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RFIC simulation, analysis and verification

High-capacity circuit simulator with electromagnetic analysis and system-level design tools

Agilent Technologies’ GoldenGate Plus is a design package for RFIC simulation, analysis and verification that combines the high-capacity GoldenGate simulator that the company, acquired from Xpedion in 2006, with a customisable data display, electromagnetic (EM) simulation and system-level design and simulation. The simulator is integrated into the Cadence Analog Design Environment with algorithms for the design of large and complex RFIC design, and enables full characterization of complete transceivers prior to tape-out. It ensures device manufacturability and reduces design spins, using frequency-domain-based capabilities, faster by orders of magnitude than traditional, transient-based techniques, to perform analyses such as Monte Carlo simulations. The product offering includes RF Design Environment (RFDE), an RFIC design platform that is based on Agilent’s Advanced Design System and accessed from within the Cadence design environment; Advanced Design System RF and microwave-circuit and system-design software, providing design solutions for board-level and system-in-package-level RF design; Momentum, a 3-D planar EM simulator used for passive circuit analysis; Ptolemy, a system-level simulation and design solution based on a hybrid of synchronous and timed synchronous dataflow technologies; and Wireless Test Benches with several pre-configured system level source and measurement setups.