ATLANTA – Intercept Technologies Inc. announced that National Instruments has chosen the Pantheon and Mozaix RF design tools for its latest generation of RF instruments. 
 
These RF design tools feature bi-directional interfaces to HFSS, ADS, and Microwave Office, as well as the advanced reverse-engineering option, Palindrome, which automatically creates a schematic from a layout (parts and symbols are placed from library information, or can be automatically generated on the fly). The products are available on Sun Solaris, Linux, and Windows platforms.

The first product to be manufactured using the Pantheon RF design suite is the National Instruments PXIe-5663 6.6 GHz vector signal analyzer, a compact RF signal analyzer capable of high throughput RF measurements with 50 MHz of instantaneous bandwidth.
 
“National Instruments selected Intercept tools for our latest generation of RF instruments,” said Jin Bains, R&D manager at the Santa Rosa site of National Instruments. “Designing such high-performance RF instruments requires very intricate PC board design.  The Pantheon tool is well suited to these challenges and gives us the right amount of control over difficult geometries, which is vital to our designs.”