AWR Design Environment brings together RF design, EM analysis, antenna development, and system simulation in a single workflow—allowing engineering teams to move faster from concept to production-ready RF designs with greater confidence in their decisions.
An RF design may perform perfectly at the schematic level—but behave differently once layout effects, parasitics, electromagnetic coupling, or antenna integration come into play.
At high frequencies, even small geometric changes can have a significant electrical impact.
As a result, RF development is often divided across:
AWR Design Environment brings these disciplines together in a single, connected RF workflow.
AWR Design Environment combines multiple RF and microwave technologies in one integrated workflow.
Microwave Office brings schematic capture, layout, and circuit simulation together for RF and microwave development.
The environment supports both linear and nonlinear RF workflows, enabling engineering teams to simulate amplifiers, filters, matching networks, mixers, and complete RF signal chains within a layout-aware design environment.
This helps teams:
AXIEM provides planar EM analysis for RF structures, antennas, interconnects, and PCB layouts.
The solver enables accurate EM verification directly within the design flow—without requiring separate simulation environments.
This helps teams:
Analyst extends RF analysis to full 3D EM simulation.
It is particularly valuable for complex geometries, packaging, connectors, cavities, and multi-technology assemblies.
This helps teams:
VSS enables simulation of complete RF and communication systems at the system level.
Instead of validating individual circuits in isolation, engineering teams can analyze how RF components behave as part of the entire signal chain.
This helps teams:
AWR Design Environment is built as a unified RF workflow—not as a collection of separate simulation tools.
Circuit design, layout, planar EM, 3D EM, and system simulation work together within the same environment, allowing engineering teams to move naturally between different design and analysis stages.
This helps teams:
Especially valuable in complex RF projects where circuit simulation, EM analysis, and system behavior must work together closely to reduce development time and improve design quality.
Combine Microwave Office®, VSS™, AXIEM®, and Analyst™ into a single RF design platform.
Development teams can move seamlessly between circuit design, EM analysis, and system-level simulation without switching environments or rebuilding models.
In short: AWR provides the platform. Nordcad makes it practical in your day-to-day engineering work.
For our RF engineers to work efficiently across teams, we need strong collaboration, the right tools, and confidence in our design decisions early in the process. With AWR, we can model RF blocks, analyze system designs, and optimize output spectrum performance based on different component choices.
We also use AWR for designing RF matching circuits and filters, where the synthesis capabilities help accelerate development.
All Nordcad customers have access to our local hotline support. Here, you speak directly with a technical specialist who understands your challenges and can help you move forward quickly.
"It ensures fast assistance, eliminating the time-consuming process of seeking help through conventional channels."
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