Applied Wave Research, (AWR), a leading provider of high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA) tools, has teamed with test and measurement company, Rohde & Schwarz. The partnership will offer test solutions using Rohde & Schwarz high-specification T&M instruments with AWR software. The companies say these solutions provide seamless bi-directional transfer of data between instruments and EDA software, as well as provide the unique ability to use measured data in place of models when simulating complex systems.
Additional to this, Rohde & Schwarz will strengthen the AWR sales channel by providing Microwave Office and Visual System Simulator (VSS) design solutions throughout Europe.
"AWR's TestWave software used in conjunction with the new Rohde & Schwarz high-performance vector network analyser, ZVB, provides design engineers with the ability to gather measured data and use that data in conjunction with our circuit simulation tools in Microwave Office design suite," said Chris Paris, director of European operations for AWR.
"This enables designers to investigate such phenomena as heating effects in transistors and their effect on overall circuit performance. At the system level, AWR's Visual System Simulator 2004 (VSS2004) software links directly with Rohde & Schwarz' industry-leading, digital signal generators and vector signal analysers, enabling schematic simulation, test signal generation, and dynamic data gathering so that wireless system designers can perform trade-off studies with 'hardware-in-the-loop'."
Through the unique AWR Design Environment, an advanced software architecture built on a modern, inherently open, object-oriented data model, the TestWave product integrates T&M equipment with the VSS2004 design suite. This solution provides wireless system designers with a complete integration of the design process and the ability to make interactive trade-offs between system requirements and system implementation. Together, the VSS2004 and TestWave products combine schematic simulation, test signal generation, and T&M verification. Accessing these previously disjointed phases of the development process from the same environment saves time and speeds products to market.
The AWR Design Environment is an advanced software architecture built on a modern, inherently open, object-oriented data model. Through this, the TestWave product integrates T&M equipment with the VSS2004 design suite. This solution provides wireless system designers with a complete integration of the design process and the ability to make interactive trade-offs between system requirements and system implementation. Together, the VSS2004 and TestWave products combine schematic simulation, test signal generation, and T&M verification.
For more information contact Dries van Schalkwyk, DS Communications, +27 (0)11 314 4101, [email protected]
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