Advanced Design System (ADS)

Accelerate RF, High-Speed Digital, Power, Photonic, and Quantum Design with Industry-Leading Simulation.

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Why Use Advanced Design System (ADS)

Premier RF and high-speed digital EDA platform.

Keysight ADS is the premier electronic design automation (EDA) platform for the design of high-frequency RFICs, RF transceiver modules and RF PCBs. Its highly accurate multi-domain RF circuit-EM-electrothermal and system simulators, complemented with industry standards compliant test bench libraries, makes ADS sought after also for High-Speed Digital, Quantum, Power Electronics and Silicon Photonics applications. 

ADS is an integrated design, simulation and optimization platform with unique 3D Heterogeneous Integration (3DHI) drag-and-drop advanced packaging of RF transceiver modules and chiplets. The ADS industry standards compliant test benches covers both wireless and high-speed digital standards with Keysight instrument grade algorithms for signal generation and analysis to ensure the highest verification accuracy and eliminate wasteful hardware respins. 

ADS provides an open environment with AI Model Context Protocol (MCP) interface and Python APIs to enable complex workflows to be captured and orchestrated for efficient, parallelized design exploration and optimization of even the most challenging multi-objective design. 

Key Capabilities

Explore ADS Solutions

Achieve Physical Density Co-design and Multi-technology Workflows

As radio-frequency (RF) applications move into millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies, integration is becoming denser. This density increases the complexity of correctly assembling, simulating, and verifying multi-technology RF modules. Keysight's ADS helps reduce costly hardware failures by enabling a 3D Heterogeneous Integration (3DHI) of RFICs, MMICs, packaging, PCBs, and antennas into multi-technology modules.

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Overcome High-Speed Digital Design Challenges

Signal and power integrity are becoming more important as frequency and speed increase in printed circuit boards (PCBs). Losses associated with transmission line effects can cause failures in electronic devices. Modeling traces, vias, and modern interconnects such as Chiplets UCIe and BoW are necessary to simulate the board accurately. Improve high-speed link performance in PCB designs with standards-driven integrated circuit design and electromagnetic simulators customized for power and signal integrity analysis.

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Increase Reliability in Power Converter Designs

Power supplies, solar inverters, and electric vehicles are driving the need for more efficiency in power device designs. The technology that enables an increase in efficiency is wide-bandgap materials such as Silicon Carbide and Gallium Nitride. Model modern materials and switch-mode power supplies to optimize power device designs for maximum efficiency.

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Electronic Photonic Design Automation

Keysight's Photonic Designer is a cutting-edge Electronic Photonic Design Automation (EPDA) solution engineered to meet the complex demands of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design. By seamlessly integrating physics-based simulations with measurement-calibrated models, our software empowers engineers to design, simulate, and validate PICs with unmatched accuracy.

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Expedite Development of Quantum Chips

As the demand for more powerful quantum chips grows, innovative quantum design is key to accelerating development. Save time and cut costs with intuitive tools that bridge the quantum knowledge gap for microwave engineers. Stay ahead in the quantum race—embrace cutting-edge design to fuel breakthroughs in computing and beyond. Transform possibilities into reality with speed and precision. Unlock the future with Quantum Design!

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Design Cloud (HPC) Simulation

Design Cloud (HPC)

Complex product designs need massive and time-consuming simulations. Keysight Design Cloud leverages High-Performance Computing (HPC) technologies that let you run parallel simulations in the cloud, cluster, or server to reduce simulation time and expedite time-to-market significantly.

Resources to Get You Started

ADS Bundles Configuration Guide
ADS Bundles Configuration Guide

ADS Software Bundles provide circuit and component designers with a choice of value-packed, preconfigured combinations of software modules built for specific design workflows. These combinations start with the powerful core ADS functionality for 3D physical layout and verification, data display, optimization, Python scripting automation and statistical analysis.

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