Agilent Technologies Inc. announced a 10x speedup of its planar 3-D electromagnetic (EM) simulator, which is part of the Update 1 release of its Advanced Design System (ADS) 2008 EDA software platform. The speed improvement helps RFIC, RF module and high-speed gigabit serial-link designers take advantage of EM simulation for faster, more accurate design and signal integrity verification.
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"The cumulative effect of our EM technology improvements means our customers can use our Momentum simulator for accurate, interactive design, and not just for limited sign-off verification," said Jan Van-Hese, EM R&D project manager with Agilent's EEsof EDA division. "The 10x speed improvement and meshing accuracy makes EM problem-solving possible for even very large and complex designs."
Momentum is the planar 3-D electromagnetic simulator in ADS 2008. Significant enhancements to its speed and capacity for analyzing large multigigabit serial-link signal integrity, RFIC and RF module design include:
• a fast and memory-efficient solver based on the NlogN matrix compression techniques that tackle problems up to six times larger than previously possible;
• multicore computer use through parallelizing the solve process across all available PC-processor cores;
• distributed simulation over networked computer clusters to perform multipoint EM simulation in parallel; and
• a robust mesher that intelligently pre-processes layouts imported from other systems to guarantee mesh-related simulation accuracy.
Agilent's Advanced Design System is a powerful electronic design automation platform. It offers complete design integration to designers of consumer and commercial wireless electronic products such as mobile phones, wireless networking, GPS; radar and satellite communications systems; and high-speed digital serial links.