Applied Wave Research Inc. has announced a corporate agreement with Ashvattha Semiconductor, Inc. to purchase AWR's Analog Office design suite. Ashvattha will use the software for the design of its RFICs, which, through innovative architectures, integrate multiple standards on a single chip.

Ashvattha Semiconductor has integrated multiple RF front-ends on a single chip, enabling the creation of multimode, multifunction devices.

“Using Analog Office design software, we are able to analyze our advanced RF front-end circuits in greater detail than ever before, and in the same environment, we are able to see the system ramifications of a circuit-level change,” said Kartik Sridharan, vice president of engineering at Ashvattha. “This is extremely powerful in RF system design. Analog Office's set of integrated simulation technologies, comprehensive suite of RF measurements, accurate simulation models, and available RF-complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) foundry process design kit enables us to achieve our design objectives in the shortest time.”

Analog Office design suite is a complete IC design system that is specifically designed and optimized from the ground-up for next-generation analog and RFIC designs. The solution, which is focused on total RF closure, offers concurrent interconnect-driven and RF-aware design methodology in a unified design environment that delivers ease-of-use, interactivity and openness. The toolset spans the entire IC design flow, from system-level to circuit-level design and verification, for top-to-bottom and front-to-back analog and RFIC design.

The 2004 version has been enhanced to provide bidirectional interfaces to popular industry circuit simulators, electromagnetic simulators, and IC physical verification toolsets. For more information, visit www.mwoffice.com.