RF Board Design Flow - Complete, Fast, and Accurate

RF Board Designer - complete front-to-back or integrated in your enterprise RF-PCB design flow

Agilent EEsof EDA is the global leader in high-frequency design backed up by 60 years of in-house RF-microwave instrumentation design experience. The Advanced Design System (ADS) RF Board Designer offers you the most robust RF PCB design platform in the industry, which also happens to be the most frequently used RF PCB platform. Thousands of user’s world wide – from start-ups to large enterprises including Agilent Technologies - rely on the ADS RF Board Designer as their premier RF PCB front-to-back design platform.

If you have a PCB design flow based on Mentor, Zuken or Cadence products, the ADS RF Board Designer integrates seamlessly to remove the boundaries to the RF design domain, so your product designers can include RF capability into your design flow.

Designing beyond the RF printed circuit board

The ADS RF Board Designer is part of Agilent’s Advanced Design System, which enables you to simulate the entire communication signal path from input bits to output bits. Whenever you have a need to design a MMIC/hybrid, SIP or Module, the Advanced Design System offers you a scalable solution from its complete range of RF-mixed signal simulation technologies accessible from a single integrated environment.

Your investment and design flow expertise are protected as you expand your product portfolio beyond RF PCB.

Advanced Design System (ADS) addresses the need for a single integrated environment capable of designing multiple technologies.

The Advanced Design System to lower your cost

ADS gives you greater flexibility to scale your design system according to your current design needs with time-based and limited-term packages. You can add simulators and model libraries as you require them. This lowers your Total Cost of Ownership and optimizes your cash flow and profit.

Unique Value to Your RF Board Design Success

Agilent EEsof EDA provides unique value to your RF Board design success, including:

• Increased RF and Wireless Functionality
• Reduced Design Spins
• Design for Manufacturing (DFM)

Successful RF Board Design Flows

The keys to success in creating an efficient, powerful RF Board design flow are:

• Libraries of models to support different design types and applications. The need for modeling is common in board design process. Behavioral, parametric models are needed for initial system work. At circuit and layout levels, the models could be extracted from datasheets, hardware measurements or simulation.
• Vendor supplied libraries to enable design and simulation for purchased components are critical.
• Linear, non-linear, electromagnetic, and (RF) system simulation/co-simulation to support system and component analyses throughout the design process.
• Layout and Layout tools to carry designs from schematic into manufacturing. The layout and fabrication of the board is critical since this stage is where proximity effects and complexity of board fabrication is the highest. Analytical and constraint-driven tools for verification of layout and especially EM simulation are critical at this stage.
• Integration of tools minimizing design errors due to data transfers among unrelated tools.
• Links to Backend Frameworks are also essential for board designs that include digital and logic.
• Verification of schematic and layout designs and manufactured board using consistent measurements in simulation and hardware on the bench.