--- title: Microwave Office Reviews meta_title: 'Microwave Office Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 17 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Microwave Office works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 17 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-05-05' parent_category: name: CAD url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad --- # Microwave Office Reviews **Vendor:** NI **Category:** [Other CAD Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-cad) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 17 ## About Microwave Office Microwave Office software is known for its intuitive interface, innovative design automation, and powerful harmonic balance circuit simulation. Microwave Office along with Visual System Simulator, AXIEM and Analyst software tools form the NI AWR Design Environment platform. Together they offer design engineers a complete RF and microwave circuit, system, and EM co-simulation environment, supporting successful product development for today's most challenging communications and aerospace/defense applications. ## Microwave Office Reviews ### 1. Fast and Accurate EM solver **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hari P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Microwave Office?** Microwave office is very user friendly. System level simulation, circuit level simulation and EM simulations are can be done in single AWR's unified model environment. **What do you dislike about Microwave Office?** Even though network synthesis wizard is very powerful, popular and accurate, at present matching by using balun's is not available in the network synthesis wizard. **What problems is Microwave Office solving and how is that benefiting you?** It can do EM simulations fast by using axiem simulator. By using AWR we can achieve time to market without compromising with the accuracy of the results. Also 3d simulations can be done by using analyst simulator. ### 2. The software you need for simulating planar structures in minutes...!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kapil G. | RF Application Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Microwave Office?** The closed form circuit models along with EM based models for interconnects and also FEM quasi-static models help save simulation time since they give results instantaneously. EM/FEM based models in Microwave Office are already EM simulated for standard substrates and one can even add custom substrates if required. **What do you dislike about Microwave Office?** More stream lined and feature rich 3D editor would be a great thing to see **What problems is Microwave Office solving and how is that benefiting you?** Microwave Office has various vendor libraries available readily withing the software which helps avoid visiting various vendor websites for their libraries. It's plethora of features like unified data model architecture, selective EM simulation, support for other EM simulators help save time in simulation, debugging and verificaiton. ### 3. User friendly GUI, Easy to understand and learning curve **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** HAMID ALI H. | Research Associate (RF Engineer), Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Microwave Office?** The most helpful thing is easily available to help and tutorials and easy-to-follow steps to design circuits & layouts, EM simulations, & complex MMIC design. **What do you dislike about Microwave Office?** There is more help available on the internet for ADS as compared to AWR MIcrowave office. many tutorials making the task of RF design & learning curve smooth. **What problems is Microwave Office solving and how is that benefiting you?** Microsoft helps build complex MMIC, RF circuits,& PCBS in easy to follow steps. It is easy to work & switch between circuits and layouts,& set up EM simulations ### 4. Good experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Microwave Office?** 1. User-friendly 2. Powerful tool 3. Fast and accurate **What do you dislike about Microwave Office?** 1. Lack of resources for advanced learning **What problems is Microwave Office solving and how is that benefiting you?** It saves my time and cost in finding out the root cause of the performance degradation of an RF product. Otherwise, I need to measure each component one by one which is time-wasted. ### 5. Work experience on microwave **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Salman Ashraf H. | Senior Microwave Expert Engineer , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Microwave Office?** You can add or remove required modules according to your demands **What do you dislike about Microwave Office?** It can't arrange meetings and training online like other apps **What problems is Microwave Office solving and how is that benefiting you?** It can resolve and highlight important issue in design if you understand it properly ### 6. Innovative & Supportive **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prince Muhammad A. | Operations Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Microwave Office?** Designing Circuits on systems and can make easy changes as desired **What do you dislike about Microwave Office?** Availability of effective product which is designed on system **What problems is Microwave Office solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basic Circuit Understanding knowledge ### 7. Microwave office is very knowledgeable **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naveen K. | Radio Design and Development Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Microwave Office?** Microwave office gives a very good knowledge in brief for the people who are looking for technical knowledge, it's really appreciated. **What do you dislike about Microwave Office?** You can add more content on technology rather than content for only marketing, and I dislike my information sharing to the third party just to give you a feedback on your product. **What problems is Microwave Office solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's very much user friendly but algorithms has to be improved ### 8. Best works for and gives insights on high frequency circuits **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pranita H. | Blogger, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Microwave Office?