RF / Microwave Circuit Design Software
AWR Microwave Office
Circuit design software that delivers accurate simulation for RF / microwave product development. Intuitive interface, innovative design automation, and powerful harmonic-balance circuit simulation — engineering productivity that accelerates today's most challenging high-frequency design cycles.
Overview
Built for High-Frequency Engineering Productivity
Leading manufacturers use Microwave Office to accelerate product development of high-frequency electronics. The intuitive interface, innovative design automation, and powerful harmonic-balance circuit simulation deliver greater engineering productivity and accelerated design cycles.
RF-aware layout, high-frequency models, design automation, and a powerful HB simulator combine in one environment — no toolchain stitching for amplifier, mixer, or RFIC work.
Key Features
What Microwave Office Brings
Schematic / Layout
Synchronous schematic / layout design entry with industry-leading interactive tuning. RF-aware layout from day one — not a generic editor.
APLAC Simulator
Linear and nonlinear harmonic-balance circuit simulation via the proprietary APLAC engine. Industrial-strength HB for amplifiers, mixers, oscillators.
Integrated EM Analysis
Fully integrated electromagnetic analysis with AWR AXIEM (planar) and AWR Analyst (3D FEM) — circuit + EM co-simulation under one interface.
State-of-the-Art Load-Pull
Advanced load-pull analysis with harmonic and video-band tuning — push amplifier designs to the edge of the envelope with confidence.
Stability Analysis
New fast, rigorous loop circuit envelope analysis for multi-stage and balanced amplifier stability — catch oscillation risks before silicon.
DRC / LVS
Design rule checking and layout-versus-schematic — the production-grade sign-off rigour you expect for tape-out.
Applications
Built for the RF Designer's Daily Work
Power Amplifier Design
Harmonic-balance + load-pull is the gold-standard PA design loop — and it lives inside Microwave Office.
Filter Design
Integrated planar / 3D EM solvers cover complex filter design with low passband insertion loss and clean stopband rejection.
Mixers & Multipliers
Frequency-conversion device design with full nonlinear support — and Wizard-driven mixer / multiplier synthesis.
Oscillators
Steady-state and transient oscillator analysis with rigorous stability and noise prediction.
MMIC / RFIC Co-Design
III-V and silicon foundry PDK support — front-to-back co-design with EM extraction and IC layout integration.
Matching Networks
Impedance-matching circuit synthesis with automated network topology generation — passive design without trial-and-error.
Circuit + EM Co-Simulation
Where Circuit Meets Electromagnetic
Microwave Office isn't a circuit-only tool. EM analysis is integrated directly — pass schematics into AWR AXIEM (planar MoM) for transmission lines, passive structures, and planar antennas, or into AWR Analyst (3D FEM) for full 3D interconnects. The result: circuit-and-EM closed-loop design, no manual handoffs, no impedance mismatches at the tool boundary.
Integrated EM solvers
- AXIEM — 3D planar MoM for transmission lines & passives
- Analyst — 3D FEM for full 3D EM verification
- EMX — silicon Virtuoso PDK RF circuits
- EM-aware layout — RF-aware drawing tools
- Schematic-driven EM extraction (EXTRACT)
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Works Well With
AXIEM
Integrated 3D planar MoM EM solver — pass MWO schematics in for accurate passive characterisation.
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Visual System Simulator
System-level Tx / Rx design — VSS co-simulates with Microwave Office for top-down RF system development.
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Clarity 3D Solver
Cadence multiphysics EM solver — pair with MWO for gold-standard 3D EM verification of RF interconnects.
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The Industry's RF Circuit Design Workhorse
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