Keysight Technologies’ SystemVue 2017 Simulation Software Enables Industry’s First 5G Design, Verification Process

• 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

About Keysight EEsof EDA Software

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 in 5G

The development of 5G depends on up-to-date tools that let designers easily explore new signals, scenarios and topologies. Keysight’s 5G solutions are ready to enable deeper insights as development evolves with the standard. In design and test, Keysight is helping industry leaders innovate across new and existing technologies as they transform ideas into reality. Additional information about Keysight’s 5G design, test and measurement solutions is available at www.keysight.com/find/5G.

About Keysight Technologies

Keysight Technologies is a leading technology company that helps its engineering, enterprise and service provider customers optimize networks and bring electronic products to market faster and at a lower cost. Keysight’s solutions go where the electronic signal goes, from design simulation, to prototype validation, to manufacturing test, to optimization in networks and cloud environments. Customers span the worldwide communications ecosystem, aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, semiconductor and general electronics end markets. Keysight generated revenues of $2.9B in fiscal year 2016. In April 2017, Keysight acquired Ixia, a leader in network test, visibility, and security. More information is available at www.keysight.com.

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