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Dedicated for RF/Microwave Circuit Design
RFPro Electromagnetic (EM) Simulation
Environment
Performing EM analysis is as easy as Circuit simulation
RFPro, the industry’s first EM environment dedicated for RF and Microwave circuit design, is
seamlessly integrated with Keysight Pathwave Advanced Design System (ADS) and Cadence
Virtuoso. RFPro makes performing EM analysis as easy as running circuit simulations,
dramatically simplifying EM-circuit co-simulation of RFIC, MMIC and RF module designs for 5G,
IoT and defense-aerospace applications.
“The vision for RFPro began in 2015. Circuit designers want to simply
simulate any portion of their design with an EM tool and get the correct
answers without having to “cookie cut” the layout and worry about
wrongly setting up EM ports and ground references.
They want to have full confidence that the EM analysis was done
correctly and immediately use the results in EM-circuit co-simulation to
perfect their designs or to understand the impact of laminate layer
misalignment, fabrication over-sizing or under-sizing.
They hate spending hours, days or even weeks of manual work
removing active components or surface mount parts from the design just
to perform the EM simulation and them re-attaching them all back for
EM-circuit co-simulation. “
Joe Civello
ADS Product Manager
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“Imagine if I could just ‘EM” any portion of my RF layout in situ”
"With increasing frequency, data rates and product miniaturization, RF
circuit simulation alone is no longer adequate for the design of RF
modules, RFIC and MMIC due to inevitable electromagnetic interactions.
EM simulators are traditionally disconnected from RF circuit simulators,
presenting design and optimization challenges at every iterative design
step, which slows innovation and product introductions,"
“Imagine if I could just ‘EM’ any portion of my RF layout in situ without
worrying about how to set up the analysis correctly and spontaneously
use the EM results in my circuit design workflow; then I can account for
or exploit the EM-circuit interactions to quickly explore innovative design
options that would be very tedious to do before”.
RFPro in Pathwave Advanced Design System (ADS) and Cadence Virtuoso
RFpro is integrated in Pathwave ADS and Cadence Virtuoso. It offers predictive expert presets for correct
EM analysis of user-identified physical circuit layout structures and automatic EM-circuit co-simulation
partitioning for effortless integration of EM results into circuit design for interactive tuning and
optimization. It makes significant progress on our vision to enable EM-circuit designs that can be
parameterized, swept, tuned and optimized as easily as in circuit simulation. This means:
• Saving 2 hours to 2 weeks per simulation versus using external EM simulators
• Instant correct setup of EM-circuit co-simulation without layout modifications
• Automatic assignment of EM ports and materials
• No waiting for someone else to setup and run batched external EM analysis
RFPro performs EM analysis of RF layout
in situ without cookie cutting
Matt Ozalas
RF Module and RFIC designer
Keysight Technologies
Predictive EM expert settings makes EM-
circuit co-simulation of this MMIC as easy as
circuit simulation