Altium Designer 15.1
Altium Ltd. announced the next update to its flagship PCB design tool, Altium Designer. Altium Designer 15.1 introduces several new features for improved design productivity, documentation outputs and high-speed design efficiency including: improved support for xSignals, expanded rigid-flex support, new output documentation options and new design re-use tools. Now is a great time for designers to make the switch to Altium Designer. Visit the company’s website to start your free trial today.
Altium Ltd.
www.altium.com
Mobile Device App
AR RF/Microwave Instrumentation’s mobile app is now available as a free download from Apple iTunes and Google Play. This application is a quick and easy tool to access a variety of content from AR. The home screen icons allow easy navigation to view basic and full product descriptions, app notes, AR’s literature library, YouTube videos, contact information and social media activity – all from your mobile device. To download the app, visit www.arww-rfmicro.com/html/ar-moblie-app.asp.
AR RF/Microwave Instrumentation
www.arworld.us
Spectre RF Simulator 14.1
Building a multi-band wireless chip? Worried about LO leakage from one transceiver to another? Cadence’s newest release of Spectre RF Simulator enables the harmonic balance analysis of multiple transceivers each with a different frequency divider. The new 14.1 version also adds LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac and 802.11af to the rich set of supported wireless standards. The tight integration of Spectre RF Simulator into the Virtuoso Analog Design Environment provides you with a cockpit to easily drive multi-test simulation and post-process the results, enabling robust verification.
Cadence Design System Inc.
www.cadence.com/products/rf
Velox 2.0
Cascade Microtech announced Velox 2.0, their latest version of probe station control software. Combining the ease of Nucleus™ with the power of ProberBench™, Velox 2.0 delivers new levels of test and measurement efficiency to accelerate time to job completion. This latest release supports collaboration on critical projects, enabling several users to work on a single recipe and share wafer maps across multiple stations. A unified platform accelerates the time to data for process design kits, saving time for the designers and fab engineers. Wafer handling, alignment, temperature control, Z-profiling and stepping perform as a single automated test flow using the VeloxPro™ test automation software option.
Cascade Microtech Inc.
www.cascademicrotech.com
UCAMCO Integr8tor
Cirexx International acquired and installed the UCAMCO Integr8tor pre-CAM software. With the Integr8tor tool, Cirexx is able to process more quotes, more quickly, and with a greater degree of confidence in having identified all of the challenging attributes of printed circuit fabrication build. The software delivers a “cleaner” CAM-ready package that merges directly into the CAM platform for tooling and planning once the order is placed. A simple and intuitive user interface makes the system easy to learn and accessible for CAM engineers.
Cirexx International Inc.
www.cirexx.com
RF Tools in Your Pocket
The iPhone app ‘RF Tools’ has been enhanced with the assembly calculator. More than 270 cables and assemblies from HUBER+SUHNER can be easily calculated on the iPhone – anytime and anywhere. This useful app provides an easy comparison of up to three HUBER+SUHNER radio frequency cables and assemblies in different configurations and environments. It offers straight access to technical specifications such as insertion loss and power rating. The app is available for free in English and Chinese in the App Store at https://itunes.apple.com/app/id525678686.
HUBER+SUHNER AG
www.hubersuhner.com
SW Selector Mobile App
Keysight Technologies offers over 230 test and measurement software applications based on innovative algorithms and up-to-date standards for use with bit error rate testers, oscilloscopes, signal generators, signal analyzers, vector network analyzers and more. The new Keysight SW Selector Mobile App provides a quick and easy way to search by application, technology or measurement platform to find the right stand-alone or embedded test and measurement software for a specific application. The app can be downloaded for iOS or Android at www.keysight.com/find/swselector.
Keysight Technologies Inc.
www.keysight.com
Microwave Calculator Mobile App
Mini-Circuits’ new Microwave Calculator app for Android mobile devices gives engineers a quick and easy tool to perform three common calculations on the fly: the effect of VSWR/return loss on transmitted power, cascaded noise figure and power to voltage conversion. It also provides the formulas for each of these computations as a convenient reference. It is the perfect tool to simplify and expedite problem-solving whether you’re working in the lab or in the field. The app is available for FREE download from the company’s website and on Google Play™.
