Applied Wave Research (AWR) and Pulsic have announced that Pulsic’s Lyric Automatic Routing system is now integrated into AWR’s Analog Office 2006 design suite for analog and RFIC design. Through the Analog Office OpenAccess open standard data access interface (API), interconnects represented by Analog Office Intelligent Net2 (iNet2) technology can now be automatically routed in Pulsic’s Lyric Automatic Routing system.

The new solution enables high-frequency analog, RF and mixed-signal designers to access the Pulsic routing system without leaving the Analog Office design environment.

“The collaboration between AWR and Pulsic provides IC designers with a new level of automation and flexibility in choosing the best tool for a particular design job,” said James Spoto, president and CEO of AWR. “We are pleased to be working with Pulsic in order to provide our customers with access to world class automatic routing technology directly from AWR’s easy-to-use, open design environment, and unified data model.”

The AWR/Pulsic interface enables designers to exchange physical data dynamically and seamlessly between Analog Office and the Pulsic router via Si2’s OpenAccess database. Analog and RF intellectual property blocks can now be designed, analyzed, and then routed quickly and correctly within the Analog Office software, and there is no need for separate netlist generation and physical data translation steps because the designer never leaves the Analog Office platform. The Analog Office iNet2 data structure is maintained through the interface, ensuring concurrent electrical and physical design and analysis within AWR’s single, unified design environment.

An early evaluation version of the Analog Office and Lyric router interface will be available directly from AWR in the third quarter of 2006.

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