The 2009 release of Advanced Design System (ADS) from Agilent Technologies Inc. is a high-frequency/high-speed co-design tool for integrated circuits (IC), packages and PCBs.

ADS provides circuit, package, board and system designers with a single EDA platform for shared simulation models. According to the company this can minimize design rework, reduce costs and shorten delays in communications during the product design process.

The co-design platform can provide verification of high-frequency or high-speed system performance across the IC, package and printed circuit board designs using common system-verification test benches. Designers can identify and correct component interactions earlier in the design cycle.

ADS 2009 interoperates with Cadence and Mentor back-end design platforms, allowing designers to import Cadence Allegro PCB, Advanced Package Designer and System-In-Package physical design data for co-designing with active components and Design Rule Check results from Cadence Assura, Mentor Calibre or Triquint MailDRC for viewing and correcting within ADS layout environment.

The co-design models available include:

• X-parameters; accurate, non-linear measurement.
  
• 3D electromagnetic parameterized components representing metal shields, antenna radomes, absorbers, packages, interconnects, finite dielectric substrates and wire bonds.
  
• Transistor-level circuits on RFIC, MMIC, LTCC or laminate RF modules and PC boards.
  
• Behavioral models of all types, including Verilog-A/AMS, HDL, MATLAB®, IBIS, C++ and neural networks.
  
• Netlists from HSPICE and Spectre.
  
• Measured signal stimulus and data from Agilent signal, network and logic analyzers.
  
• Prebuilt simulation libraries and sources compliant with the latest wireless standards such as LTE, WiMedia and VWAN wireless HD with MIMO antenna characteristics.
  

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