Mini-Circuits
www.minicircuits.com
COMPLETE Library v12.1 for NI AWR
Modelithics released the latest version (v12.1) of the Modelithics® COMPLETE Library™ for NI AWR Design Environment software. The new release includes over 50 new high accuracy simulation models, representing over 1,500 individual devices. New models have been added for components from AVX, Cobham Aeroflex, Würth Elektronik, ATC, Passive Plus, Piconics, Skyworks, Freescale, Qorvo, CoilCraft, Murata, Darfon, Taiyo Yuden, TDK and IPDiA. The Modelithics COMPLETE Library now represents over 50 vendors and over 11,000 RF and microwave devices. Visit www.modelithics.com for details.
Modelithics Inc.
www.modelithics.com
V12 NI AWR Design Environment
V12 NI AWR Design Environment™ software, the first major release in 2015, includes new amplifier, antenna and radar-specific features as well as ease-of-use improvements, speed enhancements and third-party flows that benefit designers of MMICs, RF PCBs, modules and more. V12 NI AWR Design Environment software consists of Microwave Office/Analog Office circuit design software, Visual System Simulator™ (VSS) system design software, AXIEM planar EM simulator and Analyst™ 3D EM simulator. Learn more at awrcorp.com/v12.
National Instruments
www.ni.com/awr
Asymmetrical Band Pass Filter Design
Nuhertz announces improved capability in FilterSolutions®, synthesis software. The program now instantly and accurately automates design of asymmetric band pass filters which do not require symmetric attenuation response on each side of the pass band. Rather than utilizing optimization or manual pole-zero tuning, FilterSolutions provides an accurate, automated method for setting asymmetric design parameters. The only data needed are the independent attenuation goals and the number of poles for each side of the pass band. FilterSolutions instantly provides the exact solution.
Nuhertz Technologies LLC
www.nuhertz.com
Filter RFQ Mobile App
Submitting RFQ’s for filters, multiplexers and multifunction assemblies has never been easier or more convenient with Reactel’s new mobile app for Apple and Android devices. Filter RFQ is available now for Apple and Android devices. In addition to the RFQ element, this full featured app also contains the company’s complete catalog and a growing number of data- sheets. Download your copy from iTunes or GooglePlay today.
Reactel Inc.
www.reactel.com
VSim 7.2
Tech-X Corp. delivers high quality, cutting edge software that reduces your time from simulation to manufacture. VSim is an electromagnetic time-domain three-dimensional solver with particle and plasma simulation capabilities. The latest release, VSim 7.2, includes electromagnetic and particle modeling features for magnetrons, klystrons, gyrotrons, traveling-wave-tubes and similar devices, as well as antenna design, photonics and semiconductors. Visit https://www.txcorp.com/vsim for more information.
Tech-X Corp.
www.txcorp.com
RF Cable Builder
SV Microwave released their Rapid Response RF Cable Assemblies that are built-to-order and ready to ship within 5 business days. These cables can be custom configured and purchased on the company’s website using their new interactive RF cable builder application. Customers can choose from a variety of in-stock standard connector series and cable types for miniature and low loss coaxial assemblies. The RF Cable Builder will generate a custom datasheet complete with part number, data drawing, technical specifications and pricing. Go to www.svmicrowave.com/products/rf_cable_builder.
SV Microwave
www.svmicrowave.com
Online Simulator
X-Microwave introduced its Online Nonlinear System Simulator powered by Keysight’s Genesys Spectrasys. Simulate with hundreds of models of real system components using the intuitive user interface. X-parameter or S-parameter models are extracted from X-Microwave’s drop-in components (X-MWblocks) using Keysight’s PNA-X analyzer. An X-parameter model of an amplifier serves as a live datasheet to determine the P1dB or IP3 at a given operating point of interest. Quickly cascade microwave components and simulate to view the spectral content at any node of the block diagram.
X-Microwave LLC
www.xmicrowave.com