Agilent Technologies’ SystemVue Smashes Validation Barriers for Emerging Wireless Circuit Designs
-- New Technologies Connect System Architects, Enterprise System-on-Chip Designers
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 28, 2011 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the release of SystemVue 2011.03, a leading system-level communications design environment. With this release, SystemVue now
enables wireless system architects and system-on-chip designers to validate multiband, high-transistor-count
wireless IC designs accurately against the latest communications standards. Until now, wireless
communications architects have lacked the accurate commercial modeling formats needed to qualify the system-level
performance of their RF/analog and mixed-signal CMOS transceiver designs. Agilent’s GoldenGate and SystemVue
environments now connect in two ways to help system-on-chip designers meet the challenging requirement of ETSI
LTE/LTE-A and other emerging wireless standards, via an exclusive, fast circuit envelope (FCE) model or direct
envelope-level cosimulation.
The new FCE models execute 1,000 to 100,000 times faster than the original RFIC physical designs, with virtually
no loss in accuracy at the system level. Unlike indirect commercial modeling approaches, the new FCE models can
account for nonlinear memory effects and are generated from the RFIC design itself, with little human intervention
or coding. They can also account for frequency- and power-dependence, frequency translation, multiple ports and
internal nodes, and can be exported at various settings of control states, bias voltages, process corners,
temperatures and impedance loading.
The new FCE models run natively in SystemVue, as part of the
W1719 RF System Design
Kit. For challenges that require dynamic behaviors and the highest possible analog accuracy at the system
level, a direct cosimulation mode is also available.
“Agilent’s new modeling technology breaks down design flow barriers for enterprise-level wireless IC designers,”
said Paul Colestock, product manager for Agilent’s GoldenGate products. “With no programming, you can quickly
verify a whole functional chain against instrument-grade reference IP using calibrated, bottom-up models that come
out of your existing design flow.”
SystemVue 2011.03 also unveils new wireless capabilities for Spectrasys, the spectral domain simulator at the
heart of SystemVue’s
RF System Architect
personality. “Wireless architects love the natural use model of Spectrasys and asked that we expand it to
address challenging, modern transceiver designs,” said Frank Ditore, product manager for Agilent’s SystemVue
products. “With the new wireless capabilities in SystemVue, our enterprise customers can now achieve superior
partitioning and verification by applying Spectrasys to multiband architectures, zero IF, MIMO, phase noise, and
even X-parameters™ from other tools, and bringing those RF effects up to the system level.” Support for
Wideband and Emerging Communications Standards SystemVue 2011.03 introduces several baseband verification
libraries for algorithm developers, which integrate naturally into the wireless IC verification flow enabled by
Agilent GoldenGate. They include:
U.S. Pricing and Availability Agilent’s SystemVue 2011.03 is available for download at www.agilent.com/find/eesof-systemvue. Pricing for the SystemVue environment starts at approximately $17,000. A
free 30-day evaluation is available at
www.agilent.com/find/eesof-systemvue-evaluation.
More information on SystemVue Update 3 is available at
www.agilent.com/find/eesof-systemvue2011_03. A photo of SystemVue with the new modules is available at
www.agilent.com/find/SystemVue2011_03_images.
About Agilent EEsof EDA Software Agilent EEsof EDA is the
leading supplier of electronic design automation software for microwave, RF, high-frequency, high-speed digital,
RF system, electronic system level, circuit, 3-D electromagnetic, physical design and device-modeling
applications. More information is available at
www.agilent.com/find/eesof.
About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world’s premier
measurement company and a technology leader in chemical analysis, life sciences, electronics and communications.
The company’s 18,500 employees serve customers in more than 100 countries. Agilent had net revenues of $5.4
billion in fiscal 2010. Information about Agilent is available at www.agilent.com.
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Posted 5/2/2011
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