KiCad version 6.0.0 features a refreshed user interface designed to reduce the barriers of entry for new users and ease friction when switching between KiCad and other design software.

PathWave System Design 2023 speeds design process for 5G non-terrestrial networks and other wireless systems. Allows radio system designers to create digital twins of their architectures and transform from hardware-centric to simulation-centric design flow.

Supports engineers working in radio frequency circuit, sub-assembly, and mission or system-of-systems applications by connecting system, baseband, and hardware verification tools in complete RF system modeling workflow. Performs phased array analysis that captures all non-ideal effects across channels and amplifiers and antennas. Also enables frequency domain nonlinear system modeling to predict application-specific system behavior.

New features include:
• Updated 5G transceiver to support NTN in conjunction with PathWave Vector Signal Analysis 2023.
• Two new simulation user interfaces: the Digital Pre-distortion Explorer for circuit level designers in PathWave Advanced Design System and the DPD Designer for architects in PathWave System Design.
• New Load Pull modeling that creates phased array digital twin with power amplifier models derived from Keysight instrumentation or circuit-level simulation.
• Connectivity with Keysight’s EXata software and PROPSIM Channel Studio software that enables mission engineers to create a 5G network-level digital twin.

Keysight Technologies

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SnapEDA Viewer for Amphenol enables engineers to find readily available digital models -- such as schematic symbols, PCB footprints and 3-D models -- for over 21,000 products, including cable-to-board, D-sub, power, SFP, USB, and QSFP connectors.

PathWave ADS 2023, for high-speed digital (HSD) design, comes with new Memory Designer capabilities for modeling and simulation of next-generation interface standards such as DDR5.