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Startup Program Offering

Keysight EDA offers a Startup Program to help you be successful through:

  • Providing aggressive discounts for Keysight EDA products you need and maintaining a healthy cash flow.
  • Establishing investor confidence for sustained funding with accurate visualization and simulation of your potential products and services
  • Promoting the early success, such as developing joint case studies (e.g. Menlo Micro) to build investor credibility, attract additional funding, and potential acquisition.
  • Including Keysight “Get Started” training with each package

We are here to help you be successful because that's how Keysight got started.

Eligibility details

Keysight believes in investing in the future of our customers. Our RF EDA tools are the best-in-class, and we will support you through the many stages of your company’s growth. The following are the typical conditions for a start-up to be fully qualified:

  • A new company in the early stages of development
  • Typical is between one and three rounds of venture capital funding
  • Most companies are in the product concept stage or early production
  • Most startups are in the early stages of their life cycle (0-5 years)
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Start Your Next Design with Keysight EDA Tools

The Keysight suite of EDA tools seamlessly integrates device modeling, circuit design, EM simulation, layout capabilities, and system-level modeling. Keysight’s open solutions approach for workflow enablement ensures that our EDA software interoperates with other EDA software from our ecosystem partners. Combine process design kits (PDKs) with our circuit simulators to increase your confidence in achieving design success.

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Apply here to qualify & participate in the Keysight EDA Startup Program. 

Customer Success Videos

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Keysight EDA Success Stories

Case Studies 2025.11.05

Pushing Power Amplifiers into the V Band with III-V Materials

This case study describes III-V Lab’s development of high-frequency GaN MMIC power amplifiers using advanced III-V materials and Fan-Out Wafer Level Packaging (FOWLP). Through integrated design and simulation, the team achieved amplifiers operating at 55–68 GHz with low RF losses and strong alignment between simulated and measured results. The project demonstrates effective co-design of MMICs and packaging for improved performance at mmWave frequencies.

2025.11.05

Case Studies 2025.05.22

Differentiating Short-Range Radar with UWB Technology

Case Study: Aria Sensing three person design team advances software-defined single-chip radar through circuit-EM co-simulation.

2025.05.22

Case Studies 2024.03.22

Devising Scalable Models and Methods for RF PA Design

Broadcom, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California, is currently the fourth-largest semiconductor firm by revenue globally, according to Gartner, designing and developing a broad range of solutions for its customers. One of its many operating segments is its Wireless Semiconductor Division (WSD), creating RF front-end, power amplifier (PA), and filter products for 5G, Wi-Fi, GNSS, Bluetooth, and other applications. This case study covers how WSD devised scalable models and methods for RF PA design, replacing gut feel with a science-based approach for complex multi-variable design optimization via simulation.

2024.03.22

Case Studies 2023.11.07

Sarcina Delivers Right-First-Time Packages Using ADS for Chip-Package-Board Simulation

Sarcina Technology has carved a niche in designing semiconductor packages for some of the most sophisticated devices in the market. Their prowess is showcased in their work on workstations and datacenter CPUs, GPUs, and network processors that employ the latest technologies. Sarcina has a 100% success rate for all of the package designs using ADS at the heart of their workflow. Accuracy is particularly important and includes every element of the signal and power distribution network on each package.

2023.11.07

Case Studies 2023.06.06

mmWave RF Driver Amplifiers with Better Engineered Tradeoffs

Marki Microwave created mmWave RF driver amplifiers with better engineered tradeoffs using PathWave ADS. Robust models and Winslow probe stability analysis help deliver balanced gain, output power, and bandwidth on Marki's designs.

2023.06.06

Case Studies 2023.05.25

Creating Highly Efficient and Reliable mmWave Power Amplifiers

mmTron, a Silicon Catalyst portfolio company based in Redwood City, California, specializes in designing high power, high linearity, yet efficient and reliable millimeter wave (mmWave) integrated circuits for advanced wireless and satellite communication systems. mmTron creates RF components in high-speed III-V processes, including GaAs, GaN, InP, SiGe, and RFSOI. mmTron adopted Keysight PathWave ADS as the linchpin of its workflow, and its teams now see the advantages.

2023.05.25

Case Studies 2023.03.07

Predicting Ka-band Transceiver Thermal Margins, Wear, and Lifespan

One use case for EnSilica’s Ka-band (26.5-40 GHz) transceivers is vehicle-mounted low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite terminals, where harsh temperatures can wear parts out faster than expected. Assessing the thermal performance of these transceivers using Keysight PathWave Advanced Design System (ADS), PathWave RFPro, and PathWave ADS Electro-Thermal Simulator is vital in understanding their thermal operating margin and lifespan.

2023.03.07

Case Studies 2023.01.19

Optimizing MxFE Front Ends with Complex Gain Control Settings

Analog Devices developed a reference design and simulation model in PathWave System Design for the signal chain involving its RF front-end MxFE family of devices. This reference model is available to ADI's device customers for exploration of their RF front end designs. ADI expects the model to save customers up to 6 months in their development cycles by shifting design exploration left in the workflow.

2023.01.19

Foundry Process Design Kits

Integrated circuit (IC) foundries offer semiconductor processes that use PDKs containing active and passive device simulation models for IC design. Keysight EDA tools work closely with foundries to offer high-frequency PDKs in Si, SiGe, GaAs, InP, and GaN processes.

When choosing a foundry PDK, you must be sure that the models meet foundry manufacturing requirements. Foundries validate and distribute all PDKs provided for Keysight simulators, guaranteeing that the models behave optimally for first-pass design success.

Keysight EDA software tools work with IC foundries on PDKs

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