AWR Corporation is an electronic design automation (EDA) software company, formerly known as Applied Wave Research, and then acquired by National Instruments The company develops, markets, sells and supports engineering software, which provides a computer-based environment for the design of hardware for wireless and high speed digital products.
AWR's customers include companies involved in the design and development of analog and mixed signal semiconductors, wireless communications equipment, aerospace and defense systems.
The company was founded in 1994 by Joseph E. Pekarek,[1] Ted A. Miracco, Stephen A. Maas and Paul Cameron, from Hughes Aircraft, in Fullerton, California.
AWR re-engineered the software and evolved the technology and libraries into a new tool: Visual System Simulator (VSS), which was introduced in 2002.
STAAR developed proprietary parallelized 3D FEM EM simulation and analysis capability, marketed as Analyst software.