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2 NI AWR Software Wireless Design: Trends and Challenges Next-generation wireless devices, communications infrastructure, and aerospace/defense electronic systems are creating new opportunities for engineers to design and develop RF/microwave products. These opportunities are contingent on delivering devices that achieve high performance goals for bandwidth, linearity, and efficiency while meeting market requirements for smaller, lighter, more reliable, and less costly devices. Furthermore, these challenges are compounded by business concerns such as escalating development costs, limited engineering resources, and time-to-market pressures. To fulfill product requirements, new semiconductor, PCB, and module technologies must achieve unprecedented integration and functionality within an increasingly smaller form factor. Therefore, engineers are demanding EDA tools that can: Accurately predict electrical performance as it relates to physical design Correctly account for excitations from complex waveforms used in communication and radar systems Offer a seamless flow-to-manufacturing process To address these trends and challenges, NI AWR Design Environment provides engineers with an integrated, open platform offering system, circuit, and EM simulation to accelerate the development of high-performance products. Analyst-MP AntSyn Additional Products NI AWR Design Environment Microwave Office Visual System Simulator AnalogOffice AXIEM Analyst Add-On Products AWR Connected ifilter imatch Network Synthesis RF Planner Radar Library 5G Library Wireless Communications Semiconductor Aerospace/Defense Consumer

3 EDA Software: AWR Advantages Powerful, Innovative UI An intuitive yet powerful design environment unleashes engineering productivity, allowing designers to address the emerging communication and radar systems driving today s RF/ microwave hardware developments and integration technology. System-aware simulation helps these technologists investigate and understand the connection between component and system performance. From exploring new, spectrally efficient architectures for better performance to specifying and verifying individual component requirements within next-generation systems, today s high-frequency electronics must be developed with simulation and test tools that provide whole system results. Robust Simulation Technologies Advanced simulation technologies provide fast, accurate results with fully integrated system, circuit, and EM analyses that accurately predict and optimize component performance before prototype manufacturing and test, saving development time and costs. For high-frequency components, designers must be able to analyze the design details that will impact electrical behavior, including transistor nonlinearities, sensitivity to terminal impedance mismatch, dispersion, parasitic coupling, and a host of other high-frequency phenomena. Simulation technology must support detailed device modeling and the same performance measurements used to specify the device requirements. Automation and User Productivity Design flow automation connects simulation models, third-party tools and layout geometries to manufacturing processes. As designs move from early concept through engineering sign-off, design details increase and emphasis switches from electrical performance to yield and design for manufacturing concerns, including design rule checking and layout versus schematic. Design flows are specific to PCB, MMIC, RFIC, and multi-chip module fabrication processes, requiring specialized support through process design kits and support for import/export of layout data such as GDSII and DXF or file formats such as IPC-2581 or ODB++ for interoperability with enterprise layout tools. AWR Learn more at ni.com/awr With intense time-to-market pressures, our designers need proven design flows that work seamlessly. NI AWR Design Environment fills this need. Dr. Simon Mahon, MACOM Electronics Biomedical Automotive Academia

