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AWR Corp. offers the second in a series of white papers addressing RF/Microwave design flow issues. This latest offering, “EDA Software Design Flow Considerations for the RF/Microwave Module Designer,” outlines the steps for implementing an integrated design flow within the Microwave Office® design suite for an MCM microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC) design. 

AWR Corp. in partnership with parent company National Instruments teamed with Texas Tech University to supply Microwave Office® RF/microwave software for use in a cancer research project that resulted in the invention of the revolutionary Smart Radar for non-invasively tracking tumors during radiation therapy.

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA Software, will be exhibiting in Booth A505 at the 2013 Microwave Workshops and Exhibition (MWE 2013) from November 27 to 29 in Yokohama, Japan. Software demonstrations of the AWR Design Environment™ will inform and educate attendees about key features and applications.

Chenchen Li, a graduate student from the University of Texas at Austin has taken the first prize in the 2013 FEKO Student Competition.

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA Software, is co-hosting with CST and National Instruments a complimentary series on high-frequency design, simulation, and test workshops in Brazil and Argentina this month.

A new AWR Customer Success Story details how North Carolina State University (NCSU) students enrolled in an advanced RF/microwave research and design course used AWR’s Microwave Office® and AXIEM® software to successfully complete their senior design project for a low-noise GPS amplifier and an X-Band power amplifier targeting the 8-10GHz frequency span.

Linear Technology Corp. announces a native Mac OS X release of its popular LTspice® IV simulation program. This new release of LTspice supports Mac OS X 10.7+ platforms and has similar capabilities and features as its Windows counterpart.

Exelis successfully completed factory acceptance testing for the Global Positioning System (GPS) III navigation payload simulator software. Developed by Exelis, the software will simulate the behavior of GPS signals in space, which will be used for testing the U.S. Air Force's next generation GPS ground station known as the operational control system (OCX). The simulator will be integrated into the Raytheon-developed GPS System Simulator (GSYS) within OCX.

AVX Corp. announces the availability of new Modelithics models for its 0402 tight tolerance, high current, and high Q multilayer organic (MLO) inductor series. The latest additions to AVX’s Modelithics Component Model Library are part-value sensitive, substrate scalable, and fully integrated with a range of software applications.

AWR Corp. has launched a fully redesigned AWR.TV portal directly from within its main website framework to enhance the viewing experience of AWR’s hundreds of demos and tutorial videos. The new AWR.TV platform now supports multiple platforms for ready viewing on mobile devices such as iPads, iPhones, and Android handsets/tablets. Recently added additions to the AWR.TV platform include AWR’s nine MicroApps presentations from IMS 2013.