** Easy to build circuits and get performance parameters in detail in different formats for better performance analysis. **What do you dislike about Microwave Office?** Everytime I have to add a component in a circuit, I need to re-align all other circuit components as it doesn't adjust automatically. **Recommendations to others considering Microwave Office:** At first it may look like complicated but it's one of the easy-to-use GUI software with detailed performance analysis. **What problems is Microwave Office solving and how is that benefiting you?** Filter circuits Easy modifications in the component characteristics and result set paramaters ### 9. RF design engineering has been using MWO for over 3 years. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Microwave Office?** Simple user interface. Only 2.5D EM sim. **What do you dislike about Microwave Office?** It is only a 2.5D EM sim compared to CSTMW **Recommendations to others considering Microwave Office:** Get both licenses for the regular and EM sims to be able to simulate layouts. **What problems is Microwave Office solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly PCB/Layout sim, filter design, diplexer design, power budget analysis. ### 10. Best RF circuit design tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Microwave Office?** It is easy and fast to find components and draw your model **What do you dislike about Microwave Office?** It does not provide a straightforward integration tool with other Electromagnetic software as HFSS and CST **What problems is Microwave Office solving and how is that benefiting you?** Phase shifter, power divider. A fast tool with accurate results ### 11. Powerful and Easy to Use Tool for RF Simulations **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Noor A. | Physics Teacher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Microwave Office?** Friendly User Interface and speed of simulations. **What do you dislike about Microwave Office?** Nothing to dislike about MO, very easy and professional to use for building and simulating RF circuits **What problems is Microwave Office solving and how is that benefiting you?** Filter design, Low noise amplifiers design and power dividers. It helped me understand how microwave circuits are built. ### 12. Simulation accuracy is commendable with very nominal time **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Microwave Office?** Intuitive tool options and understandable help content. **What do you dislike about Microwave Office?** Graphs and Plots of the data should have been more colorful. **Recommendations to others considering Microwave Office:** Should have a basic understanding of RF Concepts and algebraic equation. **What problems is Microwave Office solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am simulating the complete RF Front end receiver chain blocks. Able to calculate the vital RF Parameters. ### 13. Microwave Circuits design and simulation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Microwave Office?** It helps to generate the schematic of microwave circuits and systems. **What do you dislike about Microwave Office?** It is not full of worthy for multilayer design circuits. **Recommendations to others considering Microwave Office:** Those who are working in microwave active circuits in lower frequency range than this will suitable for them. **What problems is Microwave Office solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oscillator circuit design.I verified the theoretical concepts of reflection oscillator. ### 14. Microstrip Expertise **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Wireless | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Microwave Office?** Ease of UI and the ability to create end to end RF filters. **What do you dislike about Microwave Office?** There is nothing specific to not understand or dislike :) **What problems is Microwave Office solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's a handy filter design expertise tool for LOS design. ### 15. Best simulation experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Microwave Office?** Microwave simulation of microstrip lines **What do you dislike about Microwave Office?** Nothing is there which i do not like or some not correct **What problems is Microwave Office solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simulating matching and microstrip lines ### 16. Microwave expert **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Microwave Office?** Hardly work for community of data communications **What do you dislike about Microwave Office?** Hardware carry to site difficulty and spare are required **What problems is Microwave Office solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bring like over air 100kms ### 17. Light but powerful tool for RF circuits siulations **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Taras P. | RF Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Microwave Office?** The simplicity and the speed of simulations are what I like best about this software **What do you dislike about Microwave Office?** There is nothing to dislike about this tool. It is good for sertain circle of RF circuit simulations **Recommendations to others considering Microwave Office:** You should definetly use it for simulations RF circuits **What problems is Microwave Office solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lumped elements circuits, planar devices as filters and power dividers - [View Microwave Office pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/microwave-office/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-29+13%3A17%3A42+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=2cc6020d-74af-466e-9a3d-35e7e80f149e&secure%5Btoken%5D=6978213f42bfdf7bbc8b00cd2b9a0b83e9a7f27c66a591ae5a663f690c9eb7ac&format=llm_user) ## Microwave Office Features **Design** - PCB layout editing - Schematic editor **Tools** - 3D modeling tools - Component placement **Library** - Component libraries **Platform** - Board size - Layers **Customization** - Custom commands - Custom interface ## Top Microwave Office Alternatives - [Altium Develop](https://www.g2.com/products/altium-develop/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (990 reviews) - [Autodesk Fusion](https://www.g2.com/products/autodesk-fusion/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (510 reviews) - [Onshape](https://www.g2.com/products/onshape/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (682 reviews)