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GaN Electrothermal Modeling for 5G MMIC Power Amplifier Designs This webinar, co-presented with UMS, details the characterization of a short gate-length (0.15 μm), gallium nitride (GaN) on silicon carbide (SiC) process for millimeter-wave (mmWave) applications up to 40 GHz. |
Webinar | March 7, 2019 |
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Filter Design This playlist features videos by NI AWR software experts, customers, and partners illustrating various filter design solutions. |
Video | February 21, 2019 |
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PA (MMIC) Design This playlist features videos by NI AWR software experts, customers, and partners illustrating various PA (MMIC) design flows. |
Video | February 21, 2019 |
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Customer/Partner Spotlight This playlist features videos by customers and partners, including AWR Connected™ partners, that demonstrate third-party flows highlighting NI AWR software. |
Video | February 21, 2019 |
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AWR Connected This playlist features videos of AWR Connected™ solutions, which integrate the NI AWR Design Environment platform with third-party software tools and hardware manufacturers to provide a more powerful and complete design platform. |
Video | February 21, 2019 |
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Software Solutions for RF Module Development This white paper explores the fundamental design challenges faced when creating and producing high-frequency modules for a range of wireless system applications. |
White Paper | February 14, 2019 |
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Antenna Array Design for ADAS This blog discusses several challenges behind developing mmWave radar systems for advanced driver-assist systems (ADAS) in the next generation of smart cars and trucks and looks at new capabilities recently added to EDA software that support a design flow for developing high-performance arrays that are also cost and space conscious. |
Technical Article | February 14, 2019 |
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Network Synthesis Wizard Automates Interactive Matching-Circuit Design This application note highlights the network synthesis module within the NI AWR Design Environment platform, which automates the development of impedance-matching circuits. |
Application Note | February 13, 2019 |
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Complete Filter Design With Discrete Elements Made Easy Features like internal part libraries and accurate models can greatly benefit anyone tasked with designing filters with discrete elements. This industry article includes information about filter solutions from NI AWR software and partners Nuhertz, CST Studio, and Modelithics. |
Technical Article | February 12, 2019 |
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Women in Engineering: Thoughts from EDI CON USA |
Technical Article | February 8, 2019 |
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Mercury Systems Industry Insights Video Series: Mercury Systems |
Customer Story | February 8, 2019 |
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The Load-Modulated Balanced Amplifier This webinar highlights the counter-intuitive property in quadrature-balanced amplifiers that allows active load modulation of the output match presented to the balanced transistors. |
Webinar | January 30, 2019 |
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Thoughts on CLASTECH 2018 WIE Networking As an advocate for women in engineering (WIE), I often write of the importance to mentor and network. I’ve especially advised that a good place to start is to get involved with the IEEE and its subsection, Women in Microwaves (WIM). |
Blog Article | January 29, 2019 |
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Design and Physical Realization of Phased-Array Antennas for MIMO and Beam-Steering Applications This white paper explores basic phased-array theory and the design considerations behind next-generation antenna systems. |
White Paper | January 21, 2019 |
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Employ Design-Flow Integration for Advanced Multichip RF Design This article presents a modern design flow that translates the Cadence PDK into the NI AWR Design Environment platform to support chip-package co-design and EM verification. |
Technical Article | January 18, 2019 |
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EM Verification of Complex Board Structures Streamlined With PCB Import Wizard This application note highlights the capabilities in the NI AWR software PCB import wizard that enable designers to streamline EM verification. |
Application Note | January 10, 2019 |
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View From the Top Sherry Hess, VP of Marketing for AWR Group, NI, shares her thoughts on the 2019 outlook for the RF/microwave industry and AWR business in the defense industry and 5G. |
Technical Article | January 8, 2019 |
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Xidian University of Electronic Science and Technology Conducts Microwave Circuit Design Contest Featuring NI AWR Software (Chinese) NI and Xidian University of Electronic Science and Technology jointly held a Xi’an University RF/Microwave Circuit Design Competition in November 2018 and over 116 teams with 2-3 students each participated. Student comments regarding their experience reflect that they are more confident in their mastery of NI AWR software and will be more familiar with the design process in the future. |
Technical Article | January 8, 2019 |
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Concept to Product for a 3D Mesh Antenna This application note presents a unique antenna design based on synthesis and simulation technologies in NI AWR software. |
Application Note | December 20, 2018 |
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NI AWR Software: V14 Launch Full of Innovations (Hebrew) This article presents an interview with AWR Group, NI’s Antti Lautanen, marketing manager, and Benny Haddad, application engineer, discussing the new features in V14 of NI AWR software that were introduced at the Tel Aviv conference. |
Technical Article | December 13, 2018 |
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Phased-Array Design Flow for MIMO and Beam-Steering Applications This webinar will discuss phased-array antennas, well-known for their use in radar and aerospace systems, are now seeing greater use in commercial applications. |
Webinar | December 12, 2018 |
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Saratov State University Professor and Student Design UHF Antenna Amplifier |
Customer Story | December 7, 2018 |
