According to Keysight, each workflow becomes a repeatable methodology that can be shared across teams, reused, and driven by AI.
SANTA ROSA, Calif.—A new capability within Keysight Technologies, Inc.’s RF (radio frequency) Circuit Simulation Professional software enables engineers to capture their design process on an executable whiteboard. According to Keysight, the capability replicates the engineer’s decision process, capturing simulations, optimizations, decision trees, and design parameters built on prior analyses.
The Keysight RF Circuit Simulation Professional executable whiteboard captures the RF design experience and generates Python scripts automatically to execute steps individually or as a complete workflow. (Image: Keysight/Business Wire)
“Each step generates editable Python code that can be saved, shared, and redeployed across Keysight Advanced Design System (ADS), Cadence Virtuoso, and Synopsys Custom Compiler environments,” the company said in a May release.
As RF organizations face a looming talent gap, McKinsey projects the semiconductor industry will need 88,000 engineers by 2029. In RF design, the challenge is even more acute. Simulation methodologies spanning multiple physics domains can take years to master, and critical expertise is often lost when senior engineers leave, the company said.
“Design teams face inefficient workflows, simulation bottlenecks, and knowledge barriers,” according to the release.
Keysight said its RF Circuit Simulation Professional lets engineers construct their workflow on a visual whiteboard or in auto-generated Python scripts. Each step executes simulations, optimizations, and design decisions in sequence, with support for decision-based loops and parameter settings. Each workflow becomes a repeatable methodology that can be shared across teams, reused, and driven by AI. Design review and tape-out steps that previously required manual setup for each iteration now run automatically.
“RF design expertise is leaving the industry faster than it can be replaced,” said Keysight EDA General Manager Nilesh Kamdar, in the release. “The simulation knowledge that senior engineers have accrued cannot be transferred through documentation alone. Design teams now have a way to capture that experience as a visual, executable, reusable workflow. The structured data this generates, and the underlying Python APIs, are the first step toward fully automated, AI/ML-driven RF design.”