SANTA CLARA, CA – AWR’s AWR Connected for Mentor Graphics eliminates the need for file translation between the Expedition Enterprise design environment and AWR's Microwave Office microwave and RF design environment. It facilitates the integration of analog, digital, and RF or microwave circuits on the same PCB.
 
"The PCB and RF/microwave design worlds have been merging for some time, but the first-generation design flows built around file translation have proven not to be flows at all", according to Mike Heimlich, Microwave Office Product Marketing Director at AWR. "This solution truly creates a useful flow in which libraries are no longer an issue and co-design is a reality. We are committed to continuing this avenue of cooperation with Mentor Graphics as it delivers real benefits to the design community."

SANTA CLARA– Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced SystemVue 2008, an electronic design automation (EDA) platform for electronic system-level (ESL) design. The platform is reported to reduce physical layer (PHY) design time by half for high-performance communications algorithms and system architectures for not only wireless, but also aerospace/defense applications. SystemVue offers an easy-to-use environment with links to hardware implementation and tests, as well as complements existing EDA tools used in FPGAs, DSPs and ASICs and Analog/RF components.