Integrated software solution
ensures design performance, improves accuracy and speeds time-to-market for
end-to-end 5G workflows
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:
KEYS), a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers
and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world,
announced PathWave Design 2021,
an open, scalable and predictable 5G and mmWave software solution. It enables
design and validation engineers to accelerate delivery of chip, board and
system products by integrating device, circuit and system design with improved
performance and accuracy.
The 5G market is rapidly gaining broader acceptance. Network
operators are transitioning from 4G and rolling out commercial 5G around the
world. Equipment manufacturers and suppliers need to optimize performance, cost
(yield), and time-to-market in their designs to be selected as vendor of choice
for mainstream 5G deployments. However, higher frequencies coupled with the
increasing design integration and complexity of 5G, require a unified,
end-to-end approach to eliminate late stage design iterations and ensure first
pass success.
“Current design methodologies for
4G and earlier standards use approximate figures of merit to get designs to
market quickly,” said Tom Lillig, general manager of PathWave Software
Solutions at Keysight Technologies. “This legacy approach is insufficient for
modern designs, which increase integration requirements due to 5G broadband
modulation schemes. The design techniques developed with previous
generations of designs simply aren’t sufficient to meet the 5G standards.”
Implements Best Practices in Radio
Frequency (RF) and Microwave Workflows :
PathWave 5G addresses high
frequency and complexity with new capabilities across all design phases
including simulation to validation, as well as test and manufacturing.
Engineers can eliminate months from product schedules by implementing best
practices in their radio frequency/microwave (RF/MW) workflows such as:
· Increasing
the speed and reducing the complexity of chip level analysis and verification
with integrated EM simulation.
·
Predicting performance at the circuit and system
levels using common modulated signals and accurate RF system models.
·
Scaling the end-to-end ecosystem from device to circuit
to test and manufacturing with model-driven engineering.
· Accelerating
the verification process by running simulations in parallel in the
high-performance cloud computing.
Keysight’s PathWave Design 2021 software suite enables:
·
Power amplifier designers using RF Gallium Nitride (GaN) superior power, size
and efficiency advantages to model trapping and thermal effects.
·
Front-end module and RF transceiver designers to
assemble technologies to model packaging and coupling effects quickly and
efficiently.
·
System integrators to predict system performance with
RF circuits, antennas and modulated signals.
·
System architects to accurately perform RF modeling
with a combined platform for digital, RF and antenna system simulation.
·
Component manufacturers to validate the performance of
their designs in target system architectures.
·
Phased array designers to conduct fast, accurate
beamforming simulations with realistic RF impairment modeling.
Keysight’s PathWave Design
software suite includes: PathWave
Advanced Design System (ADS), PathWave RFIC Design (GoldenGate), PathWave
System Design (SystemVue), PathWave EM Design (EMPro) and PathWave
Device Modeling (IC-CAP), which deliver the key capabilities needed to
address 5G challenges, including radio frequency/microwave (RF/MW) simulation
and verification; electronic system-level (ESL) simulation; and device modeling
to improve design speed, accuracy and robustness.
Additional Information
More
information on PathWave Design 2021 is available at : http://www.keysight.com/find/pathwave-design2021-backgrounder