Genesys Products - Signal Control Synthesis Module

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Genesys Signal Control Synthesis saves time by creating a variety of lumped and distributed physical structures that route the flow of power through an RF network. With just a few mouse clicks, RF circuit and system designers synthesize lumped and distributed topologies for couplers, splitters, baluns, and attenuators throughout the wireless, satcomm, and aerospace/defense frequency ranges.

Productivity for RF Component designers

RF component designers use Signal Control Synthesis to accelerate the design of the system building blocks used in a variety of industries – aerospace defense, wireless, satellite communications, and more. The structures created with Signal Control Synthesis can be used for telemetry, radios, base stations, microwave hybrids, SIPs, measurement applications, systems integration, and much more.

Signal Control Synthesis creates these components

• Splitters
• 0 deg – Wilkinson, Transformer, Resistive
• 90 deg – Branch Line, lumped, Lange coupler, Backward wave, Broadside Coupled Lines
• 180 deg – Race, Transformer
• Directional Couplers – Branch Line, Lange, Backward Wave (7 types), Broadside Coupled Lines
• Balun – Coupled Line, Transformer, Lumped, Half Wave, Quarter Wave Coax
• Attenuator – Resisitive, Resistive Film

Because Signal Control Synthesis is tightly integrated within the Genesys environment (figure 1), you also have access to a full RF environment for optimization, yield, SMT parts libraries, Layout, as well as integration with nonlinear simulators, planar EM, and system simulation.

High-performance internal architectures

RF circuit designers also benefit from Signal Control Synthesis for doing complex internal architectures, such as quadrature hybrids for balanced power amplifiers, amplifiers with feedforward or Cartesian feedback, leveling loops, image and harmonic cancellation, and other applications that combine sub-blocks within a higher-performance component.

Value for system architects

This convenient productivity tool enables RF system architects and integrators to include the effect of actual RF structures on system level performance, and even perform make vs. buy decisions. In many cases, designers can save manufacturing cost and increase performance by fabricating their own components. Signal Control Synthesis accelerates this decision, as well as the overall system design process, and for this reason has been integrated seamlessly with the system simulator, Spectrasys.

How is Genesys Signal Control Synthesis made available?

• The W1510L Genesys Signal Control Synthesis module can be easily added to any particular Genesys environment or license key that is current on maintenance.
• Signal Control Synthesis is included in the Genesys Designer Pro and Genesys Integrated bundles
• It is also included in the Genesys Synthesis for ADS and RF Architect for ADS bundles
• Signal Control Synthesis was also included in several older Genesys configurations, which you may already own. (W1403, W1404, W1405, W1406, W1412, W1413, W1414). Refer to the Bundlescope for more details.

How Genesys Signal Control Synthesis interacts with other modules

• Genesys Core is the only software requirement for this module.
• Signal Control Synthesis borrows capability from Advanced T/Line Synthesis for converting ideal electrical TLines into microstrip. If you own Advanced T/Line Synthesis, you will also have this capability for circuits outside the synthesis UI.
• This module is an attractive companion to M/Filter and Match Synthesis. Many people who purchase these synthesis modules also purchase an EM simulator, such as Momentum GX, or Empower.

Online Demos and Tutorials

• SIGNAL CONTROL Overview, November 2003

Articles

• Randall Rhea, Software Accelerates Design of Signal Control Devices, Wireless Design and Development, January 2004.