| Last Updated: 25 April 2008 |
ADS Release: |
| Product feature/capability added or improved |
ADS 2008 |
ADS 2008
Update1 |
| Windows Vista support (32, 64-bit) |
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| New Project Management (improved workspace organization & file management, drag&drop subnetwork placement, heirarchical copy/rename) |
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| New Greeting "Getting Started" greeting screen and "how-to" videos |
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| Fast 1-Click Help Navigation |
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| Improved Design Navigation: Mouse scroll-wheel pan and zoom, panning using mouse or keyboard |
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| Improved Layout: Via auto-insertion; translucent fill patterns for easy layer visibility |
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| Artwork Translators: New DFX Import and Export, New Gerber Export |
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| Improved Usability for Design Rule Checking to easily find and fix errors |
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| Improved Schematic / Layout design synchronization guarantees correct layouts |
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| 3D Viewer* improved to include layer color mapping from layout |
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| ADS Simulation: Faster DC, AC and Transient Simulation Speed-Ups |
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| ADS Simulation: New Power Probe directly calculates power at a node without cumbersome equations |
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| ADS Simulation: New S-parameter Probe directly extracts bi-directional inter-stage S-parameters |
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| ADS Simulation: HSPICE® compatibility |
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| ADS Simulation: Simulated Annealing optimizer converges on the best solution for difficult problems |
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| ADS Simulation: Large datasets for increased capacity (64-bit) |
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| ADS Simulation: Remote simulation using new distributed bundled license |
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| Momentum: Multi-threaded matrix loading on multi-core shared memory systems |
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| "EMDS for ADS": Directly create parameterized JEDEC-compliant bond wire shapes for 3-D EM analysis |
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| ADS Data Display: Intelligent symbol spacing on traces |
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| ADS Data Display: Improved page management with tabs |
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| ADS Data Display: CSV data export |
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| ADS Editing and Layout Support: New Redo function |
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| ADS Editing and Layout Support: New shape editing dialog with multiple selection |
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| Momentum: Layout pre-processor eliminates meshing errors |
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| Momentum: Simulates very large structures 6 times larger than previously possible |
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| Momentum: Memory usage reduced by 50% |
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| Momentum: Simulates up to 10 times faster |
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| Momentum: New Momentum Turbo enables true distributed simulations on compute clusters |
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| Momentum: Multi-core multi-threading for matrix load and matrix solve |
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| Modeling and Circuit Simulation: Faster (3X-10X) Harmonic Balance simulation of very large circuits |
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| Modeling and Circuit Simulation: Supports latest PSP102.2 (NXP SiMKit) and HiSIM 2.40 models |
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| Modeling and Circuit Simulation: MOSVAR varactor model & TOM4 model |
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| Modeling and Circuit Simulation: W-Element import from HSPICE® netlists |
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| Modeling and Circuit Simulation: New de-embedding components for ease of use |
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| Modeling and Circuit Simulation: Impulse Response Model Writer |
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| Modeling and Circuit Simulation: IBIS series switch / MOSFET support |
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| Modeling and Circuit Simulation: Noise figure simulation in Circuit Envelope |
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| Modeling and Circuit Simulation: Ptolemy sources exportable to GoldenGate |
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| Modeling and Circuit Simulation: New UMB Wireless Library |
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| Ship Date (month/day/year) |
01/29/08 |
May 2008 |
