Keysight CyPerf Agent

What do you like best about the product?

ADS offers a wide range of simulation tools, including circuit, electromagnetic (EM), and system-level simulations

What do you dislike about the product?

New users may find the interface and extensive features overwhelming, requiring significant time and training to become proficient.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Simulation for ESD systems

What do you like best about the product?

Lots of templates that cover almost all design aspects in a modern system

What do you dislike about the product?

the analog and digital parts are sometimes a bit confusing.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

helps with quick prototyping and architecture verification

What do you like best about the product?

Simple interface, best tool to learn the design of RF circuits. There were many inbuilt test benches are available which will help in the design of circuits like power amplifiers.

What do you dislike about the product?

Each and every time we need to select the type of simulator and we need to define the measurement equations, especially parameters of PA like PAE, drain efficiency and gain, etc.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Design of power amplifier circuits, circuit simulation, and EM simulation. Also verifying its performance by applying modulated signals and measuring the parameters like ACLR, EVM, and IMD, etc.

What do you like best about the product?

Its utility, its speed and how easy it is to use.

What do you dislike about the product?

There is nothing that I dislike for ADS.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Learning purposes (student) . Solving RF circuit simulations and EM simulations

Recommendations to others considering the product:

It is very intuitive, and the learning curve is not steep.

What do you like best about the product?

we can perform various simulations at a time.

What do you dislike about the product?

Checking transistor parameter given by foundry

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Impedance matching

What do you like best about the product?

It has too many features, from implementing a design using layout to Smith-chart plots, it had everything required in one EDA Tool itself. I attended a workshop by Keysight where they gave a session on ADS. I also designed a directional coupler, microstrip LPF using this tool.

What do you dislike about the product?

It is not very user-friendly for beginners. If you don't know RF/Microwave, then you can not directly use this advanced software.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used Keysight ADS during my college days. I used it in one of my projects which was the design and implementation of the directional coupler and microstrip LPF. Keysight ADS is so good that I completed the entire development phase in the same EDA tool itself and got the final Gerber file for fabrication using CNC machines.

What do you like best about the product?

RFIC Inductor Synthesis with Agilent ADS

What do you dislike about the product?

I never came across any dislikes till now.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tuning and Optimization & Smart Mount for Multi-Technology Designs

What do you like best about the product?

Its easy integration with other electromagnetic simulators, comprehensive component libraries and capabilities of co-simulation in other platforms, including Hardware Description Language (VHDL & Verilog). It is a unique tool both for analysis and synthesis, specially for RF and Microwave designers.

What do you dislike about the product?

HDL co-simulation restricted to ModelSim; and Verilog XL no longer supported since 2014.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am doing research on clean renewable sources of energy, specially marine electrostatic energy conversion, where I am interested in process modeling within a plasma, with equivalent electrodynamic and electronic components, and control of processes by integration of hardware and software, all of which requires, if possible, a robust software with a maximum capability of simulation, co-simulation and integration of analog, digital and control systems.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

I would recommend having a minimum (basic) knowledge of programming C. C++, VHDL, MatLab, Simulink and LabView (G-programming).

What do you like best about the product?

The ease of making the circuits with practical constraints and see their behavior.

What do you dislike about the product?

Few of the ground lines are little confusing.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mostly, High frequency and open circuit problems.

What do you like best about the product?

It is very user friendly and the learning curve is the best among EDA competitors

What do you dislike about the product?

The cross integration with Cadence (especially Virtuoso) should be improved.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

PCB parasites extraction and estimation for DC-DC converters and PMIC applications.