The Analog Office 2006 design suite includes the second generation of AWR's unique Intelligent Net (iNet) technology, which powers "on the fly" interconnect extraction through an advanced interconnect-based design methodology. The new release features dramatic improvement in layout-editing capacity and performance. Speed in common layout operations, such as opening designs, redrawing, and general editing, is now up to 100 times faster than the previous version, claims the company. Physical layouts of hundreds of thousands of devices can be opened and viewed in a matter of seconds rather than minutes. The tool suite provides an open RF-design platform with five EM simulators, four circuit simulators, and a complete physical design and verification toolset, all fully integrated into one design platform. The company recently acquired APLAC and its EM simulator. The tool allows the direct import of Synopsys HSPICE and Cadence Spectre netlists and supports multiple technologies for seamless co-design of IC package modules.