PathWave ADS 2023 enables RF and Microwave product development teams to easily address signal complexity, design densification, multi-technology integration and frequencies moving to 60GHz and beyond. As a result, developers can shorten time-to-market, improve engineering team productivity and deliver competitive design wins.
"PathWave ADS 2023 directly addresses the needs of customers developing multi-technology high speed, high-frequency designs," says Joe Civello, director of RF and Microwave Simulation at Keysight. "This new solution offers workflow and simulation performance improvements that accelerate the design and simulation process while delivering the analysis results necessary to ensure designs meet critical electrical and thermal performance requirements."
RFPro Electromagnetic Simulation for Circuit Designers
Simulation performance enhancements in RFPro, the interactive EM simulator integrated with PathWave ADS, enable rapid design tuning and optimization. New RFPro features include automation of EM-circuit co-simulation setup which ensures that analysis is easily accessible by circuit designers without the help of an EM expert or the need for invasive layout editing. The software also offers advanced EM solvers and meshing technologies accessible via a single unified environment with parallelized simulation acceleration through cloud-based, high-performance computing (HPC) that supports fast, high-capacity simulation.
PathWave ADS 2023 also supports seamless integration with Cadence Virtuoso, Synopsys Custom Compiler and Ansys HFSS to facilitate enterprise electronic design automation signoff workflows.
For RF and Microwave development, PathWave ADS 2023 enhancements include automation of 3D multi-technology assembly (SmartMount) for routing and verification of densely integrated RF modules. Enhanced management of design databases containing complex multi-technology structures enables correct simulation setup and traceability of designs and simulation data was also added. The software supports Python and Microsoft Visual Studio scripting, debugging, automation, processing, utilization and visualization of complex simulation and measurement data that provides the integration and insights needed to achieve optimal designs that meet multiple performance specifications.
Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) distortion specification is the new requirement when designing for digitally modulated signals in RF and microwave applications. PathWave ADS incorporates Keysight instrumentation algorithms for compact test signal generation and rapid EVM distortion calculations to deliver EVM simulation support for any modulated signals at the circuit level, enabling design tuning and optimization.
Multi-physics simulation enhancements in PathWave ADS 2023 also enable designers to accurately identify transient temperature rise to create reliable high-power RF components when deployed in the field to avoid costly premature failures, and ensure power amplifier stability under all operating conditions. When used with RFPro EM visualization, designers can identify the physical locations and frequencies at which instability occurs to fix them before building hardware.
The updated software also allows users to compress what would normally require five days on a single machine into one day with cloud-based high-performance computing (HPC) to perform thorough simulation and optimization.
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