Transform Your Workflows with Python APIs

Explore the resources on this page to discover how Python APIs in Keysight EDA platforms such as ADS and IC-CAP can transform your workflows, for efficient measurements, design, enterprise, and AI applications, including Machine Learning.

Python Automation for Developers

Who Can Benefit from Keysight Python Automation?

Personal Productivity

Personal Productivity

For End-users & Designers
who need to design hardware products more efficiently

Enterprise Automation

Enterprise Automation

For EDA Workflow Developers 
who write software that streamlines workflows for a team

Exploring AI/ML

Exploring AI/ML

For Data Scientists 
who transform insights with applied Machine Learning and AI

New Use Models Enabled

  • Menu-based Task automation 
  • Interactive Jupyter-style command line interface 
  • Standalone apps 

New Use Models Enabled

  • Scalable verifications 
  • Multi-tool workflows
  • Enterprise orchestration 
  • Data and IP Management and Engineering Lifecycle 

New Use Models Enabled

  • Trusted Training Data generation
  • Multi-domain Optimization
  • Domain awareness for AI/ML development

Loadpull and ANN modeling

ANN Modeling

  • Turn discrete data into executable models
  • Smoother, continuous interpolation from sparse, irregular, or multi-dimensional data
  • Faster behavioral execution

Personal Productivity

Automate common tasks and drive ADS from its Python console, from a Jupyter notebook, or from your custom app.

Python use cases in ADS 2025

8 Common ADS Use Cases

Run inside ADS, or external "headless"

Run inside ADS, or external "headless"

Create workspace, libraries, schematics, layouts, symbols

Create workspace, libraries, schematics, layouts, symbols

Modify and Edit existing designs, Set or change instance parameters

Modify and Edit existing designs, Set or change instance parameters

Work with Vars, MeasEqns

Work with Vars, MeasEqns

Create Custom Menus, Add-Ons, GUIs

Create Custom Menus, Add-Ons, GUIs

Extract Advanced ANN Models

Extract Advanced ANN Models

Create + Modify Substrates

Create + Modify Substrates

Create + Modify Data Displays

Create + Modify Data Displays

Drive ADS externally, for machine learning

Python APIs in ADS

Machine Learning

Use Python to operate ADS without human input, to do Training Data generation for Machine Learning models, and AI research.

ADS Automation using Python Jupyter Notebooks for Machine Learning

Enterprise Automation

Use Python to streamline complex workflows and perform global optimization.

Python workflow success with RFPro

Streamline and automate complex workflows

Keysight ADS Python Cheat Sheets

Workflow Automation in Keysight ADS
Workflow Automation in Keysight ADS

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