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The Design Environment provides the integration of all the Advanced Design System design technologies under one user interface. Design entry of system, RF circuit, and DSP designs is provided through a schematic page that offers both pull-down menus and a command toolbar, either of which may be customized. Components can be accessed through logically organized palettes, as well as textual library lists or a library browser dialog. The Library Browser allows you to create your own custom library structure by Cut/Copy/Paste/Drag & Drop-ing your components from either your custom library or the supplied vendor parts libraries. Hide or delete the components you don't use. One or more simulations may be specified, controlled, and launched directly from the schematic. Designs may be used as subnetworks in other designs linked through the schematic page; parameters can be passed to such subnetworks, which then serve as custom models. Project organization for all design files, including data files, subnetworks, custom artwork, and user settings, is automatically provided by the Design Environment. Complex hierarchical designs are easily displayed with the Design Hierarchy Viewer. All of these files are ASCII text files available in system default or user-specified directories. Project files can contain current revisions of a design, as well as older iterations, and alternate design approaches. Because all networks of a project are maintained together, designs or portions of designs may be re-used without the need to copy them first. The user interface has the look and feel of currently popular PC office tools. Toolbars, component palettes, icons, and keyboard shortcuts all provide easy access to frequently used features. System and circuit elements can be selected from palettes and placed with the mouse; they are inserted along with their parameters onto the page, ready for connection with standard wiring or transmission lines. Windows standard Cut, Copy, and Paste commands are fully supported in enhanced metafile (EMF) format, which allows you to copy and paste data into PC applications. Windows standard scrolling is controlled with Page Up/Down & arrows keys, or by mouse control on-screen using scroll bars. Component parameters and types can be edited on-screen. For example, a resistor can be changed to a capacitor simply by typing in the new name. This eliminates the need for deletion and rewiring. A full HTML-based on-line help facility that includes context-sensitive command help, on-line documentation, application examples and a fast comprehensive search engine is provided via your favorite browser. Over 30 TrueType fonts are available in the Design Environment and Data Display providing maximum legibility and allowing the flexibility to create customized, professional-looking design documentation. Circuit designs composed of various components may be embedded into system simulations. Planar electromagnetic analysis may also be performed on part or all of a circuit, and the data fed into further circuit simulations. (EM simulation may be performed without need of a file translation or explicit meshing). Designs may be created and edited from both the schematic and the layout, allowing you to work in either the electrical or physical representation, whichever better suits a given design. Links to many test instruments make it possible to import and export data to compare actual and simulated performance. For details, click on the following link: The Application Extension Language (AEL) is a C-like language that makes it possible to customize the ADS working environment. Because the ADS user interface is written in AEL, customizations can interact extensively with the system. AEL can be used to generate custom libraries and layout routines, querying the database for design information, setting system preferences and options, and overriding higher-level default configurations with those for a specific project or user.
Smart Simulation Wizard is an application-focused tool. This wizard-driven tool makes ADS circuit simulation extremely simple and fast. It helps you create circuit schematics, setup and run simulations, and easily view your results. No manual setup of simulations or ports is required. Smart Simulation Wizard saves time by automatically generating the appropriate schematic configuration, and a set of common simulations designed for your specific application. Once the simulations are complete, the data display window automatically opens, and displays all the simulation results in an easily customized format. For an online demo showing the Smart Simulation Wizard in operation, click on the following link: Online Demo: Smart Simulation Wizard
The ADS Electronic Notebook is a new and powerful feature that allows you to easily create organized, professional looking, HTML documents incorporating your project designs and results. This reduces documentation time and allows you to focus your efforts on the design itself. Electronic Notebook also provides a common platform for the distribution of Design IP. The operations and features provided within the notebook allow for:
For details, click on the following link: Agilent Technologies Connected SolutionsConnections between Agilent Technologies instruments and Advanced Design System greatly extend the capabilities both of the instruments and of ADS. Agilent Technologies connected solutions integrate Advanced Design System and Agilent instrumentation to allow the sharing of signals, measurements, algorithms, and data in both directions between the two domains. Connected Solutions can be used to create simulation models from measurements of existing components. Connected solutions can also determine if a component or sub-system will work within the system as a whole, without having to build the whole system. Connected Solutions can also be used to create signals for device testing that include the actual signal impairments that will be present when the system is built. For complete information on Agilent Technologies Connected Solutions, click on the following link: Instrument and Software Connections and File I/OConnections between ADS and other Agilent Technologies instruments and software include the following:
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Training ClassesAdvanced Design System FundamentalsThis is a medium-paced three-day detailed introduction to the application of Advanced Design System (ADS) for communication systems and circuit designs. This course instructs designers on schematic capture, the proper application of a wide variety of simulators, and the display and manipulation of results. After a brief study of ADS basic operation, students design and test amplifier and filter circuits that are then placed in a down-converting receiver system for final simulation. Real-world examples are used at all times so that designers can return to their jobs ready to apply ADS effectively to their design challenges. For detailed course descriptions and class schedules worldwide, click on the following link: Advanced Topics in Circuit DesignThis is a medium-paced two-day course that shows some of the more expert features of Agilent EEsof EDA's Advanced Design System. This course instructs designers on the proper application of advanced simulation methods found in ADS, use of measured data in ADS simulations, and the modeling of devices used in common design schematics. Some of the advanced simulation methods used in the course are transient-assisted harmonic balance, yield optimization, oscillator analysis, design of experiments (DOE), and sensitivity analysis. Very realistic circuits are used in this course, such as those found in cellular phones or radio receiver sections. At the end of this course, the designer should be very comfortable with using ADS and understand how to implement the more advanced simulation methods on their own designs. For detailed course descriptions and class schedules worldwide, click on the following link:
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