PCB design tool

AWR and Mentor Graphics have announced AWR Connected for Mentor Graphics.

This new synergy of design flow between AWR and Mentor makes obsolete file translation between Mentor's Expedition Enterprise design environment and AWR's Microwave Office microwave and RF design environment.

The resulting design and simulation solution is easy to learn and use and its operation is fully transparent to the user.

"The PCB and RF/microwave design worlds have been merging for some time, but the first-generation design flows built around file translation have proved not to be flows at all," according to Mike Heimlich, Microwave Office Product Marketing Director at AWR. "This solution truly creates a useful flow in which libraries are no longer an issue and co-design is a reality. We are committed to continuing this avenue of cooperation with Mentor Graphics as it delivers real benefits to the design community."

PCB designers are increasingly being asked to create products that integrate analog, digital, and RF or microwave circuits on the same PCB. Until now, translating files between PCB and high-frequency EDA tools has consumed many minutes if not hours and impeded designers' ability to rapidly create mixed-technology products.

AWR Connected for Mentor's Expedition eliminates file translation and reduces the time to move from one tool/environment to another to nearly zero.

Rohde & Schwarz represents AWR in Australia.