E5610-series DesignGuides

DesignGuides for Advanced Design System (ADS) provide complete studies of design topics in the form of simulation setups, data displays, and documentation. Expert design and simulation knowledge is captured in DesignGuides, bridging the gap between the broad, general capabilities of ADS and specific design challenges. DesignGuides enable users to leverage the knowledge of experts and use ADS's powerful simulation technologies in an application-focused way. Complex, multi-step, circuit synthesis and implementation design flows are greatly simplified with the use of DesignGuides customized to key physical and performance specifications. Set-up, simulation, and data display functions are activated with single keystrokes. Click on the following links for complete information. Product Information Ordering and Configuration Product Literature What's New Publications User Support

Product Highlights

• DesignGuides guide the user visually through a complex, multi-step design flow.
  
• Automate synthesis/implementation of a circuit, based on key physical and performance specifications.
  
• Automate the setup, simulation, and data display functions to visualize the results in single keystrokes.
  

Product Description

Expert Help in the Time-To-Market Race

As a communications product designer, you fuel your business growth by bringing state-of-the-art products to market as quickly as possible. In this fast-paced business you must keep up with emerging technologies and increasing design complexity while charting a course to product success.

It's a big challenge to balance the time spent acquiring new expertise against time-to-market constraints.

DesignGuides, a new set of application-focused products, help you achieve this balance. DesignGuides apply the powerful simulation technologies in Advanced Design System to specific design applications such as microstrip circuits, power amplifiers, mixers, filters, and oscillators.

They make the job of circuit design easier, faster, and more consistent through the use of wizards, templates, examples, and step-by-step instructions.

With DesignGuides, you leverage the best practices of industry experts. These experts collaborate with Agilent EEsof EDA to provide circuits for representative design topologies, along with simulation and results data for key specifications. The time they spend creating a DesignGuide is time you save on your own designs.

If you are a new or occasional user of Advanced Design System, or even an expert user that needs to gain new proficiency quickly, you'll really benefit from the built-in expertise in DesignGuides.

Design aids such as predetermined goals, predefined syntax, and preconfigured data displays give you easy access to the power of Advanced Design System, all without the up-front time requirements of learning from scratch.

What is in a DesignGuide?

• Key specifications.
  
• Quick-start guide/wizard-like dialogs.
  
• Starting circuits or system schematics.
  
• Pre-configured circuits and displays.
  
• User's guide and references.
  

What Design Types are Covered by DesignGuides?

DesignGuides are available for technology standards such as Bluetooth and CDMA2000 and design types such as RF systems, mixers, passive circuits, amplifiers, phase locked loops, and oscillators. Additional DesignGuides are being prepared.

• Amplifier DesignGuide
  
• Bluetooth DesignGuide
  
• CDMA2000 DesignGuide
  
• Filter DesignGuide
  
• Linearizer DesignGuide
  
• Mixer DesignGuide
  
• Oscillator DesignGuide
  
• Passive Circuit DesignGuide
  
• Phase Locked Loop DesignGuide
  
• RF System DesignGuide
  
• Ultra Wideband (UWB) Design Exploration Library
  
• WLAN DesignGuide
  

• DesignGuide Developer Studio
  

Design Utilities

The following design utilities are installed automatically with certain DesignGuides and are available under the DesignGuides menu command in ADS.

All three of these utilities are available with the Amplifier, Mixer, and Oscillator DesignGuides. The Smith Chart and Matching utilities are available with the Filter DesignGuide.

• Smith Chart Utility
  
• Transistor Bias Utility
  
• Matching Utility
  

Application Guides

The following Application Guides are available, without charge, for installation and use with ADS:

• Analog-to-Digital Converters Application Guide
  
• RF Budget Analysis Application Guide
  
• Load Pull Application Guide
  
• Radar Applications Application Guide
  
• Wireline Applications Application Guide
  

Product Demos

ONLINE DEMO

Advanced Design System DesignGuides To see a concise online demo of DesignGuides in Advanced Design System (ADS), click on the following link: DesignGuides Macromedia Flash audio/video. High-speed internet connnection recommended. Step-by-step demos of the Smith Chart, Matching Networks, and Bias Optimization DesignGuide Utilities; of the Filter DesignGuide; and of using the Linearizer Design Guide in the linearization of power amplifier hardware are also available. Click on the following links: DesignGuide Utilities Filter DesignGuide     Product Details     Demo Info     Run Linearizer DesignGuide     Product Details     Demo Info     Run Complete Online Product Demos

How To Buy

To request immediate sales assistance - for help choosing the best system; for product configuration and integration details; to request telephone assistance or an on-site demo of the software; or to request a price quotation - click on the following link:

• Agilent EEsof EDA Sales Assistance

Configuration Details

License Requirements

Each DesignGuide requires a separate, additional license.

Product Literature

• Advanced Design System (PDF, 4.0 MB).
  12-page color brochure. 4 March 2005.
  

• The Ultra Wideband (UWB) Design Exploration Library makes it possible to perform a complete system simulation of both the transmitter and receiver portions of a design, compliant with the newest release of the multi-band, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) specification (MBOA-SIG September 2004).

  Click on the following link for details:
  

  • Ultra Wideband (UWB) Design Exploration Library
    

• The Budget Analysis Application Guide is a collection of examples demonstrating the use of Advanced Design System(ADS) to perform budget analysis on a typical RF system chain.
  These examples include performing the budget analysis on 2-port cascades, multi-port topologies and analysis of mixer spurious response.

  The Budget Analysis Application Guide can be installed from the Agilent EEsof EDA Knowledge Center. Once installed, it is accessed from the schematic page under the DesignGuide menu.

  Click on the following link for installation and download details:
  

  • Budget Analysis Application Guide
    

Technical Articles

• Richard L. Carlson, Motorola, Inc., Meld Load-Pull Tests With EDA Tools, Microwaves & RF, PDF, 416 KB, 12-page technical article, April 2003. Current Issue: Microwaves & RF.
  
• Sanjeev Gupta, Agilent Technologies, Regenerative Payload Downconverter Simulation. 45-slide technical presentation, with speaker's notes. May 2002. PDF file, 1.8 MB.
  
• Mounir Adada, ADS 2001 Delivers Ease-of-Use and Greater Capabilities for MMIC Design, Microwave Product Digest, September 2001.   PDF Version (138 KB).   Current issue: Microwave Product Digest.
  

Training Classes

Advanced Design System Fundamentals

This is a medium-paced three-day detailed introduction to the application of Advanced Design System (ADS) for communication systems and circuit designs.

This course instructs designers on schematic capture, the proper application of a wide variety of simulators, and the display and manipulation of results.

After a brief study of ADS basic operation, students design and test amplifier and filter circuits that are then placed in a down-converting receiver system for final simulation. Real-world examples are used at all times so that designers can return to their jobs ready to apply ADS effectively to their design challenges.

For detailed course descriptions and class schedules worldwide, click on the following link:

• Agilent EEsof EDA Customer Education

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