About Agilent EEsof EDA
Agilent EEsof EDA is the leading supplier of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software for high-frequency system, circuit, and modeling applications. These applications include signal integrity as well as RF and microwave amplifier, mixer and filter design for commercial wireless, aerospace and defense markets.
Agilent EEsof EDA products include,
- Advanced Design System (ADS)
- Electromagnetic Professional (EMPro)
- Genesys RF and Microwave Design Software
- GoldenGate RFIC Simulation Software
- IC-CAP Device Modeling Software
- SystemVue ESL Software
Agilent EEsof EDA has a twenty-year history of technical innovation, customer support, training, and industry leadership. Sales and support offices worldwide provide responsive, local-language assistance in all aspects of sales, training, and technical support.
A Message from Bill Sullivan
"As the world's premier measurement company, Agilent provides EDA products that are an important strategic extension of measurement into our customer's designs. EDA products allow our customers to measure the effectiveness of their designs before they go to the costly step of implementation.
Having world class tools address both the virtual and physical parts of the customer design improves the accuracy of their designs, brings their products to market faster, and reduces their costs. This is a clear competitive advantage for our customers."
Bill Sullivan
President and CEO,
Agilent Technolgies
History
Agilent EEsof EDA has led the development of high-frequency EDA software for more than twenty years. The business originated in a need that Hewlett-Packard had to improve the design process for its RF and microwave instruments.
In early 1984, the now-legendary HP 8510 Network Analyzer was introduced, and several key designers from the HP 8510 team were chosen to guide the development of software for the emerging microwave and RF design marketplace.
The goal was to integrate simulation, data display, and layout tools in a way that mirrored the way engineers really worked. The result was the HP Microwave Design System (MDS), released June 1988.
In 1993, Hewlett-Packard acquired EEsof, Inc., in Westlake Village, California, a recognized leader in EDA software on the PC platform. Beginning with the Touchstone linear simulator in 1983 and adding Libra, OmniSys, and Academy (for layout), EEsof had focused on the rapidly expanding personal computer (PC) platform and on making EDA tools available to every RF and microwave engineer.
It was a natural joining of strengths for the two leading companies in high-frequency EDA, and the many customer benefits of this alliance continue today - in simulation technology, power, speed, innovation, ease of design, and worldwide customer support.
Technical Innovation
Agilent EEsof EDA leads in the development of powerful, innovative, easy-to-use high-frequency electrical design automation software - and has done so for more than twenty years.
EEsof products such as Touchstone, Libra, and OmniSys brought comparable power and ease of use to the PC platform.
Agilent EEsof's ADS supports system and RF design engineers developing all types of RF designs from simple to the most complex, from discrete RF/microwave modules to integrated MMICs for communications and aerospace/defense applications.
Customer Relationships
Agilent EEsof EDA has built upon the forty-year tradition of Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies to offer customer support that is second to none.
Agilent EEsof EDA support centers in the United States, Europe, and the Far East offer local-language, same-time-zone technical support by telephone, worldwide.
Technical support is also available by FAX and e-mail and on the world wide web, through searchable online databases of known problems and workarounds, applications examples, and product documentation.
Applications help is built into Advanced Design System by means of an Examples directory that contains more than 200 working examples of circuit and system designs. Tutorial examples are also included.
Training classes covering both design topics and use of the software are conducted in dedicated Agilent EEsof EDA classrooms worldwide, onsite, and by means of the world wide web.
Agilent EEsof has been training engineers for many years and has perfected the process. A combination of lectures and labs provides hands-on practical experience in an accelerated learning environment. For more information, refer to Agilent EEsof EDA Customer Education and Services.
Locations
Agilent EEsof EDA has four main facilities worldwide for research, software design, development, and testing, customer support, marketing, sales, manufacturing and distribution.
- Santa Rosa, California, USA - Agilent EEsof EDA shares a 195-acre site about 60 miles (95 km) north of San Francisco with several key Agilent Technologies high-frequency instrument and component design and manufacturing operations. This same-site intimacy among designers of high-frequency measurement products, high-frequency semiconductor design and manufacturing, and software engineers is unique in the EDA industry.
- Westlake Village, California, USA - Agilent EEsof EDA continues the strong tradition of user-interface and circuit and simulation advances that were begun by EEsof, Inc. Located in Southern California, Westlake Village is about 45 miles (70 km) northwest of Los Angeles.
- Ghent, Belgium - Agilent EEsof EDA has a staff of software development engineers extending the Momentum Planar EM solver and related products and marketing and technical support staff supporting Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and South Africa.
- Singapore - Agilent EEsof EDA engineers at the Agilent Technologies Singapore Microelectronics Modeling Center work closely with customers to provide accurate characterization and continually updated libraries of active and passive devices.
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies is the world's premier measurement company. Agilent provides core electronic and bio-analytical measurement tools to advance the electronics, communications, life science research, environmental and petrochemical industries.
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