Visual System Simulator (VSS) Named EDN 2002 Innovation Of The Year Awards Finalist
Applied Wave Research's Communications Systems Design Suite also Selected for EDN Top Products of 2002
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., February 3, 2003 -- Applied Wave Research, Inc. (AWRTM) a leading provider of high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA) tools, today announced the selection of Visual System SimulatorTM (VSS) 2002 communications systems design suite, as a finalist in the EDN 2002 Innovation of the Year Awards competition. VSS software was also selected by EDN for the Top 100 Products List of 2002.
The comprehensive VSS solution enables system engineers to perform top-down analysis of analog and digital communications systems and goes well beyond existing solutions in terms of accurately characterizing radio frequency (RF) impairments. VSS is designed for analyzing wireless communications systems, high-speed wire-line, and electro-optical systems.
"We consider it an honor to have the VSS product selected as a finalist for the very prestigious EDN Innovation award and to have made the magazine's Top 100 Products list," said James Spoto, AWR president and CEO. "The recognition is a great tribute to all AWR employees whose efforts to develop and bring VSS software to market have resulted in a quantum increase in industry engineering productivity."
About Visual System Simulator
The VSS revolutionary discrete time simulation engine and extensive model libraries provide an ideal solution for analyzing systems from the channel through the RF and digital signal processing (DSP) subsystems. VSS software is seamlessly integrated with AWR's Microwave Officeä 2002 circuit design suite enabling bottoms-up analysis to be performed where the transistor level effects are incorporated at the system level through system/circuit co-simulation.
The VSS design suite is an interactive solution for modeling, analyzing and optimizing analog and digital communication systems and enables the user to quickly build graphical block diagrams and analyze the performance using sophisticated built-in measurements and powerful signal generators that support virtually any modulation scheme, including: AM, FM, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), phase shift keying (PSK), and mask shift keying (MSK) quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM).
About EDN 2002 Innovation of the Year Awards
The awards program, sponsored by EDN Magazine, is dedicated to honoring truly outstanding engineering products in the electronics industry. Products/technologies qualifying for a 2002 EDN Innovation award must have been introduced and commercially marketed in 2002. 17 product/technology areas were eligible for consideration in addition to the Innovator of the Year award. A panel of EDN's technical editors selected finalist products in each category. Winners of the awards will be chosen by EDN's readers through an online ballot (March 6 – 24) on the EDN Access Web site (www.edn.com). Finalists will be honored and winning products will be announced at EDN's Innovation/Innovator Awards ceremony on April 22 in San Francisco.
About EDN Top 100 Products
EDN magazine's Top 100 Products is a year-end spotlight that features the industry's top new electronic products. The list is compiled by EDN editors, as a measure of reader enthusiasm, for new products announced in 2002. For more information, go to www.e-insite.net/edn.mag.com
About Applied Wave Research, Inc.
Applied Wave Research was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in El Segundo, California. The company is a supplier of high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA) products for the design of wireless telecommunications equipment, semiconductors, high-speed computers, networking systems, and a variety of other electronics-based products. AWR has sales offices, training centers, and distributors worldwide.
Source: Applied Wave Research
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