Advanced Design System 2012 Updates

New Electrothermal Circuit Simulation

• Provides higher accuracy 'thermally aware' circuit simulation results
• Includes effects of on-chip temperature rise
• Avoid thermal runaway, current crowding, memory effects
• 3-D temperature map of the full chip and package
• Pinpoint where to change the layout
• Easy to set up and use from within the ADS environment
• Works with all simulation types: DC, AC, SP, HB, Transient, Envelope
• Applications: high power RFIC / MMIC design

NEW NeuroFET Model

• Artificial Neural Network Measurement-based FET Model
• Complete Solution: data acquisition, extraction and simulation in ADS
• More accurate than other data-based models compact models
• Accurate 2nd, 3rd, Nth order effects
• Robust RF & DC convergence and improved small-signal distortion
• More accurate PAE and S-parameters vs. bias
• Applications: GaN, InP, GaAs

Updated Nonlinear Models

• BSIM 4.7.0
• BSIM-CMG 106.0.0
• HICUM 2.3.1
• HiSIM 2.5.1, 2.6.0, 2.6.1
• HiSIM_HV 1.1.2, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 2.0.0, 2.0.1
• SiMKit 3.8

Harmonic Balance

• Automatically moves past stuck points to improve convergence
• Better convergence and faster performing oscillator analysis

Transient GPU analysis

• 8X faster than a standard CPU and about 2X faster than first generation GPU support
• Newly supported – R, C, L, and K models.
• Supported on Windows (32 & 64 bit) and Linux 32 & 64 bit platforms

Dynamic Link

• Fully automated Dynamic Link encryption simplifies sharing of IP

Linear Collapser

• The Linear Collapser is fully automated
• Does not require a controller to be placed on the schematic
• Improves simulation performance

X-Parameters

• More accurate when simulating at different load points

Multi-Chip Module FEM Simulation

• Supports 3D FEM simulations on side by side ICs on a module
• Analyze coupling effects between system components
• Easy technology setup

Improved Multi-technology Circuit Simulation

• New Multi-Technology mode
  • Supports different ambient temperatures for each IC/Module/subcircuit
  • Supports different instance scale for each IC/ Module/subcircuit.
  • Can override for all instances of a specific subcircuit
  • Can set different temperatures on an instance basis

New Layout Features and Improvements

New Navigator Window

• Displays all the objects in a design
• Shows the entire design hierarchy
• Can cross-probe between the Navigator and the design window
• Window can be docked

New Search Utility

• Easy to search for any object in the design hierarchy
• Wizard to quickly set up search criteria
• Selecting the objects in the Search window will automatically zoom to the object
• Automatically opens the containing design if in the hierarchy
• Window can be docked

New Docking Windows

• The Search, Navigator, Info, Layers and the Properties dialogs can be docked
• Drag the windows to dock on any side of the window
• Can stack windows or create tabbed windows or a combination

New Flight Wires

• Improve the display of connectivity
• Cleaner point to point display, makes design editing easier
• Can optionally be turned or retain previous physical wires

Multiple Connectivity Modes

• Provides flexibility in how the underlying connectivity is created
• Helps fit ADS to the user’s design style
• Provides 3 modes – 2011 mode, standard, and manual

Improved netname management

• Can now create custom names for nets
• Makes the design easier to understand
• Can force nets so they have a persistent connectivity

Net Overlap Zones

• Highlights when objects that have different netnames overlap
• Helps identify potential errors
• Gives an easy way to fix or ignore the error

Copy & Oversize

• Single click to create multi-layer structures from selected shapes
• Can both oversize and undersize
• Can merge multiple shapes into polygons
• Can include multiple steps into a single operation
• Can save and restore multiple operations

Lock Components

• Prevents designers from accidentally moving components while editing designs
• Prevents components from moving when doing a design synch
• Can optionally display a rectangle to indicate a locked component

Improved Rotate functionality

• The rotate functionality has been integrated with other commands, such as copy, paste, and move 
• Reduces multi-step operation to a single operation 

Display of Origin

• Layout origin (0,0) is now full screen and easy to see
• Color is user configurable 

Improvements to Rulers and Dimension Lines

• Rulers can now be placed at 45 and 90 degree locks 
• Insures more accurate measurements 
• Rulers are now placed on reserved system layers 

New flexible Archive and Unarchive features

• Gives more control over what is archived
• Helps insure that all the required data is included in the archive
• Can archive multiple workspaces, libraries, and PDKs referenced by current workspace
• Can archive a subset of the workspace to archive, down to an individual single cell
• Can easily include the sub-cell design hierarchy, even across multiple libraries
• Can choose not to archive data sets or EM simulation results
• On unarchive, you can choose all or a subset of the archive
• Can unarchive workspaces, libraries, PDKs to different directories

