Wireless testing vendor Keysight Technologies has launched its Advanced Design System (ADS) software.
ADS 2015 features silicon RFIC interoperability with Cadence’s Virtuoso and GoldenGate-in-ADS to increase design efficiency.
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Silicon RFIC interoperability in ADS enables users to edit and simulate schematic designs created in either Virtuoso or ADS. Users can open a Virtuoso IC layout cell view in ADS, instantiate the cell within a package or module, and then run an electromagnetic simulation on the complete design to validate its overall system performance.
Keysight in a statement said that ADS-Virtuoso interoperability works on top of a baseline Virtuoso process development kit (PDK). ADS 2015 is backed by PDK support from several RF Silicon foundries. Interoperability-enabled PDKs are available from TSMC, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, TowerJazz, IBM, and IHP, and have been validated by customers as part of Keysight’s alpha program.
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