Microwave & RF Design Tools

 Link of High Frequency design software

• SONNET – SONNET IMS video Tutorials – oriented towards planar 3D ( pcb etc )
• Ansys –  HFSS – High Frequency Structure Simulator – appears to be full 3d EM solver- Demo Center
• ADS – Advanced Design Suite –Demo Videos on YouTube
• AWR – Advancing Wireless Revolution – Demo Videos –  Advanced Wave Research – combines a linear simulator with E-M analysis. They even allow you to plug in EM software from their competitors, such as Sonnet.
• Momentum EM Simulator
  
• Cadence
  
• PSpice & HSpice
  

Individual Tool Pages with more details here in this blog

• SONNET
• Microwave Office
• ADS
• AWR

 

EM Simulation

• Summary of Open source tools
   

 

Topics / Buzzwords

• Harmonic Balance
• X Parameter
  
• Load Pull   –  a page in this blog because all the explanations I saw are awful. 

 

Historical

• History of Microwave Software