Agilent Technologies has announced that the SystemVue
version 2009.08 features new capabilities including an automated
link that unlocks RF-DSP co-design and a Custom Flow for
"Model-Based Design". The SystemVue 2009.08 Coupled
with new IP reference libraries for DVB-S2, mmWave WPAN
(IEEE 802.15.3c) and 3GPP LTE, to accelerate the design
of high-performance PHY signal processing in both aerospace/defense
and wireless applications.
The SystemVue 2009.08 adds a new RF-DSP simulation technology
that supports custom C++ to RTL design flows, and delivers
new reference IP for emerging communications standards,
and the Agilent's automated RFlink embeds RF architectures
into a baseband DSP environment, for a unified top-down
team approach to system design. Using it, baseband designers
can re-use an RF system architect's own IP to see the impact
of additional RF effects (e.g., internal impedance mismatch,
nonlinearities and reverse propagation) within their native
DSP environment, verify the robustness of their algorithms,
and reduce overall design margins.
"SystemVue's new RFlink feature improves the accuracy
and convenience of modeling the RF portion of signal processing
chains, without burdening DSP architects with clunky analog
tools or requiring specialized RF expertise," said
Frank Ditore, product manager of Agilent's SystemVue. "By
allowing the RF, system and baseband design teams to share
a common environment for concurrent design, the link enables
superior top-down RF-baseband partitioning and reduces overall
design margins."
The SystemVue 2009.08 is now capable of importing and encapsulating
a high-performance signal-processing IP flow, and verifying
models at each level of abstraction either at the communications
system level or a lower hardware level. This integration
makes SystemVue a cost-effective, open, vendor-neutral platform
for custom applications, such as radar, software-defined
radio and homeland security.
The other key features of SystemVue 2009.08 are algorithmic
references for physical layer standards that allow to verify
signal processing algorithms and hardware implementation
before test equipment or PHYs are available and includes,
The W1915 mmWave WPAN baseband verification library, in
support of IEEE 802.15.3c
The W1914 DVB-S2 baseband verification library for satellite-based
digital video broadcast systems, in support of the SatComm
community's needs
Formal simulator support for 3GPP LTE closed-loop "throughput"
measurements using HARQ, based on LTE version 8.6 (March
2009)
Application support for GPS, Galileo, ZigBee and other formats.
Price: Starts at approximately $15,000
Availability: Now available for download at www.agilent.com/find/eesof-systemvue
A free 30-day evaluation is available at www.agilent.com/find/eesof-systemvue-evaluation
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