In this video, we show the advanced design system, ADS, the powerful, easy, and complete
design solution for RF, microwave, and high-speed digital designers. With over 30 years of innovation,
ADS has a rich set of tools that help designers to not just simulate but to fully characterize,
optimize and lay out designs. The single integrated design environment uniquely provides circuit,
EM, system and electro-thermal simulators along with schematic capture, post processing
and layout. Let's take a look at some of the unique features that make ADS the tool of
choice for more than 20,000 designers worldwide. We'll start with the ways ADS helps you to
characterize your design's performance.
ADS has an unparallel selection of linear and nonlinear time and frequency domain simulators.
S-parameter and harmonic balance simulate return loss, gain and nonlinearities such
as third order intercept point. Circuit envelope, transient convolution and fast channel simulators,
all unique to ADS, simulate figures of merit such as ACPR, time domain waveforms and eye
diagrams. EMPro, our 3D electromagnetic simulation software, shares a common database with ADS.
These companion products make it easy to integrate true 3D components into your design. Perform
EM circuit co-simulation by automatically generating a layout lookalike component, making
it easy and intuitive to see where to connect schematic symbols like SMD parts or active
devices. The automatic EM setup simplifies the task of setting up complex designs for
co-simulation by eliminating the manual steps of removing lumped parts and inserting ports.
With the ability to assemble multiple adjacent designs implemented in completely different
technologies in a single workspace, you can design entire assemblies using the integrated
circuit and EM simulators. Interoperability with Cadence Virtuoso enables RFIC designers
to characterize designs with high levels of integration. The open access database makes
it possible for you to open Virtuoso designs in ADS, thus taking advantage of its advanced
feature. Using wireless verification testbenches, designers validate a design's performance
in its intended environment. Important specs such as ACPR and EVM are verified with the
easy-to-use standards base user interface. The fast channel simulator and the parallel
bus simulator, along with the integration of IBIS models, EM-based models, and other
frequency domain models are used by high-speed digital designers to design high-speed channels
such as PCI express and DDR4.
Use the integrated Controlled Impedance Line Designer to explore and optimize pre layout
transmission lines. Next, let's take a look at how ADS helps you optimize and improve
your designs. Once an initial design is done, ADS's optimizers further improve a design's
nominal performance. The popular optimization cockpit simplifies the entire optimization
process with a complete dashboard at your fingertips. And tuning shows how results are
sensitive to parameter values. Using the powerful data display, you learn much about your design's
performance by post processing and analyzing data without re-running simulations. Comparing
results from multiple simulations is easy using datasets.
Designs must have high yield. ADS's unique and easy-to-use statistical capabilities including
Yield Optimization and Design of Experiments, pinpoint and correct problems. For high-power
IC applications, designers identify and correct thermal issues early in the design process
with the integrated electro-thermal solution. Keysight remains on the forefront of simulation
technology with the development of advanced models. The ADS DynaFET model, a breakthrough
model based on neural network technology, precisely captures self-heating and trapping
effects, improving simulation accuracy and ultimately improving your design. Finally,
let's take a look at the features of ADS that help you layout your design and get it ready
for production. Designers generate complete RF layouts with ADS's full featured layout
tool.
With the largest numbest of fully endorsed GaAs, GaN and RF silicone foundry design kits,
you lay out your design in your foundry's specific process. Custom toolbars and layout
command line editor speed up your layout development. Easily route RF-centric transmission lines
and traces with smart interconnects. Drive designs from schematic or layout and synchronize
between the two. The built-in desktop DRC and LVS with their unique physical LVS with
device recognition and module level LVS, give you confidence that your design is ready for
production. After your design is done, generate a fully nonlinear X-parameter model in ADS
that you can provide to colleagues or customers for simulation while simultaneously protecting
your IP. These are the same as the X-parameters that you can measure with your nonlinear vector
network analyzer.
In this video, we have shown some of the capabilities that make ADS the preferred design solution
for RF, microwave and high-speed digital designers. To find out more about using ADS to fully
characterize, optimize and produce your designs and to download a free trial, visit us at
this website.