4 NI AWR Design Environment Products Integrated, Open Platform for RF/Microwave Product Development Advantages Integrated Design Achieve successful high-frequency circuit and system product development from initial concept through final verification with powerful electrical/layout design capture and fully integrated system, circuit, and EM co-simulation. Intuitive Software developed by people who understand how RF/microwave products are designed and built offers an environment that simplifies complex tasks, reduces manual design entry, and supports state-of-the-art design flows. DRC/LVS System Design AWR Circuit Design Open Platform Design flow automation and interoperability with third-party tools enable product development to proceed unabated with less hassle and greater first-pass success. The software s COM API and scripting allow design teams to further automate and customize new capabilities within the platform. EM/Extraction Layout Simulation & Analysis Capabilities Unified Design Capture Provides front-to-back design flow for MMIC, RFIC, PCB, and module process technologies, enhancing productivity and first pass success with an innovative user interface and dynamically-linked electrical and layout design entry. Superior Design Management Integrates circuit, system, and EM simulation technologies within a comprehensive platform offering physical layout linked to simulation-ready schematic capture, supporting complex hierarchical projects and virtual test benches. Design Flow Automation Supports third-party interoperability with industry-standard tools, allowing seamless exchange of design data for schematic/netlist import, bi-directional EM co-simulation, ERC/DRC/LVS, and production-ready GDSII export. The power and speed of NI AWR Design Environment software made it possible to accurately and efficiently simulate the entire structure of this very complex NDPA MMIC. Dr. Chuck Campbell, Qorvo AWR NI AWR Design Environment Platform Microwave Office RF/Microwave Circuit Design Visual System Simulator Wireless Communication/Radar Systems Design Analog Office RFIC/Analog IC Circuit Design AXIEM 3D Planar EM Analysis Analyst 3D FEM EM Analysis

5 Microwave Office Products RF/Microwave Circuit Design Software Advantages Accelerate Design Starts Powerful design assistance tools such as filter, mixer, passive component, transmission line, and matching network synthesis, along with industry-leading load-pull analysis for power amplifier design, provide critical support for all phases of product development. Key Analyses Fast and accurate simulation technology offers robust circuit analysis and design insight, providing the linear/nonlinear time- and frequency-domain measurements required to properly characterize and optimize high-frequency electronics. RF Devices (Amplifiers, Filters, Passives, Control) MMICs (III-V Compound Semiconductors) RF and High-Speed PCBs Multi-C hip Modules Simulation-Ready Models Comprehensive libraries of high-frequency distributed transmission models, surface-mount vendor components, and process design kits from leading MMIC/RFIC foundries let engineers accurately simulate designs as they will be manufactured for greater success. Capabilities Smarter Design Entry The unified layout editor and schematic capture with RF-aware model libraries link electrical design and physical layout, ensuring greater simulation accuracy while allowing designers to visualize products before manufacture. Parametric control and circuit hierarchy support development of complex structures from user-generated building blocks, as well as design optimization and re-use. Insightful Simulation Analyze key performance metrics of RF and microwave circuits with frequencydomain linear simulation for RF/ microwave passive component and signal integrity applications and the APLAC harmonic balance/transient circuit simulation engine for nonlinear and digitally-modulated circuits such as power amplifiers, mixers, and oscillators. Design for Manufacturing A leading front-to-back MMIC design flow that enhances engineering productivity and ensures first-pass success is provided within a hierarchical framework that accurately captures the combined electrical performance of diverse IC and PCB process technologies, complex multilayer interconnects, embedded passives, and surface-mounted devices found in today s multi-chip RF modules. Schematic/Layout Design entry with industry-leading tuning APLAC Linear and nonlinear circuit simulation EM Analysis Fully integrated EM with AXIEM and Analyst Load-Pull State-of-the-art load-pull analysis Stability Includes both linear and nonlinear stability analysis DRC/LVS Design rule checking/layout vs. schematic TX-LINE Interactive calculator for transmission line analysis

