Complete RF And Microwave Design Flow with AWR Design Environment Tabish Khan, AWR Corporation
Traditional Serial Design Flow Separate tools, user interfaces, netlists and databases System Design Design Capture Simulate/ Analyze Layout Verify EM/ Extract time Data FIles Data Dispersion Netlist Data Dispersion Data FIles Data Dispersion Netlist Data Dispersion Data Files Data Dispersion Netlist Manufacture AWR concurrent/synchronous design flow System Design Design Capture Simulate/ Analyze AWR Unified Data Model Layout Typical 30% to 70% design cycle time reduction and better product performance with fewer design spins time Verify EM/ Extract Manufacture
Microwave Office RF and Microwave Design Software Concurrent electrical/physical design Powerful circuit and EM simulation Fast tune, optimize, yield analysis RF aware layout MMIC design and layout GaAs, GaN, SiGe, foundry PDK s Module design and layout MIC, LTCC, RF PCB
AWR s EXTRACT Flow Automates creation of EM Documents: Creates geometry from layout Selects EM simulator of choice Automatically adds ports Sophisticated auto-mesh Rapid design iterations Allows EM results to be seamlessly included in any of the circuit simulations that are supported by the AWR Design Environment AWR Company Confidential Reduce engineering overhead
AXIEM 3D Planar EM Analysis Software On chip passives PCB interconnect Planar antennas Fast and accurate!
Analyst TM Finite Element, Open Boundary 3D Solver Highly Distributed, Very High Capacity Standalone for truly 3D structures such as waveguides, filters, connectors/transitions, cavities, magnets, tubes, antennas. Integrated into MWO AWR Company Confidential
Visual System Simulator for RF System Simulation RF Budget Cascade gain Input/output IP3 Noise figure, etc. RF Inspector Heritage tone inspector to identify the cause of an inter-modulation product of an RF link The most complete RF system simulation functionality in one integrated tool RF System End-to-End analysis C/N, BER, ACPR, EVM, etc. Circuit co-simulation LabView co-simulation Communication Standards WiMAX, IS2000, UWB, WCDMA 3GPP LTE, QAM, OQPSK, MPSK, GSM EDGE, DVB, 802.11a/b/g, etc.
AWR s Visual System Simulator EDA Solution for Communications Systems Mode s include: Time Domain Complex Envelope Spur Analysis RF Link simulation includes Amplifier, Mixer, Filter Co-simulate with MWO circuits Co-simulate with hardware Measurements include Spectrum EVM Adjacent Channel Power Perform end-to-end simulations
LabVIEW VSS Co-simulation
Why Connect LabVIEW and VSS? + Control instruments from AWR s VSS environment Characterize simulated RF parts with LabVIEW algorithms & measurements Ultimate goal: correlate physical measurements with simulation 2013 AWR Corporation. All rights reserved.
Measurements in the Design Flow Design Verification Product Verification Research/Modeling Design/Simulation Verification/Validation Manufacturing Measurements to create models Hardware in the Loop to improve simulations Verification Test Production Test 2013 AWR Corporation. All rights reserved.
RADAR System Design with VSS & LabVIEW cv Complete RADAR System Simulation in AWR VSS Complete RADAR System Prototype with PXI VSA cv FPGA VSG
Future Integration Vision Component Testing Dimension Cross-domain Design Dimension MWO Receiver Frontend VSS Instrument Control LV based Algorithms LV VSG/VSA/HW Interface FPGA/HW Interface PXI Deploy Prototyping Dimension 2013 AWR Corporation. All rights reserved.
VSS Radar Library 2013 AWR Corporation. All rights reserved.
RADAR Tx Chain Analysis Analysis methods in VSS include Link budget analysis Spur analysis Custom analysis possible in LabVIEW AMP_B Behavioral PA or NL_S TP M_PROBE PORTDIN BPFB AMP_B BPFB IN MIXER_B OUT BPFE AMP_B BPFE IN MIXER_B OUT BPFB AMP_B BPFB ISOLATOR PORTDOUT 1 2 10MHz LO LO 9015MHz TONE TONE MMIC PA 340MHz 8665MHz 2013 AWR Corporation. All rights reserved.
S4\BPFB (F1) S4\AMP_B (A1) S4\BPFB (F2) S4\MIXER_B (Mixer1) S4\BPFE (F3) S4\AMP_B (A2) S4\BPFE (F4) S4\MIXER_B (Mixer2) S4\BPFB (F5) S4\AMP_B (A5) S4\AMP_B (A4) S4\BPFB (F6) S4\ISOLATOR (S8) TX_ANTENNA (S7) S4\BPFB (F1) S4\AMP_B (A1) S4\BPFB (F2) S4\MIXER_B (Mixer1) S4\BPFE (F3) S4\AMP_B (A2) S4\BPFE (F4) S4\MIXER_B (Mixer2) S4\BPFB (F5) S4\AMP_B (A5) S4\AMP_B (A4) S4\BPFB (F6) S4\ISOLATOR (S8) TX_ANTENNA (S7) Link Budget Analysis Results: Cascaded NF Available Gain Spurs 100 0-100 -200 Spurs 60 RFI for TX RFB Cumulative Gain for TX DB(C_GA(TP.Start,TP.Stop,1,0,1))[1] RFB Tx System 40 20 9015 MHz 59.55 dbm 14 59.54 db p1-300 0 5 DB(C_NF(TP.Start,TP.Stop,0,1,0,1))[1] RFB Tx System RFB C_NF for TX p1 p1: Available Gain, Cumulative, db Freq=9015 MHz -400-5000 -200 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 30000 35000 40000 Frequency (MHz) RFB Cumulative Gain for TX 60 p1 4 4.647 db 40 DB(C_GA(TP.Start,TP.Stop,1,0,1))[1] RFB Tx System 14 59.54 db 3 2 1 Noise Figure p1: Cascaded Noise Figure, Signal, Cumulative, db Freq=9015 MHz 20 0 Gain p1: Available Gain, Cumulative, db Freq=9015 MHz 0-20 S4\BPFB (F1) S4\AMP_B (A1) S4\BPFB (F2) S4\MIXER_B (Mixer1) S4\BPFE (F3) S4\AMP_B (A2) S4\BPFE (F4) S4\MIXER_B (Mixer2) S4\BPFB (F5) S4\AMP_B (A5) S4\AMP_B (A4) S4\BPFB (F6) S4\ISOLATOR (S8) TX_ANTENNA (S7) 2013 AWR Corporation. All rights reserved.
RADAR Antenna Models in VSS RX antenna model can have multiple inputs to allow for interfering signals and/or clutter THETA and PHI can be specified for Desired Signal, Jammer, Clutter, etc. Corresponding gain and phase are picked off antenna pattern Multiple Theta Phi cuts Desired signal & Clutter Jammer 2013 AWR Corporation. All rights reserved.
RADAR in VSS Baseband in LabVieW 2013 AWR Corporation. All rights reserved.
MTD Algorithm in LabVIEW Input 2013 AWR Corporation. All rights reserved.
Example Output of MTD Algorithm MIN RANGE VERSUS CLUTTER MIN RANGE VERSUS CLUTTER 2013 AWR Corporation. All rights reserved.
RADAR System Design with VSS & LabVIEW cv Complete RADAR System Simulation in AWR VSS Complete RADAR System Prototype with PXI VSA cv FPGA VSG
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