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Integrated software solution ensures design performance, improves accuracy and speeds time-to-market for end-to-end 5G workflows

Keysight Technologies Accelerates 5G Design, Simulation and Verification Workflows with PathWave Design 2021 Software Suite - RF Cafe

Keysight Technologies Accelerates 5G Design, Simulation and Verification Workflows with PathWave Design 2021 Software Suite

Santa Rosa, California, July 20, 2020 - Keysight Technologies, Inc., 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

Images of PathWave Design 2021 are available at http://www.keysight.com/find/pathwave-design2021-images

 

Complimentary 90-Day Software Trials

Keysight is offering the company's popular software products free of charge for 90 days. Engineers working on design and simulation or managing multiple instruments and test stations remotely, can leverage Keysight's PC-based software to remain productive. These 90-day software trials also provide complimentary access to KeysightCare Software Support for the duration of the trials featuring live interaction with a technical expert within 4 hours of contacting Keysight.

Eligible Software Includes the Following Keysight Solutions:

  • PathWave Signal Generation: Signal creation tools that reduce the time needed on signal simulation
  • PathWave Vector Signal Analysis: Software that runs remotely to access the full capabilities of signal measurement hardware, from anywhere
  • PathWave BenchVue: PC software for simultaneous instrument control and simplified automation for a wide range of instruments
  • PathWave Test Automation: Test sequencer and automation software for data management and test plan development
  • PathWave FPGA: Real-time FPGA functionality to customize and get more performance from instruments
  • PathWave System Design (SystemVue): Multi-domain modeling environment that accelerates design, verification, and test from anywhere
  • Infiniium Offline: Uses PC to capture waveforms, save to a file and recall data with over 60 built-in one-click measurements
  • Flex Digital Communication Analyser (DCA): Uses a PC to see a visual output of a test, controlling DCA or DCA-X oscilloscopes with Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments (SCPI), from anywhere

Additional information about 90-day software trials is available.

 

About Keysight Technologies

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) is a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Keysight's solutions optimize networks and bring electronic products to market faster and at a lower cost with offerings from design simulation, to prototype validation, to manufacturing test, to optimization in networks and cloud environments. Customers span the worldwide communications ecosystem, aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, semiconductor and general electronics end markets. Keysight generated revenues of $4.3B in fiscal year 2019. More information is available at www.keysight.com.

Contact

Geri Lynne LaCombe

Americas/Europe

Phone: +1 303 662 4748

E-Mail: geri_lacombe@keysight.com

Magda Antone

Europe

+34 (93) 3434612

press.emea@keysight.com

Connie Wong

Asia

+852 3197-7818

connie-ky_wong@keysight.com

 

 

Posted July 23, 2020