Applied Wave Research (AWR) has announced that the company’s Analog Office design suite, a software product developed specifically for analog and RFIC design, has recently been used by a major Japanese electronics manufacturer to successfully design a 5.8-GHz RFIC in an advanced silicon germanium (SiGe) bipolar complementary metal oxide semiconductor (BiCMOS) process from Jazz Semiconductor.

The RF receiver is a complete silicon-based RFIC, successfully designed and taped out using the entire Analog Office design flow from schematic capture, through simulation, analysis, layout, extraction and complete design rule check (DRC), and layout vs. schematic (LVS) verification. The design commenced in May 2005 and was taped out to Jazz Semiconductor’s Newport Beach wafer foundry in August 2005. The resulting silicon, delivered and tested in October 2005, is fully functional and meets the customer’s specifications.

The Analog Office solution is a complete IC design system that is specifically architected and optimized from the ground up for analog and RFIC designs. The toolset spans the entire IC design flow, from system-level to circuit-level design and verification, for complete top-to-bottom and front-to-back analog and RFIC design.