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Circuit simulators listed here apply primarily to those used for analog, RF, and microwave circuits. Designing high frequency circuits for first-pass success requires a very high level of sophistication by the software. It must contain component models (including substrates and enclosures) that accurately compute values that take into account the many parasitic effects of lead inductance, interwinding capacitance, resistance of the component, etc. Generally, price correlates directly to the capability of the software.
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Guided Wave Technology
Denmark |
| Guided Wave Technology's Coupling Matrix Synthesis (CMS) tool facilitates synthesis of N+2 coupling matrices
for Chebyshev bandpass filtering functions, with arbitrary finite-position transmission zeroes. |
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The CMS tool gives
a fast and accurate
overview of: |
● Filter orders up to 12
● Arbitrary placement of transmission zeroes
● Complex transmission zeroes
● Extended parameter plotting options
● S-parameter
file (s2p) generation
● Topology matrix definition of filter circuits
● Advanced
graph and marker functions
● Easily re-scalable axes
● Excellent overview - input/output
together
● Saving and loading of designs
● Fast response
● Integrated
manual
● Intuitive and very user friendly interface |
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| Guided Wave Technology
is a microwave filter R&D company, specialized in development and production of
passive filter prototypes and series. |
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 Applied
Computational
Sciences
Escondido, CA
760-612-6988 |
ACS designs, develops and sells Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software tools for RF and microwave engineering
applications. ACS's main product is the
LINC2 linear
circuit simulator and RF Tools products. LINC2 runs on versions of MS Windows for the PC and compatibles.
LINC2TM
- Standard & Pro, are linear circuit simulators that include a suite of design and synthesis tools
seamlessly integrated into one program for the ultimate experience in the automated design of RF and microwave circuits.
LINC2 Pro Features:
• Circuit Synthesis
• Accurate Simulation
• Optimization •
Statistical Yield Analysis
• Large Component Library - More than
30,000 Device Files
NEW! -- Visual System Architect --:
• RF
System-Level Simulation
• Gain, NF, IP2/3, P1dB, etc. • Table or Graph
LINC2 in Industry - Used by top tier
companies!
** All products include FREE technical support!** |
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AC Microwave, GmbH (now CST Computer Simulation Technology)
508-665-4400 | Framingham, MA
CST STUDIO SUITE™ - comprises CST’s full 3D electromagnetic simulation as well as other tools, dedicated to specific problems such as cable harness or EM/circuit co-simulation. Antenna Magus – the first antenna design tool of its kind – has a huge database of antennas that can be explored to find, design and export models of designed antennas to CST MICROWAVE STUDIO®.cst.com
Agilent Technologies
800-452-4844 | Santa Clara, CA
Test equipment, racks, cables, adapters, amplifiers, cables, RF switches, EEsof EDA products.
ALK Engineering
410-546-5573 | Salisbury, MD
These filter design programs claim to be the most powerful available, and are written by a team of industry experts. S/FILSYN for Windows. PCFilt for DOS.
Almost All Digital Electronics (AADE)
AADE Filter Design software. This program is utterly amazing and is absolutely FREE. Design Butterworth, Chebyshev, Elliptic (Cauer), Bessel, Legendre and Linear Phase low-pass, high-pass, band-Pass, and band-reject filters. Coupled Resonator band-pass filters Crystal Ladder band-pass filters using identical crystals. Ideal for Amateur construction from surplus or microprocessor crystals. ANALYSIS frequency domain, Power Effective Gain, Power Insertion Gain, Voltage Effective Gain, Voltage Insertion Gain, Current Effective Gain, Current Insertion Gain, Input Impedance, Output Impedance, Group Delay, Phase Return Loss. Monte Carlo analysis.
Analog Devices
800-262-5643 | Norwood, MA
Op amps, switches, A/D, D/A, S&H, AD8347 direct conversion RFIC (800 MHz to 2.7 GHz), ADIsimPLL synthesizer circuit simulation software.
