AWR Online Training
AWR is offering a free online training program to help engineers become more proficient with AWR’s high-frequency design tools. The training is module-based for manageable time commitment, and each video presentation consists of three 90-minute webinars (60 minutes of content and 30 minutes of Q&A). The schedule is flexible, with modules offered over several weeks. Developers can view live lectures via telephone and web browser, or replay them at a more convenient time. Each lecture comes with a 90-minute take-home exercise designed to enhance understanding of the material.
The training modules currently available are:
Setting up EM in Microwave Office
Covers the essential concepts needed to get an EM simulation working in the Microwave Office environment
- Drawing and EM Layers
- Understanding the Enclosure Settings
- Mesh Settings – reasonable mesh guidelines
- Controlling frequency and AFS
- Importing artwork to EM
- Extraction
AXIEM Concepts
AXIEM users need to understand three important concepts to use the full power of the simulator: ports, meshing, and solver settings
- How ports work: implicit/explicit, deembedding settings, other port options (version 9)
- Meshing: The grid and decimation, controlling the mesh, reasonable mesh options
- Solvers: Direct vs. Iterative solvers, how an iterative solver works, preconditioners
Advanced EM Concepts for Planar Simulators
Designed to give the user a deeper understanding of planar simulators
- Deembedding: How it really works. Limitations and caveats (Version 9 features)
- Metal Loss: Approximations and limitations
- S Parameters and grounding issues: series ports, internal ground planes
- Coplanar and Stripline simulations
Introduction to Microwave Office
Introduces the user to the software’s UI, schematic and layout interaction, and shows how to make a graph and measurement
- A Tour of the user interface: Menus, browsers, hotkeys
- Linear Simulation: A simple Tee example. Graphing and mesurements
- Frequency Control: Global and local control of frequency
- Tuning and Swept Variables: How they work in graphs
- Schematic and Layout interaction: Ratlines, snapping together
- Exporting the layout
Controlling Layout
This module shows how layout is setup and controlled
- Units, database size, and grid size
- Controlling Drawing Layers
- Model layers when importing and exporting artwork cells
- Schematic layout: snap together options, face options
- Inserting artwork cells into schematic layout
- Exporting layout: mappings and options
- Associating fixed artwork cells with schematic elements
- Introduction to the LPF file and linetypes
Using Harmonic Balance
Covers basic setup of harmonic balance: ports, tones and harmonics, and circuit topologies
- What is harmonic balance?
- How ports are controlled
- Controlling harmonics
- Common measurements: total power, power in a harmonic, large signal S parameters, spectral measurements
- Typical Topologies: power amplifier, mixer, IP3, HotS22
More info: AWR Online Training
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