Software helps ensure compliance with FCC spectral emission rules
Software verifies phased-array hybrid beamforming between the base station and handset
in 28-GHz mmWave channels with Verizon-KT 5G signals
SANTA ROSA, Calif., Sept. 14, 2017
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) today announced the latest release of its SystemVue
electronic system level (ESL) software. Offering unique phased-array antenna and other 5G
functionality, Keysight EEsof EDA's SystemVue 2017 provides
designers with the industry's first 5G design and verification process.
SystemVue is the industry's premier simulation platform for system design and verification.
The software enables users to combine existing baseband, RF and channel models for evaluation
of the entire system. SystemVue 2017 allows designers to accurately design phased-array antennas
for 5G mobile networks.
Unlike other tools on the market, SystemVue 2017 can account for RF effects like S-parameters
of off-the-shelf phase shifters and attenuators, and X- or Sys-parameters of nonlinear amplifiers
and mixers. With this capability, users can now characterize radiation of spurious intermodulation
signals from the array in terms of direction and power. This information helps designers avoid
interference with nearby antennas and to comply with FCC spectral emission rules.
SystemVue 2017 also adds functionality not possible with other 5G electronic design automation
(EDA) solutions on the market today. The software allows designers to create pre-5G-compliant
reference designs and validate hybrid RF-digital beamforming in 100-GHz millimeter wave (mmWave)
channels. Support for Verizon and KT 5G wireless standards, and RF phased-array and multi-antenna
diversity beamforming, is also provided. A Verizon-KT 5G library provides designers with a
head start into the high-margin 5G market, by enabling pre-5G development now, and development
with the 5G New Radio standard, once it becomes available.
"Keysight provides the largest array of design and measurement solutions being applied
to wireless research and development," said Charles Plott, marketing and planning manager
of Keysight Technologies' Design Engineer Software organization. "Our powerful new 5G functionality
in SystemVue 2017 is just another in that long line of solutions and a prime example of how
we are innovating to help accelerate deployment of the fifth generation of mobile wireless."
Additional Software Enhancements
SystemVue 2017 provides important new software features designed to enable early electronic
product design based on emerging standards with high margin and volume potential:
New automotive radar library with unique pedestrian channel models
Enhanced LTE-Advanced baseband verification library for validating NB-IoT product designs
802.11ax enhancement to the WLAN baseband verification library for designing even higher
speed Wi-Fi networking
Keysight EEsof EDA is the leading supplier of electronic design automation software for
microwave, RF, high-frequency, high-speed digital, RF system, electronic system level, circuit,
3-D electromagnetic, physical design and device-modeling applications. More information is
available at www.keysight.com/find/eesof.
About Keysight Technologies
Keysight Technologies (NYSE: KEYS) is a global electronic measurement technology and market
leader helping to transform its customers' measurement experience through innovations in wireless,
modular, and software solutions. Keysight's electronic measurement instruments, systems, software
and services are used in the design, development, manufacture, installation, deployment and
operation of electronic equipment. The business had revenues of $2.9 billion in fiscal year
2015. Information about Keysight is available at www.keysight.com.
Additional information about Keysight Technologies is available in the newsroom at
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