Agilent Technologies First to Offer System-Level Wireless Signal Sources, Standards Measurements from within Cadence Design Platform.Business Editors/High-Tech WritersPALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 2003 New Wireless Test Benches Enable Verification of RF Circuit Designs to Increase Productivity, Speed Wireless Product Development Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :A) today introduced its RF Design Environment (RFDE RFDE Radio Frequency Design Engineer ) wireless test benches, the first product that offers system-level wireless signal sources and standards measurements from within Cadence Design System's industry-standard Virtuoso custom design platform. The new RFDE wireless test benches enable verification of RF circuit designs to help engineers in the communications industry increase productivity and speed development of wireless products. Today, system-level verification of circuit-level designs is performed late in the development cycle. The frequent use of unconnected tools to perform design verification increases risk and costs, leading to delays in the development cycle. Now, wireless system architects can develop test benches early in the development cycle and export them from Agilent's Advanced Design System (ADS) into RFDE. RFIC RFIC Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit RFIC Radio Frequency Interface Chip designers can then access the test benches from within the Cadence analog and mixed-signal design flow framework to verify their circuit designs before going to manufacturing. In addition, several pre-configured wireless test benches are available as an RFDE option, and provide fully parameterized sources and measurements to help meet today's complex wireless standards such as WLAN See wireless LAN. WLAN - wireless local area network , 3GPP GPP Government Performance Project GPP General Purpose Processor GPP General Physical Preparedness GPP Gambian People's Party GPP Good Pharmacy Practice GPP Gross Primary Productivity GPP Green Procurement Program GPP Generic Packetized Protocol and TD-SCDMA TD-SCDMA Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access . "Agilent's new wireless test benches fill the tremendous needs of our customers who are designing to the latest communication standards and increasingly integrating and verifying their designs within complex systems," said Jim Tabuchi, marketing and services manager of the EEsof EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. Division at Agilent. "RFDE wireless test benches are the result of our ongoing alliance with Cadence and are the latest enhancement to our widely accepted RFDE electronic design automation software." Agilent's RFDE electronic design automation (EDA) software environment tightly integrates RF simulation technologies from Agilent's ADS into Cadence's analog and mixed-signal design flow. The RFDE wireless test benches are part of the ongoing alliance between Agilent and Cadence to provide technologies that support complete systems-to-IC design implementation solutions for wireless communications products. RFDE wireless test benches use Agilent's industry-leading simulation technologies such as Circuit Envelope, Agilent Ptolemy and Automatic Verification Modeling. In addition, the Agilent Connection Manager works with RFDE wireless test benches to download data from RFDE to test instrumentation so that system verification can be performed earlier in the development cycle. More information on Agilent EDA tools is available at www.agilent.com/find/eesof. U.S. Pricing and Availability RFDE wireless test benches will be available for RFDE 2003C, which is expected to ship in January 2004. Yearly subscription prices for RFDE start at approximately $24,000. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 30,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $6 billion in fiscal year 2002. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com. NOTE TO EDITORS: Sales information is available by calling +1 800 452 4844, ext. 7851. Please do NOT use editor contact or corporate telephone numbers for sales and product information. Information in this news release applies specifically to products available in the United States. Product availability and specifications may vary in other markets. If you choose to review this item, your readers will receive the quickest response to their inquiries by mailing them to Agilent Technologies, Test and Measurement Organization, 5301 Stevens Creek Blvd., MS 54LAK LAK In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Laos Kip. 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