Integration of 3D Simulator Electromagnetic Design System (EMDS) into Advanced Design System (ADS) EDA Software - Agilent

Agilent announced the integration of its full-wave 3D simulator Electromagnetic Design System (EMDS) into the Agilent's Advanced Design System (ADS) EDA software platform. Agilent's Advanced Design System offers a complete set simulation and layout tools and instrument links for RF and microwave IC design in an integrated design flow. The integration speeds up the design and verification process by reducing the steps for accurate design of HF RF or microwave modules and planar antennas.

Integration of Agilent’s 3D simulator Electromagnetic Design System allows designers to make informed design decisions and adjustments before physical prototyping begins. This information can eliminate costly design iterations, and significantly reduce product-development time.

Bart Van Hecke, Agilent's EEsof EDA division, said:

Designers lose a lot of time translating a layout structure into another drawing environment, redefining the layer stacks and dielectric properties, assigning port numbers and reconnecting an S-parameter black box for co-simulation with active elements…

Integrating our full-wave 3D EM simulator with the ADS circuit and system design environment eliminates the need for layout translation. It provides a 3D EM layout previewer that allows designers to check for drawing parameterization or errors before launching full-wave 3D EM simulations or optimization from the ADS circuit design environment…

The advantages of the integration of Electromagnetic Design System to Agilent’s ADS can be immediately shown when simulating circuits built with non-homogenous planar dielectrics, such as:

• Cavities under spiral inductors
• DRO (dielectric resonator oscillator)
• Multi-chip modules and their wire bonds to substrates
• PIFA (Printed Inverted F Antenna) antennas with their matching circuit elements in cell phones
• Circuits mounted in QFN (Quad Flat No Lead) packages

The EMDS for Agilent's Advanced Design System EDA software platform, can also be used stand alone as a full-wave 3D EM software platform, with its own complete 3D drawing and visualization environment for non-planar structures such as connectors, packages, machined parts and antennas.

The Agilent EMDS-for-ADS is available with prices approximately $18,000.

Here you can request an evaluation of Agilent's EMDS-for-ADS here. Only one evaluation Codeword can be obtained per request.