Advanced Design System (ADS)
Advanced Design System is the world’s leading electronic design automation software for RF, microwave, and high speed digital applications. In a powerful and easy-to-use interface, ADS pioneers the most innovative and commercially successful technologies, such as X-parameters* and 3D EM simulators, used by leading companies in the wireless communication & networking and aerospace & defense industries. For WiMAX™, LTE, multi-gigabit per second data links, radar, & satellite applications, ADS provides full, standards-based design and verification with Wireless Libraries and circuit-system-EM co-simulation in an integrated platform. Watch our ADS 30-Second Demos to see the powerful and easy-to-use ADS interface in action.
Key Benefits of ADS
- Complete, integrated set of fast, accurate and easy-to-use system, circuit & EM simulators enable first-pass design success in a complete desktop flow
- Application-specific DesignGuides encapsulate years of expertise in an easy-to-use interface
- ADS is supported exclusively or months earlier than others by leading industry and foundry partners
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ADS Bundles (25)
ADS Bundles
- Core environment bundle, a powerful RF and microwave design tool
- Pre-configured combinations of software targeted to specific design workflows
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Users can add separate design elements to expand design and simulation capability
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ADS Simulation Elements
ADS Simulation Elements
- Provide additional capabilities to the ADS Core environment
- Enable designers to customize the configuration of ADS to suit their design needs
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Provide an affordable and flexible way to expand design and simulation capabilities
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ADS Wireless Libraries
ADS Wireless Libraries
- Key models and verification templates for the latest communication standards
- Enables design and verification of the RF-PHY for the latest emerging wireless standards
- On the leading edge for providing wireless standards
Discontinued ADS Model Numbers [Discontinued]
Product support information for discontinued and obsolete Advanced Design System (ADS) model numbers.
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