Keysight Technologies enhances PathWave Software Suite

Keysight Technologies, Inc. announced it has expanded the company’s PathWave Software Suite with new and enhanced capabilities.  The new PathWave solutions enable engineers to remove computational limitations across the workflow, with cloud processing clusters, to improve designs and device reliability, while reducing project risk.

Design and test engineers are struggling with complexity limitations that require weeks, if not months, crunching data which can significantly slow the development process and market introduction. Keysight’s PathWave, an open, scalable, and predictive software platform, offers fast and efficient data processing, sharing and analysis at every stage in the product development workflow. Combining design software, instrument control and application-specific test software, it enables engineers to address increasing design, test, and measurement complexity and develop optimal electronic products.

Further strengthening the capabilities of PathWave, Keysight is launching 5 new and enhanced software solutions that leverage the power of cloud processing to address computational limitations throughout the design process, including:

PathWave Advanced Design System (ADS) Software 2021. Now equipped with design cloud simulation services, PathWave ADS 2021 software reduces simulation time, increases simulation test coverage and provides access to scalable hardware resources in the cloud.  This new software solution eliminates barriers to developing high performance hardware products by enabling design engineers for mobile and computer chipsets to perform compute intense electromagnetic simulations with on-premise clusters or scalable cloud hardware and tackle large electromagnetic simulations that were previously unsolvable due to resource limitations.

PathWave Compliance Test Software. System test engineers characterizing compliance standards for mobile and computer chipsets need to perform rapid compliance tests without the added expense of purchasing hardware. The new architecture of PathWave Compliance Test software offers measurement disaggregation and integrates seamlessly into a test automation workflow along with test automation and data analytics software, enabling system test engineers to speed transmitter compliance tests by separating physical measurement from data processing in the cloud and run signal acquisition and measurement in parallel rather than in series reducing overall test time.

PathWave Test Automation software enables engineers to execute with speed, scale and ease with open and modular software.  However, test engineers required to use multiple instruments have an added layer of difficulty resulting from the complex programming needed to connect these instruments.  The new enhanced version of this software enables test engineers to easily optimize multiple instruments setups with resource arbiter and timing analyzer tools and seamlessly integrate with existing automated test system workflow to minimize setup time while allowing for scalability.

PathWave Test and Measurement Analytics software provides a simple and powerful user interface for data visualization and analytics. It captures and stores test data with real-time access, can import data from various sources in multiple formats, and integrate data analytics into test processes with the open Application Program Interface (API)

Enhancements to PathWave Test and Measurement Analytics software now enables design validation test (DVT) and production engineers to visualize and analyze measurement data in the cloud without the need to create spreadsheets. As a result, these engineers gain greater insight into data with a scalable, high-performance data repository to speed engineering decisions.
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