Data Management

• New version control for ADS
• Uses ClioSoft SOS Data Management product
• Create and manage new design versions
• Rollback design to a previous version
• Seamless integration inside ADS Flow
• Right-click popup menu for version control
• SOS menu in ADS library browser window
• Check-out lock & check-in to prevent concurrent changes
• Auto-checkout when changes made
• Support for delete & rename

Data Display

• Data Display Dynamic Readout
  • Hover over a plot to see the plot value
  • An alternative to using markers
• Improved performance for Momentum results
  • Can be up to a 10X improvement

Improved graphics for external output

• Now support Vector Graphics (SVG) Format for Print to File
• Vector graphics maintains its accuracy when it is scaled
• Works with Schematic, Layout, Data Display, and the Notebook

Support Enhanced MetaFile (EMF) format for Clipboard 

• Maintains its accuracy when scaled
• Works with Schematic, Layout, Data Display, and the Notebook 

New file formats supported for Print to File

• BMP, JPG, PNG, PPM, TIFF, XBM, XPM, and SVG
• Works with Schematic, Layout, Data Display, and the Notebook

Improved conversion of pre-2011 DSN Projects

• Can select a technology definition from an existing library
• Prevents the creation of multiple libraries 

DRC and LVS Enhancements

• New function to check metal area coverage ratio
• New function to determine inverse of a shape on a layer
• Can define object as Layout only to reduce false LVS errors

Design Translation

• ADS Design Flow Integration (ADFI)
• Faster transfer of Allegro designs with positive layers
• Easier to install as an AEL Add-On
• Schematic and symbol views are created for all designs in the design hierarchy
• New option in Allegro to expand hatch patterns

New ADS-EMPro integration in combination with EMPro 2012

• Operates through a common database
• Support for co-simulation between circuit simulation and parameterized 3D components simulated with FEM
• Support for adding ports on 3D components added to ADS layout

Setup Enhancements

• Specify Data Display to open
• Limit post-processing data storage to user-defined frequencies

Technology Definition

• For the situation where there are multiple substrate definitions, it is possible to define one of them as the default
• The Substrate Editor now graphically shows which layers are controlled by a boundary layer when defining finite dielectrics for FEM simulation

Electro Magnetic Simulation - Momentum

• Supports conductor permeability (ferrite conductors)
• Improved overlap extraction and mesh reduction around vias
• Far fields for multiple frequencies

Improved Amplifier DesignGuide

• Many setups for analyzing the performance of BJTs, FETs, and amplifiers
• Simulation setups (with data displays) for power sweeps, to show performance at specific output power
• Gain compression setups to handle the maximum gain point as the 0-dB reference
• Specify gain or noise values for plotting gain and noise circles
• Easily plot circles at different frequencies across a band
• Circulation of input and output reflection coefficients and impedance

Improved Load Pull DesignGuide

• Easier to find suitable simulation setups
• New optimization to find best load impedance while sweeping output power for measured load pull data
• Three new load mismatch setups to investigate amplifier performance degradation due to load VSWR variation

New product W2324 High Capacity Layout Pre-processor supports selection of critical nets for EM modeling

• Imports ODB++ data generated by other PCB tools

New re-driver component in Channel Simulator based on a pre-standard extension to IBIS AMI

• Electrical re-drivers
• Opto link models
• Crosstalk is modeled in channel simulations include re-drivers

S-parameter circuit creation through Schematic Wizard

• Imports port and net names
• Enhanced symbol generation including odd-ports-left, even-ports-right, dual in-line symbol

Measurement Expressions

• Interpolate_swept_data() now handles data with up to 10 independent variables

• New Interpolate_y_vs_x() function gives improved results over Interpolate_swept_data() for certain situations

• New Max_within_x_domain() function to find the maximum value of a response while another response is within a range of values
• New Min_within_x_domain() function to find the minimum value of a response while another response is within a range of values

Instrument Link

• Support for more instruments including new PNA series, oscilloscopes, N5172B (EXG X-Series) and N5182B (MXG X-Series)
• ADS Support for PNA-X N524x series and the new PNA N522X
• VSA 89600B Source and VSA 89600B Sink now support 64 bit Windows and support Keysight 89600 VSA version 15 and later

ADS Ptolemy

• Built-in ADS-SystemVue co-simulation components
• Improved automation of the SystemVue-ADS co-simulation flow in SystemVue 2012.06
• Support MATLAB 2012a co-simulation

Documentation

• Four new Application Based Flows
• Seven new short How Do I Videos
• New Licensing Administrator's Guide
• New Feedback collection mechanism introduced in Local Help

Nov
2012