Agilent Technologies Inc. announced a powerful new version of Advanced
Design System software (ADS) 2014. Designed to dramatically improve
design productivity and efficiency with new technologies and
capabilities, ADS 2014 is the software's most significant ADS release to
date.
Advanced Design System is the world’s leading electronic design
automation software for RF, microwave, and high speed digital
applications. In a powerful and easy-to-use interface, ADS pioneers the
most innovative and commercially successful technologies, such as
X-parameters and 3D EM simulators, used by leading companies in the
wireless communication & networking and aerospace & defense
industries. For WiMAX, LTE, multi-gigabit per second data links, radar,
& satellite applications, ADS provides full, standards-based design
and verification with Wireless Libraries and circuit-system-EM
co-simulation in an integrated platform. Watch our ADS 30-Second Demos
to see the powerful and easy-to-use ADS interface in action.
ADS 2014 Enhancements
ADS is the industry's leading electronic design automation software for
RF, microwave and signal-integrity applications. ADS 2014 provides users
with new technologies, new capabilities and continued enhancements for
silicon RFIC, MMIC, RF printed circuit board, and multi-technology RF
module design. Features include:
- 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
20X+ fewer mouse clicks.
- Physical layout-versus-schematic (LVS) with device recognition and an
innovative module-level LVS that uncovers multi-technology wiring and
pin-swap errors.
- Wireless verification test benches that 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.
- Improved layout interconnect design and editing capabilities,
including new power and ground planes with smoothing and thermal relief,
new intelligent vias and interconnect routes.
- Controlled Impedance Line Designer for quickly and accurately
optimizing stack-up and line geometry for multi-gigabit-per-second
chip-to-chip links.
- Silicon RFIC schematic interoperability with Virtuoso for
bi-directional schematic interoperability between ADS and Cadence
Virtuoso.
- ADS Board Link, the next-generation printed circuit board integration
solution for bi-directional transfer of layouts, schematics and
libraries between ADS and enterprise PCB tools.
- 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.
Advanced Design System 2014.01 Product Release
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies Inc. is the world's premier measurement company and
a technology leader in chemical analysis, life sciences, diagnostics,
electronics and communications. The company's 20,600 employees serve
customers in more than 100 countries.
On Sept. 19, 2013, Agilent announced plans to separate into two publicly
traded companies through a tax-free spinoff of its electronic
measurement business. The new company is named Keysight Technologies,
Inc. The separation is expected to be completed in early November 2014.
About Keysight Technologies
On Sept. 19, 2013, Agilent Technologies announced plans to separate into
two publicly traded companies through a tax-free spinoff of its
electronic measurement business. The new company, Keysight Technologies,
began operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of Agilent on Aug. 1, 2014
with a full separation anticipated in early November 2014. Keysight is
expected to trade on the NYSE under the symbol KEYS.
Keysight is a global electronic measurement technology and market leader
helping to transform its customers’ measurement experience through
innovation in wireless, modular, and software solutions. Keysight
provides electronic measurement instruments and systems and related
software, software design tools and services used in the design,
development, manufacture, installation, deployment and operation of
electronic equipment.