Agilent Technologies Genesys 2012 design software

Agilent Technologies has released its high-performance software for RF and microwave board design, Genesys 2012.

The updated software provides enhancements in RF system simulation (including electromagnetic, circuit and statistical simulation), plus features to help designers improve the reliability of their systems.

The software is said to simplify analysis of RF systems with multistage conversions that enable system architects to easily visualise spurious signals across a broad frequency sweep.

Along with its unique root-cause-analysis capabilities, the software gives RF system designers power to quickly determine the source and path of spurious frequencies across the entire frequency range of the system. This enables efficient troubleshooting of the system architecture and frequency plan during system design, before hardware implementation.

The latest release provides improvements to the planar EM simulator Momentum GXF, including a quadrangle mesher to efficiently mesh a planar layout with the fewest number of unknowns. It also provides a one-click link to the company’s EMPro software for immediate full 3D EM simulation without having to redraw the structure, assign material properties or port locations.

The software provides wide coverage of circuit synthesis applications to tackle tough designs such as custom notched filters and wideband matching networks. Monte Carlo statistical analysis results can be exported into a spreadsheet for further analysis and reporting.