TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies Announces Simulation Technology Breakthroughs for RFIC, MMIC, and RF System-in-Package Design.PALO 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. -- Core Simulator Enhancements in World's Most Widely Used Frequency-Domain Software Increase Speed of Large, Complex Circuits by Up to 50X Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :A) today announced breakthroughs in its core electronic design automation (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. ) frequency-domain simulation technologies for fast and accurate RFIC RFIC Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit RFIC Radio Frequency Interface Chip , MMIC (Monolithic Microwave IC) An integrated circuit used in high-frequency applications such as mobile phones. Also known as "monolithic microwave/millimeter-wave IC," MMICs combine transistors and passive devices (resistors, capacitors, etc. , and RF system-in-package (SiP) design. Simulation speed improvements of up to 50 times have been achieved for large and complex circuits used in wireless communications products and aerospace and defense applications. In RFIC, MMIC and RF SiP development, a single design iteration can cost up to a million dollars. The simulation technology breakthroughs in Agilent's EDA software will help eliminate these costly iterations by allowing designers to quickly and accurately predict performance prior to fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. . "Our customers' designs are continually becoming larger and more complex, so we have been investing heavily in our core RF simulation technology," said Larry Lerner, research and development manager of Agilent's EEsof EDA Division. "Based on early reactions from customers, these investments are paying off substantially." Customers have observed excellent results with test circuits containing thousands of transistors, such as transceiver ICs for wireless local area network (LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. ) applications. Extracted view simulations, which include additional physical components that represent IC parasitics, have been successfully completed on circuits containing hundreds of thousands of these components. In some cases, these circuits could not be simulated with previous technologies. Now, these very large and highly complex circuits simulate and converge quickly, even when using default simulation settings. Agilent's enhanced simulation technologies will be included in the company's next release of its Advanced Design System (ADS) and RF Design Environment (RFDE RFDE Radio Frequency Design Engineer ) simulation software packages. Agilent ADS offers a complete set of system and circuit simulation technology and instrument links for RF and microwave design in a single, integrated flow. Agilent RFDE is an RF EDA software environment that tightly integrates leading RF simulation technologies from Agilent ADS into the Cadence Design System industry-standard analog and mixed-signal design flow. The enhanced simulators in ADS and RFDE are expected to be available to selected beta-test customers beginning in June 2005. More information about how designers can participate in beta code evaluation is available at www.agilent.com/find/eesof-betatest. Additional information about Agilent's EDA products and applications is available at www.agilent.com/find/eesof. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) is a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 28,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $7.2 billion in fiscal year 2004. Information about Agilent is available on the Web www.agilent.com. 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