ADS-Instrument Links

Links between Agilent Technologies instruments and Agilent EEsof EDA software greatly extend the capabilities both of instruments and of EDA software.

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• Agilent Technologies Connected Solutions

  Agilent Technologies connected solutions integrate Advanced Design System and Agilent instrumentation to allow the sharing of signals, measurements, algorithms, and data in both directions between the two domains.

  Connected Solutions can be used to create simulation models from measurements of existing components. Connected solutions can also determine if a component or sub-system will work within the system as a whole, without having to build the whole system.

  Connected Solutions can also be used to create signals for device testing that include the actual signal impairments that will be present when the system is built.

• E5720A Connection Manager

  The Connection Manager greatly expands the Advanced Design System’s ability to connect and control Agilent Instrumentation, and thus expands the Agilent Connected Solutions possible with ADS.

  The Connection Manager can read data from, download data to, and control an instrument, but it also provides new functionality such as: automatic discovery of the instruments connected to it; a built-in swept power s-parameter application for creating behavioral models of an amplifier; the ability to connect to instruments from a UNIX computer; saving the Connection Manager configuration; and context sensitive help.

• Advanced Design System Instrument Server

  The instrument server capability is built into the ADS Design Environment and provides a control facility for bi-directional data exchange with all instruments supported by Advanced Design System.

  Data can be acquired from network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes and other communications related equipment or models. Such data can be used to represent individual components, instead of datasheet or equation data; it can also be used as a real-world simulation source.

• ADS-VEE Link

  The VEE Link in ADS joins the design and test domains by allowing co-simulations using VEE from within ADS. VEE provides access to a wide range of instrument drivers and vendor applications.

• File Import and Export

  The ADS Design Environment supports the import and export of Series IV mask (.msk) files as well as the import of HPGL/2 files.