6 Visual System Simulator Wireless Communication/Radar Systems Design Software Products Advantages Conceptualize Faster Rapidly construct communication and radar systems using RF/microwave and signal processing blocks based on measured, simulated, or projected behavior to investigate new architectures and study overall system performance. Account for Details Visual System Simulator (VSS) co-simulates with Microwave Office and Analog Office for RF/microwave and analog/rfic design, as well as AXIEM planar and Analyst arbitrary 3D EM solvers, to support communication measurements for individual components and accurate system performance verification. Component Specifications Communication Algorithm and Modulated Waveforms End-to-End Systems (Baseband Through RF and OTA) Wireless Conformance Tests (5G, LTE, and more ) Aerospace/Defense Systems (EW, ECM, ESM) Hardware in the Loop NI LabVIEW, MATLAB, and C++ co- simulation have plug-n-play support within VSS to expand capabilities, making custom models, scripts, and signal processing algorithms readily available. Additionally, for test and measurement compatibility, TestWave links test and measurement equipment such as network and spectrum analyzers into VSS. Capabilities Digitally-Modulated Systems Design system architectures and components with IP libraries for wireless communication standards, including LTE-A, 5G, Narrowband IoT, and more. Pre-configured test benches support transmitter conformance testing and receiver sensitivity analysis, as well as circuit co-simulation, for linearity measurements such as ACPR and BER of power amplifiers operating under high PAPR operations. Link Budgets Perform RF-cascaded measurements such as gain, noise figure, and thirdorder intercept while accounting for impedance mismatch throughout the signal path, identifying the source of spurious products and intermodulation, and simulating system metrics such as EVM. Design commercial and military transmitters and receivers by exploring different system architectures and optimizing component specifications for best overall performance. Phased-Array Systems Simulate critical antenna performance for phased arrays with a re-configurable model supporting thousands of radiating elements based on measured or simulated antenna data for the development of beam-forming algorithms, evaluation of hardware impairments, and RF link analysis. The model, which also accounts for mutual coupling between radiating elements for greater accuracy, can be configured as a MIMO antenna assembly. RF Chain Impairment Analysis RFA System-Level Planning Tool Co-Simulates With Microwave Office EVM, ACPR, and Phase Noise Measurements Wireless Communication Test Benches

7 AnalogOffice Products RFIC/Analog IC Circuit Design Software Advantages RF Focused A powerful yet cost-effective RFIC design platform that enables fast and accurate entry of design concepts, supporting design management with parasitic-aware component models, analyses, and design assistance that helps engineers study and understand the interdependencies of analog, RF, and mixed-signal design. RFIC Extraction Analog Office works with inet and ACE to perform interconnect modeling and parasitic extraction of IC structures created with the integrated layout editor or imported GDS II layouts from 3rd party IC layout tools. Small-Scale CMOS RFICs RF Front-End Sections of Large-Scale RFICs SiGe RFICs Multi-Chip Modules Analog Circuits IC Design Ecosystems Analog Office is fully integrated within the NI AWR Design Environment open platform, allowing designers to exchange design data between third-party IC layout and EM simulation tools. The Open Access import/export wizard transfers design schematic data between Analog Office and Cadence Virtuoso, supporting the transfer of IP between tools. Capabilities RFIC Design Flow Provides comprehensive simulation of RFIC technologies from system to final tapeout. The RF/microwave-aware active and passive device models, silicon foundry PDKs, and support for Spectre netlist simulation accurately capture the behavior of RF front-end blocks within an RFIC design, either as a stand-alone tool or as supplemental simulation software within a Cadence Virtuoso design flow. High Frequency Simulation Provides frequency-domain, harmonic balance, and transient simulations for small-scale RFICs and RF front-end blocks within large-scale RFICs to efficiently predict the performance of high dynamic range RF circuits operating at RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave frequencies for wireless communication and radar applications. Silicon PDKs PDKs for leading silicon foundries are developed for the open NI AWR Design Environment from foundry-supplied technology files, device models, and design rules. These PDKs are subjected to extensive validation at both cell and circuit level to ensure quality and conformance to best-in-class design methodologies for high-frequency RFIC designs, accelerating silicon tapeouts and enabling first-pass success. Schematic/Layout Design entry with industry-leading tuning APLAC Linear and nonlinear circuit simulation Parasitic Extraction Fully integrated EM DRC/LVS Design rule checking/layout vs. schematic PDKs Process design kits (PDKs) for silicon foundries

