About Agilent EEsof EDA

Agilent EEsof EDA is the leading supplier of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software for high-frequency system, circuit, and modeling applications. These applications include signal integrity as well as RF and microwave amplifier, mixer and filter design for commercial wireless, aerospace and defense markets.

Agilent EEsof EDA products include Advanced Design System RF EDA software, RF Design Environment, IC-CAP device modeling software and systems, and, most recently, GENESYS and SystemVue from Eagleware-Elanix, the industry leader in ease-of-use and RF synthesis and now part of Agilent EEsof EDA.

Agilent EEsof EDA has a twenty-year history of technical innovation, customer support, training, and industry leadership. Sales and support offices worldwide provide responsive, local-language assistance in all aspects of sales, training, and technical support.

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History

Agilent EEsof EDA has led the development of high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA) software for more than twenty years. The business originated in a need that Hewlett-Packard had to improve the design process for its RF and microwave instruments.

In early 1984, the now-legendary HP 8510 Network Analyzer was introduced, and several key designers from the HP 8510 team were chosen to guide the development of software for the emerging microwave and RF design marketplace.

The goal was to integrate simulation, data display, and layout tools in a way that mirrored the way engineers really worked. The result was the HP Microwave Design System (MDS), released June 1988.

In 1993, Hewlett-Packard acquired EEsof, Inc., in Westlake Village, California, a recognized leader in EDA software on the PC platform. Beginning with the Touchstone linear simulator in 1983 and adding Libra, OmniSys, and Academy (for layout), EEsof had focused on the rapidly expanding personal computer (PC) platform and on making EDA tools available to every RF and microwave engineer.

It was a natural joining of strengths for the two leading companies in high-frequency EDA, and the many customer benefits of this alliance continue today - in simulation technology, power, speed, innovation, ease of design, and worldwide customer support.

Technical Innovation

Agilent EEsof EDA leads in the development of powerful, innovative, easy-to-use high-frequency electrical design automation software - and has done so for more than twenty years.

Harmonic Balance, Circuit Envelope, and Krylov simulations, RF/Analog/DSP co-simulation, behavioral models - all of these and many other major innovations were pioneered in Agilent EEsof EDA software.

EEsof products such as Touchstone, Libra, and OmniSys brought comparable power and ease of use to the PC platform.

Agilent EEsof Advanced Design System (ADS) supports system and RF design engineers developing all types of RF designs from simple to the most complex, from discrete RF/microwave modules to integrated MMICs for communications and aerospace/defense applications.

ADS 2005A: Faster, Smarter, Stronger Simulation Technologies . . .

ADS 2005A provides circuit and EM simulation technology innovations that offer better performance in capacity, accuracy, speed and convergence. This release solves previously unsolvable problems without compromising accuracy or requiring designs to be simplified.

• Advanced Design System 2005A - What's New

Customer Relationships

Agilent EEsof EDA has built upon the forty-year tradition of Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies to offer customer support that is second to none.

Agilent EEsof EDA support centers in the United States, Europe, and the Far East offer local-language, same-time-zone technical support by telephone, worldwide.

Technical support is also available by FAX and e-mail and on the world wide web, through searchable online databases of known problems and workarounds, applications examples, and product documentation.

Agilent EEsof EDA Technical Support

Applications help is built into Advanced Design System by means of an Examples directory that contains more than 200 working examples of circuit and system designs. Tutorial examples are also included.

Agilent EEsof EDA Applications

Training classes covering both design topics and use of the software are conducted in dedicated Agilent EEsof EDA classrooms worldwide, onsite, and by means of the world wide web.

Agilent EEsof has been training engineers for many years and has perfected the process. A combination of lectures and labs provides hands-on practical experience in an accelerated learning environment.

Agilent EEsof EDA Customer Education

Locations

Agilent EEsof EDA has four main facilities worldwide for research, software design, development, and testing, customer support, marketing, sales, manufacturing and distribution.

In Santa Rosa, California, USA, Agilent EEsof EDA shares an attractive 195-acre site about 60 miles (95 km) north of San Francisco with several key Agilent Technologies high-frequency instrument and component design and manufacturing operations.

This same-site intimacy among designers of high-frequency measurement products, high-frequency semiconductor design and manufacturing, and software engineers is unique in the EDA industry.

In Westlake Village, California, USA, Agilent EEsof EDA continues the strong tradition of user-interface and circuit and simulation advances that were begun by EEsof, Inc. Located in Southern California, Westlake Village is about 45 miles (70 km) northwest of Los Angeles.

In Ghent, Belgium Agilent EEsof EDA has a staff of software development engineers extending the Momentum Planar EM solver and related products and marketing and technical support staff supporting Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and South Africa.

In Singapore, Agilent EEsof EDA engineers at the Agilent Technologies Singapore Microelectronics Modeling Center work closely with customers to provide accurate characterization and continually updated libraries of active and passive devices.

Agilent Technologies is the world's premier measurement company. Agilent provides core electronic and bio-analytical measurement tools to advance the electronics, communications, life science research, environmental and petrochemical industries.

About two-thirds of Agilent's revenue was generated from outside of the United States in fiscal 2005. With 21,000 employees, our global presence offers a competitive advantage. Agilent's manufacturing, R&D, sales and support capabilities around the world give customers the flexibility they need in today's competitive environment.

Agilent has facilities in about 30 countries and develops products at manufacturing sites in the U.S., China, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and the U.K. Agilent Labs has its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, with additional sites in South Queensferry, Scotland and Beijing, China.

Agilent's pioneering spirit was kindled more than 60 years ago, when two engineers - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard - invented the future in their garage. In 1999, Agilent was spun off from Hewlett-Packard Company, and we have continued to support the values so important to the two visionary founders. We have also continued to innovate in territory that matters, blazing trails in the fields that are shaping the modern world.

While, physically, we have outgrown HP's garage, we continue to live the values handed down from Bill and Dave: uncompromising integrity; trust, respect and teamwork; and innovation that makes a difference.

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