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Advanced Design System

Advanced Design System (ADS) is an electronic design automation software system produced by PathWave Design, a division of Keysight Technologies. It is commonly used in the design of high-frequency RF circuits and microwave circuits. It provides tools for schematic capture, layout, design rule checking and layout versus schematic and simulation. It supports frequency-domain and time-domain circuit simulation, and electromagnetic field simulation.

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Advanced Design System
DeveloperKeysight Technologies PathWave Design
Initial release1985 (then called Microwave Design System (MDS))
Operating systemLinux, Windows [1]
PlatformADS platforms
TypeElectronic circuit simulation
LicenseProprietary
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

Advanced Design System (ADS) is an electronic design automation software system produced by PathWave Design, a division of Keysight Technologies.1 It is commonly used in the design of high-frequency RF circuits and microwave circuits. It provides tools for schematic capture2, layout, design rule checking and layout versus schematic and simulation. It supports frequency-domain and time-domain circuit simulation, and electromagnetic field simulation.

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The deprecated Tektronix ADS is another, unrelated, electronic design automation system composed of TekSpice and QuickIC.

  1. "Electronic design, test automation and measurement equipment". Keysight Technologies. Archived from the original on 2001-07-20.
  2. Keysight. "Advanced Design System". Keysight United States. Retrieved 2026-05-10.
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