Traditional RF and microwave prototyping take weeks to months. MicroWave Cells introduces a completely new and innovative concept to build your desired functions, sub-systems, and systems in just hours and days with a fraction of the traditional prototyping cost. Less cost, better efficiencies. RF and Microwave circuit designs have always been a detailed and tedious process, including many cycles of schematics, layout, PCB fabrication, board mechanics, assembly, and testing. MicroWaveCells offers a fast new RF and Microwave circuit design and prototyping concept (patented) by offering many standard single function PCB cells with MicroWaveCells' unique mechanical cells for use as a single function design or a multi-function sub-system or system design. This rapid and dynamic prototyping concept saves a tremendous amount of time and money compared to the traditional RF/Microwave prototyping cycles.
Single Cells
MicroWaveCells initially offers a total of 132 single PCB cells, which support more than 100 different device footprints and 11 basic mechanical cell parts. PCB cells cover more than thousands of the most commonly used off-the-shelf RF/Microwave devices from most of the key RF/Microwave device vendors. Customers can use these cells to build and test each cell function with corresponding single cell mechanics. Each cell has a standard cell dimension with 20x20mm2. Some cells/functions have more than one single cell dimension, such as the synthesizer cell with a 2x3 cell size and VCO with a 1x2 cell size. The single cell supports most of the key RF functions with common footprints. The cell frequency range covers from DC to 40GHz.
MicroWaveCells also introduces a dynamic, single module concept (patented) based on the standard single cell product line. The single mechanical cell is designed to be connected by sidewalls with covers of the customer's choice. By selecting required sidewalls and covers online, customers can easily make their own modules in minutes.
Dynamic Cells
Unlimited possibilities! This single cell can be extended to any dimension and any shape by using the single cell base and single base joint. The half cell base can be added for the side input or output launch.
The following example shows how a block diagram selects cell PCB and corresponding cell mechanics to build your desired system in days. For bias and control convenience, MicroWaveCells also offers a 1x5 DC management cell. The output microwave filter is a customized 1x2 cell size filter.
Array Cells
For the customer's easy integration and low cost consideration, MicroWaveCells also offers a 5x5 array mechanical cell; with the array joint cell, customers can build a very large system in a very short amount of time.
Xpedion GoldenGate includes advanced RF and microwave simulators- RFlinear, RF non-linear harmonic balance with Krylov sub-space and envelope transient withnon-linear phase noise. Seamlessly integrated into widely used Affirma Analog Artist EDA environment, GoldenGate is complementary to Spectre RF and significantlyreduces design-cycles and design-time for wireless integrated circuits and products.
Today's wireless design teams require accurate and fast RF, microwaveand transient simulators to handle large and complex RFdesigns. There are stringent specifications for non-linearity, distortion, gain compression, harmonics, efficiency, phase noise and spurious mixing products. Circuits operate in highly non-linear and deep saturation regimes with digital modulated input signals. Also, RFintegrated circuits are tightly integrated with low frequency analog, DSPand digital designs. This requires the RFdesign environment to be tightly integrated with main stream EDA tools, to reduce the number of design iterations and design-cycle time. Xpedion GoldenGate is designed to meet the needs of wireless integrated circuit designers working in both defense and commercial wireless communications. It offers a set of the most sophisticated RF, microwave and envelope transient simulators combined with a unified set of accurate model libraries, complementary to Spectre RF. Simulators are optimized to handle today's 2G and 2.5G, evolving 3G,Bluetooth RF integrated circuits and complex modulation schemes. Users can perform multiple analyses, such as DC,multi-tone RF, and phase noise, all on a single schematic, while using various modulation sources.
Versatile analog, mixed signal and
RF/Microwave design environment
• Virtuoso Composer for entering hierarchical RF/Microwave and analog/mixed designs using GoldenGate and analog symbollibrary elements
• Fully customizable user interface with SKILL programming language
• Interactive GoldenGate circuit simulation allows quick design entry,change, analysis, display and manipulation of simulation results
• Schematic debug capabilities by cross referencing nodes, nets, and elements
• Industry standard EDIF interface
Devices and Libraries
• Ideal, linear, non-linear and lumped elements, extensive models for BJT,GaAsFET, MOSFET, JFET, diode
• Extensive, and accurate models for microstrip, stripline, coupled, coplanar,suspended and finline structures
• QAM, QPSK, pulse, Chirp, and user-defined modulation sources
Simulators / Analyses
• Three independent tones, unlimited number of harmonics
• Oscillator, amplifier powerup transient analysis, I/V vs time waveforms
• VCO, free running and locked oscillator, analog PLL, phase noise
• DC, linear, non-linear Nyquist stability analysis, K factor, oscillator frequency
• DC I-V curves, load lines
• Yield and Monte Carlo analysis
• Eight choices of optimizers
• EM simulator interface using s-parameter files
Results Display
• GoldenGate uses Analog Artist's versatile results display tool
• Waveform calculator for extensive RF/Microwave results post-processing
• Smith chart, gain, noise figure circles,linear and log plot, load pull curves
• Nyquist stability circles
• Single and multiple Y-axes, line markers, pan and zoom, overlay plots from different simulations.
Other Related Products
• GoldenGate/Neural Net ModelCompiler generates accurate C-models for RF , microwave linear and non-linear circuits and discrete active and passive devices
• GoldenGate is interfaced with several system level simulators, including SystemView, SPW, and COSSAP
• GoldenGate is available on Windows 95, 98, NT, integrated with Orcad
• Import Spice models, mathematical sources and Spice circuit netlists.
