Advanced Design System
Electronic design automation software system
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Advanced Design System (ADS) is an electronic design automation software system produced by PathWave Design, a division of Keysight Technologies.[1] It provides an integrated design environment to designers of RF electronic products such as mobile phones,[2] pagers, wireless networks, satellite communications, radar systems, and high-speed data links.[3]
| Advanced Design System | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Keysight Technologies PathWave Design |
| Initial release | 1985 (then called Microwave Design System (MDS)) |
| Operating system | Linux, Windows |
| Platform | ADS platforms |
| Type | Electronic circuit simulation |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | Official website  |
Keysight ADS supports every step of the design process — schematic capture, layout, design rule checking, layout versus schematic, frequency-domain and time-domain circuit simulation, and electromagnetic field simulation — allowing the engineer to fully characterize and optimize an RF design without changing tools.
Keysight has donated copies of the ADS software to the electrical engineering departments at many universities.[4]
See also
- Momentum (electromagnetic simulator) — 3D Planar EM simulator element of ADS platforms
- FEM Element — Arbitrary 3D geometry EM simulator element of ADS platforms