AWR®

Success
Story

Creowave Trusts Microwave Office and

Designs Precise Filters Right the First Time

CUSTOMER BACKGROUND Application:

Creowave Oy is the leading provider of measurement electronics for high- Filters
performance multi-phase metering and telecom radio testing- and filtering AWR Software:
solutions. Creowave TETRA repeaters improve radio network coverage in Microwave Office®
demanding circumstances. Creowave offers solutions for covering the network
at indoor- outdoor- and explosive ATEX areas. Creowave’s strong technical
knowledge combined with branch- and business knowledge has created a solid
base for the company’s steady growth.

THE DESIGN CHALLENGE

Creowave uses Microwave Office® to design filters used in its radio testing
solutions for the telecommunications industry. These solutions include diplexers,
bandpass, bandstop, and high pass filters that address spurious emissions,
multiband testing, and passive intermodulation. In addition, Creowave provides
complex solutions customized to meet specific customer needs—making first
time design success critical as filters have a very short time-to-market window of
opportunity, leaving no room for multiple design cycles.

THE SOLUTION
The Microwave Office unique combination of ease-of-use and powerful “For Creowave
technologies enabled Creowave to ramp up immediately and exceed the it is extremely
requirements for speed and accuracy. Creowave was able to design the custom important to
filters to very exacting specifications, correctly the first time. This saved time
succeed on the
and helped them to deliver products quickly.
first round. We
“We chose Microwave Office because it is easy to learn, easy to use, fast, and
don’t do many
delivers precise results. With Microwave Office it is possible to just start working
design-rounds
without investing precious time in several weeks of training. This is not possible
because the
with other tools. For Creowave it is extremely important to succeed on the first
round. We don’t do many design-rounds because the filters have to be on the filters have to be
market fast. We believe that is not possible with any other tools besides AWR.” on the market
fast. We believe
that this is not
possible with
any other tools
besides AWR.”
Jyrki Koski
Managing Director
Creowave
www.creowave.com
Creowave 2110-2170 MHz bandstop filter and
corresponding Microwave Office layout.
(CW-DPF-2110-2170-E11-M2)

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