AnaSoft Ltd
+44 07764 449471 | UK
SuperSpice has been designed from the ground up to meet the requirements of professional analog design engineers for both integrated circuit and board level applications at an unparalleled level of affordability. Edit schematic -> simulate-> view waveforms cycle of any Spice simulator.
Ansoft
412-261-3200 | Pittsburgh, PA
Ansoft Designer is the seamless solution for physics-based RF, high-speed, & communication design. By linking physical attributes to electrical performance, Ansoft Designer makes it possible to get it right the first time. With Ansoft’s Solver on Demand™ technology & seamless integration, the software eliminates design risk & uncertainty by providing engineers with the information necessary to make correct decisions during all stages of the design process. Student/Demo version available.
APLAC Corporation (now AWR)
+358 9 540 450 00 | Espoo, Finland
APLAC Solutions was acquired by Applied Wave Research. AWR-APLAC is the developer of APLAC analog and RFIC circuit simulator. APLAC simulator is now integrated into AWR's Analog and Microwave office design tools.
Applied Wave Research (AWR)
310-726-3000 | El Segundo, CA
High-frequency EDA products for the design of wireless telecom equipment, semiconductors, high-speed computers, networking systems, automotive mobility systems, & a variety of other products. Microwave Office, Analog Office, Visual System Simulator, APLAC, Axiem.
Applied Radio Labs
+61 2 4252 8959 | Australia
SimPLL - User friendly PLL Design & Simulation Software.
ARK RF Systems
+44(0)1983 400340 | UK
SPsim: Analogue, RF and Microwave simulator designed to be intuitive. A slick user interface which has no legacy code and operates using standard windows controls and keystrokes allowing circuits and simulations to be entered and set up in seconds. Compatible with Sonnet for EM simulation. SPview2: Visual S-Parameter extraction and analysis w/support for VNAs, spectrum and scalar analysers. AutolabNF: NF measurement via many supported spectrum analysers. Features a real time measurement mode. Autolab: Automated Laboratory Measurements. Includes NF, P1dB, IMD, ACPR, harmonic distortion. Tests 2 and 3 port devices. Drivers for most spectrum & scalar analysers, signal generators & power meters.
Array Solutions
972-203-2008 | Sunnyvale, TX
Network Designer provides a number of functions for the professional radio operator and the ham radio community, YagiStress mechanical design software for building safe & reliable antennas, antennas, stacking & phasing devices, high power antenna switches, Baluns, impedance transformers, custom antenna arrays & switching systems.
ATG
"Free software for research and teaching." Scientific programs for research, teaching or other potential usage running under MacOSX 10.3 or higher. All distributed under GPL and based on trolltech's Qt C++ framework. Includes the QUCS "Quite Universal Circuit Simulator" - a rare find for the Mac. Also, PPTools, a small but convenient utility for Pulsed Powers featuring solving of RLC circuit, resistors color coding, liquid resistors solver, inductances calculator, skin depth calculator.
Automated Circuit Design (ACD)
Florida
A new software with so much high technology it can be use by millions of engineers and non-engineers to design 100s of electronic circuits One Million times faster than normal including RF design.
AVOCAD
+7 (495) 534-35-42 | Moscow, Russia
Due to unique methods, the circuit simulation module used in CAD system AVOCAD allows designing circuits with dimension raising up to one million transistors and even more.
Beige Bag Software
734-332-0487 | Ann Arbor, MI
Spice A/D - electronic circuit design & circuit simulation software SPICE simulation for Windows & Macintosh. Student/Demo version available.
Cadence Design Systems
800-746-6223 | San Jose, CA
SpectreRF - Virtuoso Spectre® RF Simulation Option for Virtuoso Spectre Circuit Simulator provides fast, accurate simulations for RF & high-frequency ICs, OrCad PCB layout, Linear simulator.
