Applied Wave Research’s RFA is a system-level architectural planning tool, which provides an advanced RF budget analysis feature and “frequency heritage inspection” capabilities for next-generation communication design. This new entry-level product is the latest addition to the company’s Visual System Simulator (VSS) design suite.

One key component of RFA is the RF Budget Analysis feature that provides the ability to make traditional RF cascaded measurements such as gain, noise figure, and third-order intercept, inclusive of image noise, along a communication link. The RF Inspector technology, another component of RFA, is a new frequency-domain simulation tool that helps determine the root cause or heritage of any intermodulation product of an RF link and includes the effects of conversions, harmonics, intermodulation, and noise. This enables users to isolate the sources of unwanted interferers and to better architect their RF systems.

RFA, complemented with the power of VSS, enables engineering teams to further analyze and simulate their designs and incorporate complex modulation sources and receivers with the same RF link created in RFA, and, at the same time, use the full suite of capabilities offered in VSS, including error vector magnitude (EVM), eye diagrams and bit error rate (BER).

The RFA product will be available directly from AWR starting at $4000 per year depending on configuration. A beta version of the RFA software will be available in the third quarter of 2006, and the full production release is scheduled for the first quarter of 2007.

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