- RF System Explorer streamlines system and circuit level design
workflows for early exploration of system architectures in Advanced
Design System
- Digital Pre-Distortion Explorer and Digital Pre-Distortion
Designer accelerate wide bandgap power amplifier design and
validation using the Dynamic Gain Model
- SystemVue delivers complete Satcom modeling and simulation
solutions for 5G non-terrestrial network, DVB-S2X, and phased array
product development
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) introduces Keysight EDA
2024, a tightly integrated suite of electronic design automation
(EDA) software tools that ensures first pass success. This new
integrated EDA software facilitates a “shift left” approach to
increase productivity for engineers developing high speed, high
frequency products in multiple applications.
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RF System Explorer seamlessly integrates
Spectrasys diagnostics, empowering Advanced Design System circuit
designers with advanced radio frequency line-up capabilities.
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Shift left is an established electrical engineering practice
that moves design validation forward in the development cycle to
accelerate time-to-market. The rising complexity of electronic
systems demands that designers complete as much validation in the
virtual domain where it is easier and more cost-effective to
correct functional and physical issues. Implementation of accurate
modeling and simulation methodologies that create virtual
prototypes and digital twins is essential to handling complexity.
Key to building accurate models and faster simulations is
incorporation of actual measurement data into the design and
validation process in virtual space.
Keysight EDA 2024 software includes new system and circuit
design workflow integration, power amplifier modeling and
simulation optimization, and Satcom design evolution enhancements.
The improvements expand on the software automation, intellectual
property and design data management, and simulation acceleration
capabilities previously announced. Powered by Keysight measurement
science, the new tools provide engineers with a comprehensive
solution that speeds virtual prototype creation with highly
accurate validation prior to building physical prototypes and
starting volume production manufacturing.
Keysight EDA 2024 software suite offers the following shift left
updates:
Streamlining System and Circuit Design Workflows
The RF System Explorer integrates system architecture
exploration and analysis features from SystemVue into Advanced
Design System (ADS) to enable design sharing between system and
circuit level workflows. RF System Explorer allocates a
hierarchical subsystem and parameters to a circuit designer to
change radio frequency (RF) block parameters or select the analysis
path without impacting the overall architecture. Circuit designers
can incorporate their circuit design or derived behavioral model
into the allocated subsystem for RF verification and
optimization.
Connected workflows between SystemVue and ADS enable designers
to extract models of the circuit design and simulate them using RF
System Explorer. Streamlined workflows provide more efficient
communication between architects and subsystem engineers in
enterprise teams. System architects pre-configure their own
templates in SystemVue for more effective collaboration with their
RF circuit design teammates. Engineering teams also avoid
duplication of results visualization in ADS. The API-based tool
integration maintains an open environment with the option for
third-party software connectivity.
Optimizing Wide Bandgap Power Amplifier Modeling and
Simulation
Like RF System Explorer’s workflow integration, the Digital
Pre-Distortion (DPD) Explorer and DPD Designer tools optimize power
amplifier design methodology across levels of abstraction. These
tools enable power amplifier designers working on broadband
applications -- including 5G FR2, DVB-S2X, and WLAN – to leverage a
new Dynamic Gain Model that accounts for non-linear memory effects
in topologies such as GaN Doherty.
Compact waveforms deliver unparalleled simulation speed and DPD
optimization that improves the entire power amplifier design and
validation process. DPD Explorer and DPD Designer utilize the same
precise measurement science and algorithms found in Keysight’s
PNA-X to ensure high performance results for adjacent channel power
ratio (ACPR) and error vector magnitude (EVM) metrics.
Evolving Satcom Design for 5GNTN, DVB-S2X, and Phased Array
Applications
SystemVue enhancements address 5G non-terrestrial network (NTN),
DVB-S2X, and phased array development projects.