CST Computer Simulation Technology
CST STUDIO SUITE™ - comprises CST’s full 3D electromagnetic simulation as well as other tools, dedicated to specific problems such as cable harness or EM/circuit co-simulation. Antenna Magus – the first antenna design tool of its kind – has a huge database of antennas that can be explored to find, design and export models of designed antennas to CST MICROWAVE STUDIO®. Micro-Stripes is the most powerful electromagnetic simulation software for microwave, antenna design and installed antenna performance. Its 64-bit parallel-executing TLM technology enables you to solve complex electromagnetic problems beyond the scope of other EM analysis tools.
DesignSoft
866-571-6402 | Annapolis, MD (based in Hungary)
TINA Pro - powerful yet affordable software package for designing, simulating, & analyzing analog, digital & mixed electronic circuits. Analysis results can be displayed as sophisticated diagrams or on a range of virtual instruments. Available in many languages, free demo, Edison - photorealistic educational circuit experimentation software.
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Eagleware-Elanix Purchased by Agilent
678-291-0995 | Norcross, GA
GENESYS suites: simulation, synthesis, and instrument interface products, advanced simulation and modeling: SPECTRASYS, HARBEC, EMPOWER/ML, etc, synthesis: advanced T/LINE, A/FILTER, EQUALIZE, FILTER, MATCH, M/FILTER, OSCILLATOR, S/FILTER, SIGNAL CONTROL, instrument interface: TESTLINK, SystemView by Elanix.
Electronics Workbench National Instruments
800-263-5552 | Cheektowaga, NY
Multicap capture program, suitable for pure schematic entry, driving simulation, or feeding PCB layout, Multisim integrated desktop design entry & simulation system, Ultiboard PCB layout, Ultiroute autorouting & autoplacement tool, Commsim used for modeling end-to-end communication systems at the signal or physical level. Student/Demo version available.
EMWonder
Norcross, GA
EMtoSPICE S-parameter to SPICE model converter, generates SPICE macromodels (or subcircuits) using S-parameter data, allowing SPICE simulation of S-parameters in time & frequency domain, unprecedented accuracy over broadband frequencies.
FM Ingenierie
+33 951486698 | France
Programmable attenuators, frequency synthesizers, RF filters, ISM-band ID systems, custom design, Smith Chart software.
Guided Wave Technology
+45 20 88 58 30 | Denmark
Filter and Coupling Matrix Synthesis Software. Get an overview of main filter parameters in seconds, without complex circuit models and modeling. Our Coupling Matrix Synthesis™ software facilitates synthesis of N+2 coupling matrices for Chebyshev bandpass filtering functions, with arbitrary finite-position transmission zeroes. The software also facilitates coupling matrix synthesis through topology matrix definition. It gives a fast and accurate overview of insertion loss, isolation, group delay and coupling coefficients versus filter order, return loss and transmission zero positions. The software allows placement of complex transmission zeroes, which opens up for group delay shaping and analysis.
Helic
408-356-2423 | Los Gatos CA
VeloceRF - EDA tool that enables rapid, whole-chip RF modeling for RFICs & systems-in-package. RF IP - PolyRadio multi-mode silicon transceivers.
HyDesign
01763 26 11 33 | UK
RFSim99 schematic capture, S parameter files, stability circles, auto match, filter designer, attenuator designer and RF Calculator, free.
Interactive Products Corp
919-932-3033 | Cary, NC
IPC focuses on the development of Electromagnetic and Signal Integrity Computer Aided Engineering tools that offer accurate and quick solutions. Our tools solve the field equations by use of the boundary element method. Our user interface is designed for speed allowing you to choose from Stack Up Templates, Pseudo Arbitrary Design, and Completely Arbitrary Design using your CAD tool DXF exports.
Intusoft
310-329-3295 | Gardena CA
ICAP/4 analog & mixed-signal simulation software, IsSpice4 Server - configurable multi-kernel IsSpice4 SPICE simulation, primarily intended for client-server networking applications. Student/Demo version available.
