Wireless testing vendor Keysight Technologies has released GoldenGate software, a simulation, analysis and verification solution for large-scale RFIC circuit design.
GoldenGate 2015.01 offers enhanced capabilities designed to improve productivity and efficiency for silicon RFIC designers, said Keysight.
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Advanced features of GoldenGate 2015.01 include Fast Envelope 3 support for envelope tracking modulation applications and support for multiple, non-harmonically-related frequency dividers, said the company.
Keysight said support for the frequency dividers enables designers to accurately predict receiver crosstalk, which is common in LTE-A Carrier Aggregation simulation. The other important feature of GoldenGate 2015.01 is a new multi-threaded sparse matrix solver that enables 10 to 50 percent faster transient simulations.
Crystal oscillator startup performance is five times faster, with a settled solution time of less than 20 periods versus greater than 10,000 for a full transient analysis.
The Keysight software offers improved Envelope Transient Noise analysis efficiency, up to a 1.5 times speed-up in envelope tracking noise.
This apart, engineers can benefit from improved multi-threading and refactoring for harmonic balance noise, up to a 2.5 times speedup.
Improved oscillator analysis performance, up to four times faster on the ring oscillator plus a divide by 32 circuit is yet another benefit.
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