EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-Mobile-phone design and testing company Applied Wave Research Inc. announced it acquired Aplac Solutions Oy. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Both companies sell software to mobile-phone companies to test the RF functions of handsets. Aplac counts Nokia Corp. as a major customer.
“The merger of Applied Wave Research and Aplac Solutions is an RF designer’s match made in heaven,” said Olli Pekonen, Aplac’s managing director and chief executive officer. “Communications designs have become incredibly complex, and our customers, who include the most prominent mobile-phone manufacturers in the world, need a powerful simulation solution that also offers easy integration with best-in-class, third-party tools and an intuitive, open environment. The combination of Aplac’s incomparable RF simulation technology and AWR’s unique, open design environment provides our designers with the best of both worlds: powerful, speedy simulation and an easy-to-use, integrated design platform.”
AWR said it will use the acquisition to expand into Europe. The company said it plans to retain all Aplac employees, and the Aplac simulation technology will continue to be supported and enhanced in Finland as an independent simulation platform.
