RF Synthesis for Wireless Communication, Intellience, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems

"An enormous opportunity exists to improve the speed of the design of analog, radio-frequency (RF), and microwave circuits through the use of synthesis - the automatic creation of circuits based on user input specifications. Existing tools provide minimalassistance for fast and accurate synthesis of RF and microwave systems. In addition, available software is essentially limited to point tools, or software suitable for only one or two types of circuits.Engineers would benefit from a software package for the integrated synthesis and simulation of RF and microwave systems. Included with this package should be a seamless flow from system design to physical realization.Eagleware's vision is an integrated synthesis and simulation environment for component and system level design. During Phase I, Eagleware proved the feasibility of this complete design environment by prototyping the interface and by defining andcompleting the development of S/FILTER, the lumped and distributed direct filter synthesis program. During the Phase II effort, Eagleware will continue to develop the system to synthesis to simulation environment and will expand its offering of synthesisprograms to include mixers, broadband couplers, linear low-noise amplifiers, and high-power nonlinear amplifiers."