Keysight launches Advanced Design System (ADS) software

Wireless testing vendor Keysight Technologies has launched its Advanced Design System (ADS) software.

ADS 2015 features silicon RFIC interoperability with Cadence’s Virtuoso and GoldenGate-in-ADS to increase design efficiency.

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Silicon RFIC interoperability in ADS enables users to edit and simulate schematic designs created in either Virtuoso or ADS. Users can open a Virtuoso IC layout cell view in ADS, instantiate the cell within a package or module, and then run an electromagnetic simulation on the complete design to validate its overall system performance.

Keysight Technologies Advanced Design System (ADS) software

Keysight in a statement said that ADS-Virtuoso interoperability works on top of a baseline Virtuoso process development kit (PDK). ADS 2015 is backed by PDK support from several RF Silicon foundries. Interoperability-enabled PDKs are available from TSMC, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, TowerJazz, IBM, and IHP, and have been validated by customers as part of Keysight’s alpha program.

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