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Design of a High-Efficiency Broadband GaN HEMT Doherty Amplifier for New-Generation Cellular Transmitters This application note describes the design of an innovative Doherty amplifier architecture using GHz GaN HEMT technology, which significantly reduced the cost, size, and power consumption of the transmitters. |
Application Note | December 5, 2018 |
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Meteksan Defence Matching Network for GaN HEMT Power Amplifier |
Customer Story | December 3, 2018 |
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AWR Design Forum – Creating an Ecosystem Beyond Software This blog from customer Premix highlights the innovative features of the AWR Design Forum and includes an interview with Antti Lautanen, senior marketing manager at AWR Group, NI discussing his vision for the future of ADF. |
Technical Article | November 29, 2018 |
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WIE: Changing Skill Set I recently participated in a panel at EDI CON USA, where we discussed “Skills Employers Will Want in 2020,” that employers are not only looking at the core skills necessary as an engineer but also communications skills – the ability to communicate your ideas with others and to get along as a team. In this blog I’m sharing a few of the discussion points that resonated well with me. |
Blog Article | November 29, 2018 |
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RFIC PA Development for Communication and Radar Systems: Basic Operations and Metrics This white paper examines some of the challenges in designing RFIC-based PAs for future 5G communication systems. |
White Paper | November 28, 2018 |
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Network Synthesis Automates Interactive Matching-Circuit Design Reducing product development time requires design tools that support and expedite all stages of development, from translating performance requirements into an initial design through to optimization, physical realization, and final verification. |
Webinar | November 28, 2018 |
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Sumitomo Electric Industries Sumitomo Electric Designs Compact GaN HEMT Doherty Amplifier Using NI AWR Software |
Customer Story | November 26, 2018 |
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RF Electronics - Design and Simulation RF Electronics - Design and Simulation, authored by Professor Keith Kikkert of James Cook University in Australia, is a comprehensive RF design course, including lecture notes and lab examples, intended for final year undergraduate or masters students. The materials cover RF simulation, transformers, transmission lines, mixers, oscillators, filters, and amplifiers. |
eBook | November 21, 2018 |
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Network Synthesis Wizard Automates Interactive Matching-Circuit Design This article examines new EDA software technology in the domain of network synthesis for the development of impedance-matching circuits. |
Technical Article | November 16, 2018 |
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Design Software Accelerates Antenna Array Development for Automotive Radar Applications This article examines several challenges behind developing millimeter-wave radar systems for the next generation of smart cars and trucks. |
Technical Article | November 14, 2018 |
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Basics of Design: Filter Technologies for 5G Wireless Communication Systems This white paper, originally published by Microwaves & RF, a Penton publication, discusses the use of simulation software such as the NI AWR Design Environment platform to help filter designers overcome the challenges posed by 5G wireless networks due to an increase in potential interferers from the adoption of Massive MIMO and network cell densification. |
White Paper | November 9, 2018 |
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Qorvo awarded US Air Force Contract to Accelerate GaN Design, Performance and Reliability |
Technical Article | November 7, 2018 |
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Complete X-Band 2x2 Phased-Array Antenna Design and Simulation This webinar will discuss the design flow of a 2x2 phased-array antenna with a T/R module operating in the 8-12 GHz frequency range using the unique phased array modeling capabilities available within the NI AWR Design Environment platform. |
Webinar | November 7, 2018 |
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Basics of Design: Raising the Levels of 5G Millimeter-Wave Signals Designing a millimeter-wave PA presents challenges from the extreme miniaturization of millimeter-wave circuits and the need to conserve signal power as much as possible by minimizing forward and reflected signal losses. |
White Paper | November 7, 2018 |
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PCB Import Wizard in NI AWR Software Accelerates EM Verification of Complex Board Structures This article walks through an example that highlights the capabilities of the new PCB import wizard that accelerate EM verification of PCBs. |
Technical Article | October 31, 2018 |
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WIE: Supporting and Championing Others This blog series is based on research and writing I did for the NIWeek 2018 Women’s Leadership Forum panel, which I am sharing in hopes of encouraging dialog and action to further diversity in engineering. |
Blog Article | October 30, 2018 |
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Moscow Technical University of Communication and Informatics (MTUCI) MTUCI Students Design Microwave Filters Using NI AWR Software |
Customer Story | October 29, 2018 |
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Design of a BAW Quadplexer Module Using NI AWR Software This application note describes the design of a carrier aggregation (CA) bulk acoustic wave (BAW) quadplexer module for the LTE-3 and LTE-7 bands, with high in-band and cross-band isolation. |
Application Note | October 26, 2018 |
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Phased-Array Antenna Design Tools for MIMO/Beam-Steering Applications The advantages inherent in phased-array systems will enable major new commercial applications, including 5G communications and automotive radar, enabling them to exploit the millimeter-wave (mmWave) spectrum. This article explores design considerations behind next-generation antenna systems as well as capabilities added to NI AWR software that support a design flow for developing these products. |
Technical Article | October 24, 2018 |
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The Load-Modulated Balanced Amplifier Quadrature-balanced amplifiers hold a revered position in the historical development of broadband microwave amplifiers up to 20 GHz and beyond because they replaced unreliable traveling wave tubes (TWTs) with solid-state equivalents. |
Webinar | October 23, 2018 |