Modulated RF analysis enhanced in simulation software

27th May 2014

Keysight Technologies (formerly Agilent)

Mick Elliott

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The latest version of Agilent Technologies Genesys RF simulation and synthesis software features breakthrough modulated RF analysis as well as enhancements to its custom-filter direct synthesis technology. Genesys 2014 enables designers to simulate digitally modulated RF signals like those found in today’s defence and consumer wireless applications as easily as they do traditional analogue RF signals.

The software delivers breakthrough system budget analysis of these digital modulation metrics for every component in the system block diagram in a single pass. This provides RF designers the ability to immediately identify culprit components causing digital performance failures.

Powering the new software’s accurate digital modulation analysis is a new, embedded numeric dataflow simulator that also enables easy verification against the latest wireless standards for WLAN 802.11ac and LTE-3GPP. With the appropriate defaults conveniently set up and ready for use in the software’s test menus, RF designers will not need to set unfamiliar and complex dataflow parameters to verify their circuits or systems against wireless standards.

The software revamps its most powerful direct-synthesis technology for seamless workspace integration to allow multiple custom filters to be interactively designed together. Doing so enables the exacting design of diplexers, multiplexers and notched filters. Powerful equivalent network transforms can then be used, allowing designers to realise their designs in lumped and/or distributed printed circuit boards.

It also features the industry’s largest collection of vendor X-parameters models for use in nonlinear circuit and system simulation. Such functionality further establishes the software as the most affordable, accurate and ease-to-use RF simulation and synthesis solution in the industry.

Additional powerful upgrades include a new Momentum planar electromagnetic simulator and 3D layout viewer, an improved phase noise simulation algorithm, and 100 percent MATLAB script compatibility.