For 5G NTN, SystemVue updates the 5G New Radio (NR) simulation
library with 1024 QAM modulation for 3GPP Release 17 and associated
MCS table. The library supports full end-to-end physical layer
system simulation of various NTN deployments, a new 5G channel
model, and an advanced transceiver. The channel model for NTN
provides all the propagation characteristics to model a variety of
satellite links. It supports large path delay, large-frequency
Doppler Shift, and satellite trajectory visualization.
SystemVue reduces risk, cost, and time-to-market testing
satellite payload, gateway, and user equipment (UE) receiver
designs with 3GPP 38.811 compliant models in simulation. Satcom
system engineers can evaluate design performance under varied
channel impairment conditions in minutes and optimize link closure
margins. The comprehensive 5G NTN solution, including Keysight
Propsim emulation and Ansys STK interoperability, enables
simulation of all orbital parameters, high-velocity satellites,
high-altitude platforms, and long-distance links.
For DVB-S2X, SystemVue links with Keysight Signal Studio and
vector signal analysis (VSA) software tools enabling designers to
create a complete digital twin for satellite digital video
broadcast. The integrated solution features a new model for Satcom
channel modeling, a user-friendly graphical interface that
supports parameter configuration and intuitive navigation, VSA Flex
Frame presets designed explicitly for DVB-S2/S2X that speed signal
analysis, and DVB-S2X source and receiver supporting low
signal-to-noise and bit error rate. No scripting is required to
integrate the SystemVue design environment with signal generation
and analysis tools in a unified simulation and testing
ecosystem.
For phased array, SystemVue allows fast and easy design capture
with efficient simulation of complex systems containing hundreds or
thousands of RF elements and paths. SystemVue simulates active
impedance correlated against Keysight and third-party finite
element method (FEM) simulators. Active impedance simulation is
enhanced by including X-parameters with load-pull data, which
increases the modeling accuracy of the interaction between the
power amplifiers and the active array impedance. Load pull modeling
creates the most accurate phased array digital twin, with hardware
verified by Keysight instrumentation. SystemVue has also added a
new automated MDIF import capability, facilitating the consumption,
manipulation, interpolation, and slicing of data such as
S-parameters or other model files.
SystemVue’s powerful phased array simulation and visualization
capabilities provide accurate analysis of beam directivity pattern
and array configuration. Earlier insights into key beam forming
metrics for optimization and decision-making saves cost by reducing
expensive testing in anechoic chambers. Designers can also confirm
array performance through SystemVue integration with Ansys STK for
scenarios and Keysight EXata for network simulation.
Niels Faché, Vice President and General Manager, Keysight
EDA, said: “Domain context matters as design engineers strive
to meet rising complexity challenges and boost their productivity.
The breadth of improvements we’ve packed into Keysight EDA 2024 is
aimed squarely at our customers’ major pain points—faster
time-to-market, first pass success, automated, integrated, and open
workflows, and high speed and high frequency performance. We’ve
invested heavily in software R&D to create whole product
solutions spanning design, emulation, and test disciplines, and
incorporating our deep workflow know-how into the early stages of
product development. It’s not just plain vanilla shift left, but
rather shift left powered by measurement science and application
domain expertise that customers count on Keysight EDA to
deliver.”
More Information: October 10 Product Launch Event
Keysight EDA 2024 also offers new capabilities for high-speed
digital design standards compliance and signoff as well as a host
of new device modeling product updates for accurate
characterization of semiconductor devices. To learn more about
these new products as well as the capabilities covered here, please
attend the launch event on October 10. For more information and to
register for the event, visit
https://www.keysight.com/find/eda2024launch.
About Keysight Technologies
At Keysight (NYSE: KEYS), we inspire and empower innovators to
bring world-changing technologies to life. As an S&P 500
company, we’re delivering market-leading design, emulation, and
test solutions to help engineers develop and deploy faster, with
less risk, throughout the entire product lifecycle. We’re a global
innovation partner enabling customers in communications, industrial
automation, aerospace and defense, automotive, semiconductor, and
general electronics markets to accelerate innovation to connect and
secure the world. Learn more at Keysight Newsroom and
www.keysight.com.
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