SANTA CLARA, CA – Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the availability of the next major release of its core high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA) software, the new Advanced Design System (ADS) 2006A.
 
"The ability to create an RF system, rearrange system blocks quickly to improve performance, and then implement some of the circuits straight from the simulator makes the communications system design process faster and more efficient than ever before," said Daren McClearnon, product marketing manager with Agilent's EEsof EDA division. "By building bridges from these RF architect tools to ADS, we've given ADS users access to new technology without disrupting their established design flow. Some key customers are already adding RF Architect for ADS to their license pools, so clearly they agree."
 
Agilent received the RF system architecture capabilities in Genesys when it acquired Eagleware in August 2005. The company is retaining the Eagleware platform while integrating key technology into the ADS design flow to increase designers' speed and efficiency. The integrated capabilities in ADS 2006A include:
 
·          WhatIF - an intermediate frequency (IF) planning tool for RF system architects
·          Spectrasys - a continuous-spectrum RF system simulator with root-cause analysis
·          Synthesis - eight design assistants that implement manufacture-ready circuit-level designs, such as image-reject filters for RF boards
 
The ADS release also contains links to the Agilent Knowledge Center for real-time application help and problem solving. The Agilent Knowledge Center is an online technical support forum and support data archive that is accessed by more than 10,000 registered users worldwide. The ADS 2006A user documentation is similarly linked.