Signal Integrity Verification Toolkit for Advanced Design System (ADS) EDA Platform - Agilent

Agilent announced the integrated Verification Toolkit for Signal Integrity Design, for use with Agilent's Advanced Design System (ADS) EDA software platform. ADS is the first and only EDA tool in the industry that provides diagnostic jitter analysis tools integrated into a high-speed channel design flow.

The Signal Integrity Verification Toolkit  contains patented technology used in Agilent's real-time sampling oscilloscopes for accurate jitter characterization. The toolkit identifies and analyzes sources of performance-degrading jitter in multi-Gigabit communication link designs. It helps designers find and remove the causes of jitter before hardware prototyping begins, eliminating costly redesign later in the development cycle.

Joe Civello, Agilent's EEsof EDA division, said:

The recent signal integrity breakthroughs we've made have expanded our RF and microwave EDA technologies into high-speed digital design…

For the first time, designers of high data-rate interconnects and serial data links can perform a comprehensive jitter budget analysis to find and correct sources of jitter as well as to quickly and accurately predict Bit Error Ratio performance — all before committing the design to fabrication and production…

This new ADS provides significant enhancements to its SERDES (serializer-deserializer) capability. The new SERDES library components available with ADS includes 8B10B encoders/decoders; 64B66B encoders and decoders with and without scrambling; non-adaptive and adaptive feed forward and decision feedback equalizers, using a wide variety of tap optimization algorithms; and a new digital signal source capable of producing a de-emphasis waveform with random and periodic jitter modulation and transition wave shaping.

The ADS offers a complete set of front-to-back simulation and layout tools as well as instrument links for RF and microwave IC design in a single, integrated design flow. The EDA software platform that can simulate a serial link consisting of models for frequency-domain interconnect, time-domain driver/receiver, physical layout, SERDES, compiled and scripted MATLAB-based functions, System-C, Verilog-A, HDL, and C++.

The Signal Integrity Verification Toolkit is available now and is included with the ADS Signal Integrity Designer Pro and Premier Suites. Prices start at $7,000.

More info: Agilent Signal Integrity Verification Toolkit