Traditional RF board design strategies based on circuit simulation worked at lower frequencies and relatively large spacing between components. Higher frequencies and densification dominate RF designs now, where corresponding wider bandwidths and tighter layouts with closely spaced components produce more complex 3D… Read More
Chiplets-Based Systems: Keysight’s Role in Design, Testing, and Data Management
Keysight, with deep roots tracing back to Hewlett-Packard, has long been at the forefront of innovation in electronic design and testing. It manufactures electronics test and measurement equipment and software. The company also owns its own foundry and makes custom chips and packages for its instrumentation business. Many… Read More
Crosstalk, 2kAmp power delivery, PAM4, and LPDDR5 analysis at DesignCon
High-speed digital (HSD) designers have long tested the limits of realizable speed. GHz frequencies are now the norm, and multi-level signaling is pushing rates higher while the long-awaited transition to optical signaling and even higher rates looms ever closer. Power density is also climbing, and data-hungry applications… Read More
Chiplet integration solutions from Keysight at Chiplet Summit
Chiplets continue gaining momentum, fueled in large part by applications for AI and 5G/6G RFICs. Keysight has a strong presence at this year’s Chiplet Summit in Santa Clara, which includes Simon Rance in a super panel discussing “Chiplets: The Key to Solving the AI Energy Gap” and Nilesh Kamdar with a keynote… Read More
GaN HEMT modeling with ANN parameters targets extensibility
Designers choosing gallium nitride (GaN) transistors may face a surprising challenge when putting the devices in their context. While the Advanced SPICE Model for GaN HEMTs (ASM-HEMT) model captures many behaviors like thermal and trapping effects, it grapples with accuracy over a wide range of bias conditions. Foundries … Read More
Keysight EDA 2025 launches AI-enhanced design workflows
The upcoming Keysight EDA 2025 launch has three familiar tracks: RF circuit design, high-speed digital circuit design, and device modeling and characterization. However, this update features a common thread between the tracks – AI-enhanced design workflows. AI speeds modeling and simulation, opening co-optimization for… Read More
Webinar: When Failure in Silicon Is Not an Option
If the thought of a silicon respin keeps you awake at night, you’re not alone. Re-fabricating a chip can cost tens of millions of dollars. An unplanned respin also risks a delay in getting a product to market, which adds tremendous costs in terms of lost business.
Undoubtedly, adding to your sleep loss is the recent rise in respins.… Read More
Keysight EDA and Engineering Lifecycle Management at #61DAC
Entering the exhibit area of DAC on the first floor I was immediately faced with the Keysight EDA booth, and it was even larger than either the Synopsys or Cadence booths. They had a complete schedule of partners presenting in their theatre that included: Microsoft Azure, Riscure, Fermi Labs, BAE Systems, Alphawave, Intel Foundry,… Read More
PCIe design workflow debuts simulation-driven virtual compliance
PCIe design complexity continues rising as the standard for intrasystem communication evolves. An urgent need for more system bandwidth drives PCIe interconnects to multi-lane, multi-link, multi-level signaling. Classical PCIe design workflows leave designers with most of the responsibility for getting the requisite… Read More
Keysight EDA at the 2024 Design Automation Conference
DAC starts June 24th and I can already feel the buzz of excitement building up as I receive updates from EDA vendors like Keysight EDA. Talking with Scott Seiden, Director Strategic Marketing, Keysight EDA Portfolio, I learned that they have the largest booth on the first floor, now that’s a statement that caught my attention. This… Read More