The agenda has been set and registration opened for three venues within the Russia leg of the 2016 AWR Design Forum (ADF). Now in its third consecutive year within Russia, ADF will be held Tuesday, 13 September in Zelenograd, Moscow, Wednesday, 14 September in St. Petersburg and Thursday, 15 September in Moscow.

A new and improved EM Socket II architecture within NI AWR Design Environment has been developed in order to enhance the AWR Connected for EM interoperability between third-party electromagnetic (EM) simulation tools and the company’s flagship high-frequency circuit design software, Microwave Office.

An envelope tracking power amplifier (ETPA) using real-time efficiency and linearity measurements for optimising ETPA design, with flexibility to accommodate different 5G signals has been developed by MaXentric Technologies. The use of NI AWR Design Environment, specifically Microwave Office circuit design software and AXIEM 3D planar EM simulator, enabled the designers to significantly reduce PA optimisation time without sacr...

The AWR Design Forum (ADF2016), an open forum that brings together NI AWR software customers and partners as well as microwave and RF engineering professionals to learn, network and collaborate on the design of today's microwave and RF circuits and systems, kicks off its sixth consecutive year on July 8 in Tokyo. 

Students at Technion—Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel have successfully designed a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) using NI AWR Design Environment. The design challenge was to build an efficient, easy-to-use SAR simulator that would connect to MATLAB for signal processing and that could handle many targets on the surface and then use MATLAB to calculate the object shapes.

The NI/AWR Design Environment will be featured in the second annual National Instruments-sponsored RF/microwave power amplifier (PA) design forum at European Microwave Week 2015 in Paris on September 9 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. This design forum, entitled, “Device Technologies, Characterisation, Modelling and End-Use Applications,” will focus on the device technologies, characterisation, modelling and end-use applications of RF and ...

The AWR Connected for DWT, a new NI AWR Design Environment flow enables integration with Design Workshop Technologies’ (DWT) design-rule checking (DRC) and/or layout vs. schematic (LVS) tools for printed circuit board (PCB) and module design.  The new AWR Connected for DWT DRC and LVS flow can run in one of two ways: in the full view/DWT user-interface (UI) mode or transparently from within the Microwave Office UI.  

NI (formerly AWR Corporation), says that the NI AWR Design Environment V12—the first major software release in 2015—is now available as a pre-release to select customers, partners and evaluators. Previewing for the first time at International Microwave Symposium 2015 (IMS2015) in Phoenix (May 18-22) this latest release boasts new load-pull and antenna- and radar-specific features, as well as ease-of-use improvements, speed enhancement...

This application note describes the design and simulation of a simple PCB antenna for 2.4 and 5.6GHz using Nl AWR Design Environment, inclusive of Microwave Office circuit design software and AXIEM 3D EM planar simulator.

ISM radio bands have traditionally been reserved internationally for the use of RF for Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) purposes. In recent years, the fastest-growing uses of these bands have been for short-range, low-power, communications systems. Cordless phones, Bluetooth devices, NFC devices and wireless computer networks all now use ISM.

AWR and ANYS have announced the successful integration of ANSYS HFSS into AWR's Microwave Office high frequency circuit design software. This integration unites the industry standard for full-wave EM field simulation and NI AWR Design Environment/Microwave Office to quickly and accurately simulate microwave circuits.

AWR has extended its 2013 ADF tour into 2014.  The final venues added to the tour are on May 20 in Haifa and May 21 in Tel-Aviv. It is a free and open event where designers of microwave and RF circuits and systems can network, share useful information and resources pertinent to high-frequency design, and collaborate on industry issues and trends. 

Italian electronics developer, Cover Sistemi used AWR software to design an ultra-wideband (UWB) receiver from concept to final production in a single pass. Specifications were for a complete design starting from the antenna through to the entire RF/baseband analog chain down to the AD converter.

AWR Corporation has announced the availability of a free excerpt of the new eBook from Professor Francesco Fornetti, Conquer Radio Frequency – A Multimedia Conceptual Guide to RF and Microwave Engineering. 

Prism Microwave uses AWR's Microwave Office circuit design software for its cavity filter tuning and optimization, as well as the design of active RF electronics and planar components on printed circuit boards, including low noise amplifiers, drivers, power amplifiers, dividers, hybrids, attenuators, oscillators, and planar/discrete filters.

AWR has released V11 Analyst-MP - multiphysics finite element method (FEM) electromagnetic (EM) analysis software.   It is an application-specific product offering that leverages the capabilities within the Analyst 3D FEM EM simulation and analysis software while targeting big, multiphysics applications like particle accelerators.

AWR has revealed that it will exhibit from Booth A505 at the 2013 Microwave Workshops and Exhibition from November 27 to 29 in Yokohama, Japan. At the show, AWR will be conducting software demonstrations of the AWR Design Environment to inform and educate attendees about key features and applications.

AWR has finalized the agendas and opened registration for the 11 remaining venues of its ADF European tour.  ADF is a free and open event where designers of microwave and RF circuits and systems such as monolithic microwave integrated circuits, RF printed circuit boards, and LTE communication systems can network, share useful information and resources pertinent to high-frequency design, and collaborate on industry issues and trends.

NXP's ultra-wideband Doherty reference design has been updated. Now AWR Microwave Office design environment ready, the updated reference design incorporates the BLF884P and BLF884PS transistors for ultra-wideband Doherty power amplifiers (which operate from 470 to 806 MHz) and a 70 W DVB-T UWB LDMOS reference design (which uses NXP’s patent-pending architecture capable of operating over an ultra-wideband spectrum in the UHF broadcast spectr...

AWR announce AWR Connected for AMPSA, a synthesis-through-simulation design flow specifically developed to improve design throughput and productivity for amplifier designers. AMPSA’s software provides synthesis solutions for impedance-matching networks and high dynamic range RF and microwave amplifiers that integrate directly with AWR’s Microwave Office circuit design software.