SANTA ROSA, CA – Keysight Technologies is integrating its PathWave advanced design system RFPro environment with Ansys HFSS electromagnetic simulation.

RFPro is an electromagnetic environment for RF and microwave circuit designers. HFSS is a finite element method solver. As a result of this collaboration, RF and microwave engineers can reportedly eliminate manually coupling design tools.

The initial collaboration between the two companies, originally announced in February, improved the workflow between their products to speed time-to-market for 5G, aerospace and defense, and automotive applications.

"Keysight’s PathWave framework helps customers get to market faster from design through production. Developing open interfaces between design and test software products enables end-to-end workflow solutions across system/circuit design, verification and manufacturing," said Tom Lillig, general manager of Keysight PathWave Software Solutions. "We have expanded PathWave beyond Keysight products to connect Ansys HFSS with PathWave ADS RFPro. This partnership enables customers to solve large, complex development challenges even faster."

"Ansys is committed to building world-class products in an open ecosystem," said Steve Pytel, vice president of Ansys Product Management. "Collaborating with Keysight complements this strategy, enabling Keysight and Ansys to provide comprehensive solutions that address our customers’ engineering challenges."

"Many customers couple Keysight's PathWave ADS and RFPro for RF circuit design with Ansys HFSS to verify and validate their assembled RF modules,” said Steve Pytel, vice president of Ansys Product Management. “The manual process to move design files between tools is time-consuming and can create bottlenecks, especially as die-counts increase for complex RF modules in applications like 5G and 6G. We are collaborating with Keysight to alleviate this pain point, ultimately creating an efficient workflow that drives fast results for our mutual customers and spurs innovation within the industry."

The PathWave ADS RFPro HFSS link option will be available in Keysight’s ADS 2022 and is expected to ship in the summer of 2021.

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