Keysight’s GoldenGate 2015.01 delivers new and enhanced capabilities that improve productivity and efficiency for Silicon RFIC designers.

GoldenGate-in-ADS & New RFIC Cockpit

• RFIC designer’s favorite simulator in their favorite platform
• Access to GoldenGate from an ADS schematic and expands ADS “schematic control block” use model to a complete RFIC cockpit
• Capacity and performance benefits of the GoldenGate RFIC Simulation Software native in ADS, when using interoperable PDKs.
• Proven Silicon RFIC simulator for larger-scale integrated RF circuit design
• Access to unique capabilities like Fast Yield Contributor (FYC) analysis in the ADS environment
• ADS RFIC Cockpit: Import simulation states from ADE or set up simulations directly in a familiar environment
• Design and simulate on Windows as well as Linux

Figure 1. NEW - "GoldenGate-in-ADS" is the RFIC designer's favorite simulator in their favorite platform.

Figure 2. Importing ADE simulation states using the ADS RFIC Cockpit helps with your migration.

GoldenGate Simulator Enhancements

• New simulation support for multiple, non-harmonically-related frequency dividers, for use in accurately predicting receiver crosstalk common in LTE-A Carrier Aggregation simulation
• Fast Envelope Level 3 support for envelope tracking modulation applications
• Faster crystal oscillator startup performance. 5x faster out of the box performance. Settled solution in <20 periods. vs. 10,000+ for a full transient analysis
• Multi-Threaded sparse matrix solver (10-50% faster transient simulations)
• X-parameter simulation and data file improvements
• Improve efficiency of Envelope Transient (ET) Noise analysis (up to 1.5X speed-up in ET Noise)
• Improved multi-threading & refactoring for HB Noise (up to 2.5X speedup)
• Oscillator Analysis performance improvement: 4x faster on ring oscillator + divide by 32 circuit

Figure 3. Improved Fast Envelope Tracking level 3.

Figure 4. Now simulate designs that include up to 3 oscillator-frequency divider chains.

Models

• NXP Semiconductors SimKit models, version 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3
• BSIM 4.7
• HICUM 2.32
• HICUM 2.33
• HiSIM HV 2.0, 2.01, 2.1
• MOSVAR 1.2

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