Agilent Announces 10x Faster Planar 3D EM Simulation

By DE Editors

Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)  announced a 10x speedup of its planar 3D electromagnetic (EM) simulator, which is part of the Update 1 release of its Advanced Design System (ADS) 2008 EDA software platform.

The speed improvement helps RFIC, RF module and high-speed gigabit serial-link designers take advantage of EM simulation for faster, more accurate design and signal integrity verification.

Momentum is the planar 3D electromagnetic simulator in ADS 2008. Enhancements to its speed and capacity for analyzing large multigigabit serial-link signal integrity, RFIC and RF module design include a fast and memory-efficient solver based on the NlogN matrix compression techniques; multicore computer use through parallelizing the solve process across all PC-processor cores;  distributed simulation over networked computer clusters to perform multipoint EM simulation in parallel; and a mesher that preprocesses layouts imported from other systems to guarantee mesh-related simulation accuracy.

Agilent’s ADS electronic design automation platform offers complete design integration to designers of consumer and commercial wireless electronic products such as mobile phones, wireless networking, GPS; radar and satellite communications systems, and high-speed digital serial links.

For more information about ADS 2008 Update 1,  which is expected to be available for download in July 2008 starting at $10,000, go to Agilent Technologies Inc.,  where you can also request a demo.

Sources:  Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.