Advanced Design System (ADS) is an electronic design automation software system produced by PathWave Design, a division of Keysight Technologies.[1] It provides an integrated design environment to designers of RF electronic products such as mobile phones,[2] pagers, wireless networks, satellite communications, radar systems, and high-speed data links.[3]
ADS (Advanced Design System) from Keysight is an electronic design automation software for RF, microwave, and high speed digital applications. It uses some of the most innovative and commercially successful technologies, including Harmonic Balance, Circuit Envelope, Transient Convolution, Keysight Ptolemy, X-parameter, Momentum and 3D EM simulators (including both FEM and FDTD solvers).
ADS provides full, standards-based design and verification with Wireless Libraries and circuit-system-EM co-simulation in an integrated platform for WiMAX, LTE, multi-gigabit per second data links, radar, & satellite applications. ADS combines schematic, layout, circuit, electro-thermal co-simulation and three full-wave 3D EM technologies for IC, package, laminate/PCB and 3D EM component co-design in a single-vendor, integrated platform solution.
Silicon RFIC Interoperability allows ADS to edit and simulate designs created in Cadence Design System's Virtuoso software and vice-versa. Following are the specific features that are added as part of the Silicon RFIC Interoperability in this release:
Unforced net names may be renamed by ADS after an edit. In an IC Interoperable flow, these renames can break saved signals and measurements from Cadence Design System's Virtuoso software and initially cause missing DC Back-Annotation results in ADS.
To model unrelated metal fill: either automatically remove unrelated metall fill or replace them by an equivalent dielectric layer to do a fast impact analysis which accounts for the dominant effect of the metal fill, or keep them for a rigorous analysis. For more information, see Preprocessor Options to Model Unrelated Metal fill.
ADS 2016.01 has a faster 3D layout viewer solution, linked the 3D View button in layout (or View > 3D View > all in Layout). The 3D EM preview and EM Visualization and Far Field 3D views use the same solution as in previous ADS releases.
From ADS 2016.01, in ADS help when you open a page using the "Open a link in new tab" option the help does not opens a page in different tab by default. You need to set the preferences to open any link in a new tab.
To set the preferences:
License Setup wizard may not be able to start license server with many license files. During setup, it may lead to a situation where a command prompt window appears/disappears incessantly. This is due to the fact that License Setup wizard is not able to start lmgrd with a long command line and may get stuck in a loop.
Workaround:
Dongle drivers for Flex-10 dongles on Linux are release specific. Installing the latest dongle drivers on Linux will function properly only for the most recent EEsof releases.
Workaround: Install and use dongle drivers as needed. If you need to run the most recent EEsof releases, use the latest Flex-10 dongle driver. If you need to use older releases, uninstall the latest dongle driver and re-install the older dongle driver
Using the default port to connect to a license server may cause a delay when checking out licenses. If no port is given in the license file, Flexera scans ports 27000 to 27009 to find the port. Starting from FlexNet Publisher 2015 (aka version 11.13.1), the default timeout for the response from each port increased from .1 seconds to 3 seconds.
To avoid the delay, KSM now issues licenses with port 27009 instead of leaving this blank. The EEsof License Setup Wizard (from Licensing 2017.01 onwards) handles some common situations such as: where it detects license file(s) without port, when users get a new license file with port 27009, or when all license files for a vendor daemon does not have same port.
Workaround: If the user cannot change the port, or wants to use the default Flexera ports, the environment variable FLEXLM_TIMEOUT can be set to .2 seconds (200000), to minimize the performance degradation. However, if the network latency is an issue in your environment, you may need to fine-tune this setting to minimize the general performance degradation while still accommodating the network latency.
The Product Selector tool will be unable to display the license server status properly when connected to older license server.
Workaround: Upgrade your license server to the latest version.
EEsof Licensing Tools installer can hang on systems with McAfee LiveSafe installed and running the default firewall settings.
Workaround: Prior to installing EEsof Licensing Tools, temporarily turn off the McAfee LiveSafe firewall.
Licensing setup steps on systems with McAfee LiveSafe installed can fail.
Workaround: Under the McAfee LiveSafe firewall settings, under Port and Settings, allow the use of port 27001 for lmgrd.exe under the EEsof Licensing Tools installation bin directory. Under Internet Connections for Programs , enable lmgrd.exe, aglmmgr.exe and aglmwizard.exe for all devices and turn off monitoring.
When run in a VNC session, ADS might not open when the window manager is set to Tab Window Manager (twm).
Workaround: Switch to Gnome or KDE as the window manager will fix this problem. Consult your VNC administrator for making this switch via updating the $HOME/.vnc/xstartup file.
When run in a VNC session, ADS will not start if the XRENDER extension is not present in the X server.
Workaround: You can run the following command to verify whether the RENDER extension is present:
Advanced Design System is the leading electronic design automation software for RF, microwave, and signal integrity applications.
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.
Main Features:
- Complete schematic capture and layout environment
- Innovative and industry leading circuit and system simulators
- Direct, native access to 3D planar and full 3D EM field solvers
- Largest number of process design kits (PDKs) developed and maintained by leading foundry and industry partners
- EDA and Design Flow Integration with companies such as Cadence, Mentor, and Zuken
- Optimization Cockpit for real-time feedback and control when using any of 12 powerful optimizers
- X-parameter model generation from circuit schematic and Agilent's NVNA for nonlinear high-frequency design
- Up-to-date Wireless Libraries enable design and verification of the latest emerging wireless standards
Advanced Design System (ADS) is a powerful electronic design automation software system. It offers complete design integration to designers of products such as cellular and portable phones, pagers, wireless networks, radar and satellite communications systems, and high-speed digital serial links.
Advanced Design System is the industry leader in high-frequency design. It supports system and RF design engineers developing all types of RF designs, from simple to the most complex, from RF/microwave modules to integrated MMICs for communications and aerospace/defense applications.
With a complete set of simulation technologies ranging from frequency-, time-, numeric and physical domain simulation to electromagnetic field simulation, ADS lets designers fully characterize and optimize designs. The single, integrated design environment provides system, circuit, and electromagnetic simulators, along with schematic capture, layout, and verification capability -- eliminating the stops and starts associated with changing design tools in mid-cycle.
Use ADS and its highly integrated links and support as a basis for your design verification solution. ADS can be used for virtual prototyping, debugging, or as an aid in manufacturing test. To enhance engineering productivity and shorten time-to-market, ADS software offers a high level of design automation and applications intelligence. This proven software environment is easily extensible: you can customize ADS by adding features focused on your particular application needs. ADS runs on PCs and workstations, with complete file compatibility between platforms and across networks.
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Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, has introduced the new PathWave Advanced Design System (ADS) 2023, an integrated design and simulation software that rapidly addresses increasing design complexity and higher frequencies in the radio frequency (RF) and microwave industry.
Keysight's PathWave ADS 2023 includes enhancements to electromagnetic (EM) simulation for circuit designers. It also streamlines integration of multi-technology circuit assembly and simulation into enterprise electronic design automation (EDA) design workflows. 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, customers can shorten time-to-market, improve engineering team productivity and deliver competitive design wins.
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