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Post subject: AWR, EAGLEWARE, ETC Which one ?

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:21 am

Captain

Joined: Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:26 pm
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Until recently I have avoided using expensive and often unfriendly commercial design simulation software and instead used various free programs and mathcad routines / spreadsheets etc for such tasks as: Amplifier design and analysis, filters, matching, PLLs etc etc. This approach has served me quite well but there are occasions when I need a bit more than my cheap approach allows. Getting to the point of this question.....

Which design/analysis software is worth considering, and why? The two names that I seem to hear quite a bit are AWR and Eagleware. ????????

Thanks.

alperuslu

Post subject: Re: AWR, EAGLEWARE,,,,,ETC Which one ?

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:18 am

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Joined: Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:02 am
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It depends on what do u expect from the software.Genesys serves good synthesis tools i.e Matching network;Active/Passive/Microwave Filters;Oscillator , Mixer etc.AWR serves good EM simulator in addition to filter synthesis tools.I think Agilent ADS is best for both analysis and synthesis.If u want analysis software u can choose AWR but if u want synthesis software u can choose Genesys.

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