8 AXIEM Products 3D Planar EM Analysis Software Advantages Fast and Accurate Fast, adaptive hybrid meshing technology supports thick-metal structures and vias, automatically fracturing structures into triangular and rectangular elements for maximum accuracy and robust broadband results, from DC to daylight. On-Chip and Off-Chip Passives IC, PCB, and Module Interconnects Unparalleled Integration AXIEM is seamlessly tied to circuit and system simulation, layout, and verification through the proprietary AWR unified data model (UDM), enabling direct EM extraction without having to perform explicit layout and EM simulation setup steps and directly incorporating results into circuit and/or system simulations. Extraction of Critical Transmission Lines (Nets) Design Verification of Layout Antenna Design and Analysis Versatile Extensive sources/ports, including auto-calibrated internal ports and de-embedding options, provide greater flexibility and accuracy for structures with embedded circuit-based, lumped-element components and active devices such as transistors. Capabilities Passive Modeling Provides 3D planar EM simulation of transmission lines and arbitrary structures on single and multi-layer circuits using method-of-moments (MoM) technology with advance meshing to accurately compute S-, Y-, and Z-parameters, as well as current densities of multilayer RFICs, MMICs, PCBs, hybrids, and MCMs. Planar Antenna Design Perform analysis and post-processing of planar antennas and planar arrays. The fast N*Log(N) solver technology addresses large, complex arrays that were previously impractical to simulate in their entirety. Post-processing includes the ability to show currents on antennas and 2D/3D far-field antenna pattern measurements for linear, circular, and elliptical polarizations. Optimization and Yield Perform accurate design diagnostics such yield analysis and optimization for passive components and complex interconnects, capturing true coupling and parasitic effects of circuit topologies that are specified parametrically and/or defined through rules-based shape modifiers/de-featuring. We chose AXIEM because of its speed, capacity, and accuracy. It helped us deliver a higher performing product in less time. Shinichi Goto, Toshiba Layout/Drawing Editor 2D and 3D views Proprietary Method-of-Moments Technology Meshing Technology Automatic adaptive meshing Numerous Sources and Excitations Visualization and Results Post-Processing Parametric Studies Optimization, tuning, and yield analysis HPC Multi-core configurations and asynchronous simulation

9 Analyst Products 3D Finite Element Method EM Analysis Software Advantages Diagnostics and Design Electromagnetic simulation can detect design problems that cause products to fail performance requirements. With 3D EM simulation easily available within an RF/microwave design fl ow, n On-Chip and Off-Chip Passives n 3D IC, PCB, and Module Interconnects n Hierarchical Interconnect, Common to SoC, SiP Parametric Cells n Design Verification of Layout, Including Finite Dielectrics Libraries of parameterized EM cells for common and custom n 3D Antenna Design and Analysis engineers can identify and eliminate potential design failures. 3D interconnects and passive PCB and IC components allow designers to incorporate with a simple drag and place true electrical responses in real time during the design process. Robust Solver A full 3D FEM solver technology with adaptive volumetric tetrahedral meshing, direct and iterative solvers, and discrete and fastfrequency sweeps to accurately characterize interconnect structures, dense circuitry, and antenna structures. Capabilities 3D Modeling Design Exploration Antenna Analysis Proprietary FEM solver technology Improve performance and mitigate Analyze 3D and 2D antennas, including supports simulation of arbitrary 3D design problems from unforeseen patch antennas/arrays on finite structures, including thin and thick resonances and coupling between dielectrics, plotted near- and far- field metals, finite dielectrics, and surface structures automatically with 3D EM radiation patterns, gain plots, return roughness, addressing structures such parametric studies, supporting loss, and surface currents. Designs can as MMIC, RFIC, PCB, and module- optimization, tuning, and yield analysis. be created with the 2D and/or 3D based designs and related interconnects Domain and spectral decomposition editors, converted from an AXIEM such as wire-bonds and ball grid arrays, combine with remote computing to structure, or imported from ACIS, Step, as well as waveguides, coaxial expedite simulation run times and and IGES files. connectors, and hybrid circuit housings. provide answers faster. Layout/Drawing Editor 2D/3D construction and views Proprietary FEM Full-Wave Technology Meshing Technology Automatic and adaptive meshing Numerous Sources and Excitations for Ports Visualization and Results Post-Processing Parametric Studies Optimization, tuning, and yield analysis HPC Multi-core configurations and asynchronous simulation

