Design software upgrades productivity, efficiency

20th February 2014

Keysight Technologies (formerly Agilent)

Mick Elliott

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Agilent has unveiled a powerful new version of the Agilent EEsof EDA Advanced Design System software, ADS2014. It has been designed to improve design productivity and efficiency with new technologies and capabilities. The software provides users with new technologies, new capabilities and continued enhancements for silicon RFIC, MMIC, RF printed circuit board, and multi-technology RF module design.

It now has automatic electromagnetic (EM) simulation setup and design partitioning, which automates the removal of SMD and IC active devices, and placement of ports, then reconnection of the design 10X+ faster and .

Physical layout-versus-schematic (LVS) with device recognition and an innovative module-level LVS that uncovers multi-technology wiring and pin-swap errors has been added.

Wireless verification test benches provide circuit design verification solutions for the newest and most challenging multi-band, wide-bandwidth standards (LTE, LTE-A and 802.11ac) with a dramatically simplified user interface.

Layout interconnect design and editing capabilities have been enhanced, including new power and ground planes with smoothing and thermal relief, new intelligent vias and interconnect routes.

Silicon RFIC schematic interoperability with Virtuoso for bi-directional schematic interoperability between ADS and Cadence Virtuoso is also now available.

ADS2014 offers simulation support for Agilent’s DynaFET model, an advanced neural network model for III-V FETs (GaAs and GaN), to accurately model the effects of trapping, de-trapping, and self-heating, in a single, global model, valid for all (active) applications, without the need for tuning.