Keysight Technologies has announced the latest release of GoldenGate software, the industry's most trusted and proven simulation, analysis and verification solution for large-scale RFIC circuit design. The GoldenGate 2015.01 offers new and enhanced capabilities designed to improve productivity and efficiency for silicon RFIC designers.
GoldenGate 2015.01 features a number of enhancements to its simulator, including Fast Envelope 3 support for envelope tracking modulation applications and support for multiple, non-harmonically-related frequency dividers. Support for the frequency dividers enables designers to more accurately predict receiver crosstalk, which is common in LTE-A Carrier Aggregation simulation. GoldenGate 2015.01 also features a new multi-threaded sparse matrix solver that enables 10 to 50 percent faster transient simulations and enables designers to easily access the GoldenGate simulator from ADS with GoldenGate-in-ADS and the new ADS RFIC cockpit, which is available in ADS 2015.
Additional improvements available in GoldenGate 2015.01 include:
- Faster crystal oscillator startup performance – five times faster out of the box, with a settled solution time of less than 20 periods versus greater than 10,000 for a full transient analysis
- X-parameter* simulation and data file improvements
- Improved Envelope Transient Noise analysis efficiency, up to a 1.5 times speed-up in envelope tracking noise
- Improved multi-threading and refactoring for harmonic balance noise, up to a 2.5 times speedup
- Improved oscillator analysis performance, up to four times faster on the ring oscillator plus a divide by 32 circuit
