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Developer(s) | Keysight Technologies PathWave Design |
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Initial release | 1985 (then called Microwave Design System (MDS)) |
Operating system | Linux, Windows [1] |
Platform | ADS platforms |
Type | Electronic circuit simulation |
License | Proprietary |
Website | Official website |
Advanced Design System (ADS) is an electronic design automation software system produced by PathWave Design, a division of Keysight Technologies.[1] It provides an integrated design environment to designers of RF electronic products such as mobile phones,[2] pagers, wireless networks, satellite communications, radar systems, and high-speed data links.[3]
Keysight ADS supports every step of the design process — schematic capture, layout, design rule checking, frequency-domain and time-domain circuit simulation, and electromagnetic field simulation — allowing the engineer to fully characterize and optimize an RF design without changing tools.
Keysight has donated copies of the ADS software to the electrical engineering departments at many universities.[4]
The deprecated Tektronix ADS is another, unrelated, electronic design automation system composed of TekSpice and QuickIC.