Lorentz Solution, Inc
408-922-0765 | Milpitas, CA
Lorentz Solution is an EDA company delivering the industry's first IC-focused EM Design & Verification solution. The company’s product suite, PeakView™, provides a fully automatic 3D EM Synthesis and flexible EM Design Verification for users of the Cadence™ custom IC design and circuit simulation environments.
Manfred Kanther
Matching Network Designer for Excel
This very fine Excel spreadsheet available for download by RF Cafe visitors. It is written in the Excel 2000 environment, so any version from 2000 up through Excel 2007 will support it. Click the screen image to the right to download the ZIP file. If you did not know better, you would believe that this is actually a stand-alone application, and not a spreadsheet. All of the coding appears to be implemented in the VBA code.
Manitoba HVDC Research Centre
204-989-1240 | Canada
PS-CAD - fast, accurate, & easy-to-use power system simulator for the design & verification of all types of power systems.
Matheonics Technology
519-578 2092 | Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
FAZA software tool for the analog filters design - free demo. Also a very extensive filter design tutorial.
Mentor Graphics
800-547-3000 | Wilsonville, OR
SystemVision mixed-signal modeling & simulation environment using the power of VHDL-AMS & SPICE to verify control & mechatronic systems, includes graphical design entry, VHDL-AMS modeling & library tools, leading-edge simulation technology, powerful waveform viewing & analysis tools, HyperLynx - signal integrity & EMI analysis, PowerPCB design environment for complex, high-speed printed circuit boards, shape-based, rules-driven design layout solution.
Modelithics
888-359-6359 | Tampa, FL
Device characterization, modeling and validation services. Large library of capacitor, resistor, inductor and diode models for CAE. Variety of body sizes and part values. Many application notes.
numGuru Technologies
0091-011-43022506 | Delhi, India
Industry's first RF and Microwave simulator with circuit synthesis using evolutionary algorithms.
Optotek
800-361-2911 | Canada
MMICAD Linear Simulator - an analysis & optimization program for both active & passive circuits.
Protel (Altium Limited)
800-544-4186 | Provo, UT
Protel 2004 features hierarchical, multi-channel schematic capture for both PCB & FPGA implementation, mixed-signal simulation, & signal integrity analysis, through to rules-driven board layout, Situs Topological autorouting & CAM file checking & editing.
RF Cool Tools' Real Time Design
A slick Java-based applet (which means it works on any platform) that allows you to build RLC circuits with drag-n-drop interface and plots results on a Cartesian (Bode) or Smith Chart. "What is so slick about it," you ask? The truly slick part is that you can drag points on the response curve to where you would like them to be, and the program automatically adjusts your RLC components to accommodate the curve.
Spectrum Software
408-738-4387 | Sunnyvale, CA
Micro-Cap 8 - an integrated schematic editor & mixed analog/digital simulator that provides an interactive sketch & simulate environment for electronics engineers. Student/Demo version available.
tree Circuit Simulator
408-480-7927 | Jeff Furman | OCS, Inc.
Symbolic analysis for linear circuits. This Freeware takes spice-like net lists as input and computes symbolic z, y, h, g, abcd, ABCD, s and f two-port parameters. Any selection from these two-port parameters may be specified for output. The output is in the form of rational functions. Your favorite circuit elements: R, G, L, C are usable, two-port active and passive elements: gm (vcis), rm (icvs), U (vcvs), B (icis) , GY (gyrator), M (mutual inductance), O (nullor type opamp) are available. Any component may optionally be assigned a numeric value. The furnished program executable runs on the dos command line accepting input from stdin and sending output to stdout. Detailed help including simple input examples, such as Sallen-Key active filters is output with an h in the input stream. Definitions of the two-port parameters, netlist definitions, and references to the method of analysis are also in the help output. The C source, ready to compile with gcc is also furnished, as is a help file.
Zeni EDA
626-552-4155 | Pasadena, CA
Full custom analog mixed signal IC design software. Tools include schematic capture, SPICE Simulation, IC layout, physical verification, parasitic extraction and signal integrity.
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