (EDA) platform for developing RF / microwave products — circuit, system, and EM simulation under one roof. Microwave Office for circuits, Visual System Simulator for systems, AXIEM for planar EM. Built for the engineers shipping 5G, radar, MMICs, and RFICs.
Overview
Industry-Leading RF Design — Circuit, System, EM
AWR Design Environment is built for all aspects of RF / Microwave design. From amplifiers and antennas to 5G communications and radar, integrated system + circuit + EM simulation delivers fast, accurate analysis before prototype manufacturing — and before any of it goes to test.
Powerful intuitive UI, smart customisable design flows, integrated solvers, and design-flow automation that connects simulation models, third-party tools, and layout through to manufacturing.
Comprehensive Environment
A powerful and intuitive UI with smart, customisable design flows for today's high-frequency semiconductor and PCB technologies — optimal engineering productivity, no toolchain friction.
Unmatched Speed & Accuracy
Integrated system, circuit, and EM simulation — fast and accurate analysis of device performance before prototype manufacturing and test. Save development time and cost.
Automation Built on Experience
Design-flow automation connects simulation models, third-party tools, and layout to manufacturing processes — from early concept exploration to engineering signoff.
Applications
Solve Your Toughest RF Design Challenges
Targeted solutions across every dimension of RF / Microwave engineering — no matter the challenge.
Amplifiers
Address bandwidth, efficiency, and linearity head-on with advanced harmonic-balance simulation, powerful load-pull analysis, and impedance-matching circuit synthesis.
Antennas
Design, optimise, and integrate antennas / arrays using AWR EM technologies to simulate gain, return loss, radiation efficiency, and currents with certainty.
Communications
Develop and integrate 5G-enabling technologies with the AWR phased-array generator, standard-specific 5G signal waveforms, and virtual RF modulated test benches.
Filters
Integrated planar MoM, 3D FEM, and EM solvers to design complex filters with low passband insertion loss and sufficient stopband rejection.
Passives
Successful passive component design — reduce device footprint, costs, and insertion losses while increasing power-handling capability.
Radar
Accurately model signal generation, transmission, phased arrays, T/R switching, clutter, noise, jamming, and signal processing for modern radar systems.
Products
Three Core Tools, One Design Environment
Pick the tool matched to where you are in the RF flow — circuit, system, or EM.
Microwave Office
Circuit design software for RF / microwave product development — synchronous schematic / layout, APLAC harmonic-balance simulation, load-pull, stability, DRC / LVS.
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Visual System Simulator
System simulation for wireless communications and radar — VSWR-aware behavioural models, circuit envelope, 5G / LTE / NB-IoT test benches, BER / EVM / ACPR analysis.
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AXIEM
3D planar method-of-moments (MoM) EM solver for passive structures, transmission lines, planar antennas, and patch arrays. S-parameter extraction for RF PCB, modules, MMIC, RFIC.
Learn MoreAlso part of the AWR portfolio: Analyst (3D FEM EM) and the Modelithics RF Library. Ask Craftronics for details.
What's New — AWR v22.1
Highlights From the Latest Release
Allegro to Virtuoso Platform
Import designs into the Virtuoso platform for multi-technology integration — bridge package-level and silicon-level RF design.
AWR to Allegro Platform
Integrate RF IP directly into PCB manufacturing layout — close the loop from RF design through to fabrication-ready data.
AWR & Multiphysics
Integrations with Clarity 3D Solver and Celsius Thermal Solver — couple EM, structural, and thermal analysis in a single flow.
Additional features in v22.1
Version Control
Collaboration between multiple designers with revision history across complex, multi-function projects.
EMX 3D Planar Solver Integration
Run EM analysis on silicon Virtuoso PDK RF circuits from within AWR — foundry-approved EMX passives.
Hybrid Optimizer
New hybrid optimiser combining the best performance of several optimisers across a wide range of problems.
VSS File Expansion
Easier waveform data import / export for DPD, DUT evaluation, and receiver testing.
Spectre RF Option Integration
Easy setup of Spectre RF simulation in AWR plus a netlist import utility for RFIC / module co-design.
Synthesizer Wizards
Component Synthesis Wizard adds new passive microstrip structures; Mixer / Multiplier Synthesis Wizard now available.
Technologies
Multi-Fabric Implementations
Designed to support your RF / Microwave work across every fabric — from on-chip RF structures to full RF board solutions.
RF PCBs
Layout-driven design for complex RF PCBs — circuit / system / EM co-simulation for first-pass success on transmission lines, surface-mount components, and embedded distributed passives.
RF Modules
Multi-chip module design — model many technologies in one space: interconnects, embedded distributed components, RF, analog, and digital blocks.
MMICs
Front-to-back MMIC flow for III-V devices — reliable circuit simulation, EM verification, communication test benches, design entry through physical realisation.
RFIC
Complete small-scale RFICs or RF front ends for large-scale RFICs — system- to transistor-level design with HB and transient time-domain analysis.
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The RF / Microwave Platform of Choice
Talk to Craftronics about the AWR Design Environment — Microwave Office, VSS, AXIEM, and the full RF flow.