SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 27, 2010 — Agilent Technologies Inc.(NYSE: A) today announced the availability of an NXP Semiconductors’ design kit for RF small-signal products within Agilent’s Advanced Design System (ADS). The design kit provides NXP’s customers with easy access to comprehensive libraries of models within ADS for NXP’s RF wideband devices, diodes, junction FET’s, dual-gate MOSFET’s and MMIC’s. With the new design kit, customers can run simulations in ADS prior to moving to prototype. This significantly accelerates project development with NXP’s components and speeds time-to-market.
“We are excited to have the latest NXP design kit in ADS,” said Avery Chung, foundry program manager of Agilent’s EEsof EDA division. “Our customers now have access to the breadth of simulation capability in ADS, including yield optimization, DFM tools and the Momentum 3D planar EM simulator. They can also generate X-Parameter* models of their circuit-level designs directly from ADS, providing fast and accurate behavioral modeling. These capabilities are key to designing high-performance RF modules and RF System-in-Package (SiP) components.”
“RF design is a highly complex process,” said Ronald van Cleef, senior director and general manager, RF Small Signal, NXP Semiconductors. “The availability of our new design kit will go a long way in easing this complexity. It will also improve the overall design experience for new and existing customers using our RF small-signal products.”
The NXP RF small-signal products design kit is available for download at no charge from NXP’s Web site: www.nxp.com/models/index.html.
About Advanced Design System
Agilent’s Advanced Design System is the leading electronicmdesign automation software for RF, microwave and signal integrity applications and the industry’s leading MMIC front-to-back design platform. ADS pioneers the most innovative and commercially successful technologies, such as X-parameters* and 3D EM simulators,used by leading companies in the wireless communication & networking and aerospace & defense industries. For WiMAX(tm), LTE, multi-gigabit per second data links, radar, & satellite applications, ADS provides full, standards-based design and verification with Wireless Libraries and circuit-system-EM co-simulation in an integrated platform. Additional information is available at www.agilent.com/find/eesof-ads.
About Agilent EEsof EDA Software
Agilent EEsof EDA is the technology leader and industry’s leading supplier of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software for microwave, RF, high-frequency, high-speed, RF system, electronic system level (ESL), circuit, 3-D electromagnetic, physical design and device-modeling applications. Agilent EEsof EDA offers personal, value-priced products as well as enterprise-level solutions that save money, improve design flows and simplify EDA vendor relationships. Agilent EEsof EDA software is compatible with and is used to design the company’s test and measurement equipment. Additional information about all Agilent EDA software offerings is available at www.agilent.com/find/eesof.
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Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world’s premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company’s 17,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenues of $4.5 billion in fiscal 2009. Information about Agilent is
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