10 Additional Products AntSyn Web-based antenna synthesis technology for automated antenna design that takes antenna engineering requirements as input and produces antenna designs as output. Browser-Based Interface Cloud-Based Execution Proprietary Evolutionary Algorithm Diverse Range Of Antenna Types Export to EM Solvers and CAD Tools High Efficiency Wire and Planar Phased Arrays Single, Dual, and Multi-Band Broadband and UWB (>100:1) We chose NI AWR software because of the proven success of AntSyn and Analyst. The resulting designs worked from the start and removed the iteration and experimentation usually required in antenna design efforts. Mark Ross, Striiv Analyst-MP Analyst multi-physics (MP) is an expanded technology suite of Analyst 3D FEM EM focused on big, multi-physics applications like particle accelerators, waveguides, and complex resonators. Layout/Drawing Editor Automatic and Adaptive Meshing Full-Wave, Quasi-Static Multi-Physics Solvers Domain/Spectral Decomposition Particle Accelerators Waveguides Cavities Microwave Tubes/Plumbing Resonators Visualization/Results Post-Processing AWR Innovations AWR Founded Unified Data Model (UDM) XML Libraries Multi-Technology Support Measurement-Driven Simulation Real-Time Tuning VSS Circuit/ System Co-Simulation X-Models EM Socket APLAC ACE RFA

11 Add-On Products AWR Connected A collection of plug-and-play modules that integrates NI AWR software with third-party software/hardware products to provide a range of solutions for the design of high-frequency products. AWR Connected includes design synthesis, PCB layout/verification, and EM/thermal analysis, as well as test and measurement connectivity. Synthesis AMCAD PCB Cadence EM/Thermal ANSYS T&M National Instruments AMPSA DWT CapeSym Anritsu Nuhertz Intercept CST Focus Microwaves Optenni Lab Mentor Graphics Sonnet Software Maury Microwave Zuken WIPL-D Rohde & Schwarz ifilter An NI AWR Design Environment integrated filter synthesis module that runs seamlessly as a wizard within Microwave Office software. It enables filter designers to accelerate design starts with powerful synthesis of lumped and distributed filter types, with a ready transition of the resulting circuit topologies into Microwave Office for further refinement, optimization, EM verification, and physical design. imatch An integrated impedance- matching module (and sub-component of ifilter) that runs seamlessly as a wizard within Microwave Office software. It quickly and easily takes the user through the process of evaluating different matching topologies and selecting the optimal solution based on certain user-specified requirements. Network Synthesis (SWS) An add-on module for synthesizing various circuit topologies, inclusive of antennas, mixers, amplifiers, and more. A key wizard within the module, network synthesis, helps PA designers and front-end system integrators save time developing impedance-matching for optimum performance. RF Planner (RFP) A radio-frequency planner wizard that works seamlessly with VSS software as an essential utility for designers of radio communications systems, cellular, or military radio links, allowing them to effortlessly and efficiently determine spurious-free bandwidths. Radar Library (RDR) A radar test bench and phased-array library module that works seamlessly with VSS software to support radar applications, including military, medical, weather, and automotive. RDR offers radar signal generation, radar-specific target and propagation modeling, and radar signal processing capabilities. 5G Library (W5G) A 5G modulation waveforms library that includes test benches and phased-array features. It works seamlessly with VSS software and gives VSS users access to current 5G candidate signals, each of which can then be implemented as a fully-parameterizable block with source subcircuits. AXIEM Memory Effects TDNN Analyst AntSyn Network Synthesis MRHB NI Acquires AWR Circuit Envelope RFP Load-Pull System-Level Load Pull

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