Applied Wave Research has announced Analog Office 2006 software for the design of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for next-generation communications products. Built on interactive AWR Design Environment, Analog Office 2006 provides open RF design platform with 5 electromagnetic simulators, 4 circuit simulators, and a complete physical design and verification toolset. It includes Intelligent Net technology, which powers on-the-fly interconnect extraction, and physical layouts of hundreds of thousands of devices can be opened and viewed in seconds. Also included, design flow and validated process design kits enable multiple tape-outs. AWR will release the Analog Office 2006 design suite to customers in Q2 2006. A beta version is available immediately for customers with support contracts. The product supports Windows 2000, XP, and Linux. U.S. list prices for yearly, time-based licenses range from $8,000 - $45,000 depending upon configurations.