Keysight Introduces Next-Generation Radio Frequency Circuit Simulator for RFIC Chip Designers
April 18 2024 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
- Advanced, fully interoperable circuit simulation environment
for radio frequency integrated circuit designers working in Cadence
Virtuoso, Synopsys Custom Compiler, and Keysight ADS platforms
- New product architecture enables tighter co-design of circuit,
electromagnetic, and electrothermal simulations across
platforms
- Flexible licensing model adapts to user needs for different
solvers
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) introduces RFPro
Circuit, a next-generation radio frequency (RF) simulation tool
targeting the complex, multi-physics requirements of today’s RF
integrated circuit (RFIC) designers. Wireless, automotive, and
satellite designers can now deliver robust designs that overcome
performance challenges in dense 3D packaging, taking advantage of
interoperability and automation to form complex workflows.
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Keysight’s new W5600E RFPro Circuit
provides advanced, multi-physics simulation support for today’s
RFIC designers working in Cadence Virtuoso and Synopsys Custom
Compiler. (Photo: Business Wire)
Keysight’s W5600E RFPro Circuit features a new modular
architecture that ensures a consistent, streamlined environment for
multi-physics co-design across Cadence, Synopsys, and Keysight
electronic design automation (EDA) platforms. Optional
electromagnetic (EM) and electro-thermal simulators also plug into
this new environment, enabling faster design and troubleshooting of
wireless RFICs.
Typically, RFIC designers perform sequential, single-domain
verifications using expert tools, but have a difficult time
identifying and troubleshooting multi-domain design issues until
the end of the design process. Designers are often required to
become domain experts, shouldering the overhead of setup and
database manipulations for each tool. With the new RFPro Circuit
simulator, these tools are more tightly integrated into highly
automated and efficient workflows.
In addition to EM and electro-thermal simulators, Keysight
provides RF-aware analyses for stability, system-level modulation
and waveforms, and simulator settings. For example, designers can
optimize a sophisticated 5G-Advanced power amplifier for error
vector magnitude (EVM) while loaded with EM package parasitics. As
3D designs become denser and move into new millimeter wave
frequencies, Keysight now offers a path to efficient design flows
that are not only robust, but reliable enough to be used for
training tomorrow’s artificial intelligence and machine learning
automation in leading-edge microwave applications.
RFPro Circuit features include:
- Standard DC, AC, S-parameter, Harmonic Balance Transient, and
Envelope Transient simulation modes
- High accuracy modulation analysis; Winslow stability analysis;
optimization; and faster one-time netlist parsing
- Compatibility with Keysight’s extensive catalog of silicon and
III-V compound semiconductor foundry process development kits
(PDK). Advanced support for III-V processes, mixed hierarchies for
3D heterogeneous integration and packaging, and validation against
system-level modulation.
Beyond RFPro Circuit’s numerous technical improvements, Keysight
offers a flexible licensing model that gives RFIC designers greater
simulation freedom and instant access to the latest features, in
order to adapt to changing workflows on a daily basis. RFPro
Circuit is available for immediate download for the Cadence
Virtuoso and Synopsys Custom Compiler environments. Availability
for the Keysight ADS environment is expected in late 2024.
Joe Civello, Director of RF/uW Products, Keysight EDA,
said, “Keysight has a long and successful history providing
industry-leading circuit simulation for RFIC and module designers.
On top of speed and robustness, we’ve built RFPro Circuit to be the
EDA industry’s most designer centric RFIC simulation tool, striving
for flexibility, application orientation, and context awareness
between multi-physics, high-performance compute, and integration
into the major vendor workflows. Designers using RFPro Circuit can
accelerate their engineering cycles and shift left more of their
verification effort from physical into virtual prototyping where
it’s easier and less costly to fix problems.”
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About Keysight Technologies
At Keysight (NYSE: KEYS), we inspire and empower innovators to
bring world-changing technologies to life. As an S&P 500
company, we’re delivering market-leading design, emulation, and
test solutions to help engineers develop and deploy faster, with
less risk, throughout the entire product lifecycle. We’re a global
innovation partner enabling customers in communications, industrial
automation, aerospace and defense, automotive, semiconductor, and
general electronics markets to accelerate innovation to connect and
secure the world. Learn more at Keysight Newsroom and
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