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Agilent EEsof EDA Newsletter - Product and Application News 
Keep tabs on the latest product and application news and review the archives of the Agilent EEsof EDA Newsletter.

Newsletter 2013-05-14

 
ESL Design Notebook Blog 
The blog home of Electronic System-Level Design at Agilent highlighting applications, news, and opinions from a cross-discipline, system-level approach to design and verification in communications and defense.

Journal 2013-04-02

 
Enabling Simulation and Test of Custom OFDM Signals 
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has become attractive for many current and emerging commercial applications because it provides a combination of data throughput, scalability, and robustness.

Article 2013-04-01

 
Designing Multiple-Throw Switches in a MMIC Configuration 
A Chip Design article by P. Sreenivasa Rao, design flow verification expert at Agilent Technologies.

Article 2013-01-31

 
EDN's 19th Annual Innovation Awards Finalists: Agilent's PNA-X NVNA 

Article 2012-11-30

 
Enabling Fast Characterization of PA Performance with Modulated Signals 
Microwave Product Digest (MPD) featured article written by Agilent Technologies' Andy Howard.

Journal 2012-10-15

 
Article: COTS Gear Generates Multi-Emitter Test Signals 
This article discusses COTS test hardware and software being used to create multi-emitter test signals using ESL design simulation software and wideband AWGs

Article 2012-09-27

 
Design, simulation and measurement automation 
Link to Electronic Products and Technology article discussing the marrying of both electronic design automation (EDA) tools and processes with measurement for system level design and verification.

Article 2012-08-10

 
Testing Radar and EW Systems for the Real-World 
The solutions described in this Microwave Journal article do more than address a wide range of present and future radar systems: They also help overcome organizational hurdles.

Article 2012-07-12

 
Product How To: Design a polar frequency discriminator 
Polar frequency discriminators (PFD) are widely used in radar and direction-finding applications to determine the unknown frequency of incoming pulses. This article explains how to design the RF portion of a PFD, over a frequency range of 2 to 8 GHz, using Agilent’s ADS software.

Article 2012-06-08

 
How to design a high-performance scope: One team’s approach 
EE Times Design Article on how an Agilent Technologies design team discovers some valuable lessons that could prove useful for any designer or design team looking for success on their next project.

Article 2012-06-07

 
Sorting Through EM Simulators 
Matching an electromagnetic simulator to a particular application requires an understanding of the different simulation technologies at the heart of these software tools.

Article 2012-05-25

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Tackling MIMO Design and Test Challenges for 802.11ac WLAN 
This article from Microwave Journal shows how the system engineer can use system simulation to help understand the design performance and design requirements needed to achieve transmitter system-level metrics such as EVM.

Article 2012-03-11

 
Using Software Defined Instruments to Address the Mixed-Signal Test Challenges of Today’s Software 
Link to a NASA Tech Brief article which states to ensure successful operation of SDR designs requires use of modern instruments capable of bridging the digital-analog divide, while also addressing any challenges stemming from use of the SDR technology itself

Article 2012-02-01

 
Defining the 4G PHY Architecture Design Challenges 
EE Times design article (Part 1) on defining the 4G PHY architecture design challenges.

Journal 2011-12-05

 
Using SystemVue to Overcome 4G Challenges 
EE Times design article (Part 2) on using SystemVue to overcome 4G challenges.

Journal 2011-12-04

 
Integrated Solutions for Testing Wireless Communication Systems 
IEEE Communications Magazine, Topics in Radio Communications article on SystemVue test solutions, June 2011.

Article 2011-06-02

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The Coming of Age of the Software Communications Architecture 
Microwave Jounral article reprint on Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology, development tools for complex waveforms and radio applications in aerospace/defense and commercial applications.

Article 2011-04-24

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Multichannel scopes enable MIMO RF testing 
This article discusses troubleshooting techniques with time-coherent multichannel scopes and 89600 VSA software to gain insight into error mechanisms affecting their hardware EVM performance and system-level RF transmitter performance budgets.

Article 2011-04-12

 
Tackling the Mixed-signal Testing Challenges of SDR 
Software-defined radios (SDR) utilize a combination of FPGAs, DSPs and analog/RF designs to achieve the radio’s system performance.

Article 2011-03-09

 
An Innovative and Integrated Approach to III-V Circuit Design 
This article explains how to drive III-V circuit design improvement by unified modeling, Design of Experiments (DOE) simulation, and Pareto Analysis

Article 2011-01-10

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Defining a New Methodology for Radar System Design 
Article from Microwave Product Digest, October 2010, discussing the use of analysis suites for the design of advanced digital signal processing techniques.

Feature Story 2010-10-01

 
X-parameters Aid MMIC Design 
Microwaves & RF article on how models based X-parameters can provide insights into the linear and nonlinear behavior of key components in wireless systems, including power amplifiers and mixers.

Journal 2010-07-30

 
Solving the RFIC Design for Yield and Verification Dilemma 
Microave Journal article on the role and evolution of simulation-based performance verification and yield for today’s highly integrated RFICs for digital wireless communications.

Journal 2010-07-15

 
Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. "LTE and WiMAX™ Layer 1 Compliance using SystemVue" 
Mindspeed, a leading IC provider to the wireless communications infrastructure market, uses Agilent SystemVue to bring measurement-grade verification inside the baseband design process.

Case Study 2010-04-14

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