domingo, 14 de febrero de 2010

W1719 SystemVue RF System Design Kit


W1719 SystemVue RF System Design Kit

The W1719 RF System Design Kit provides an innovative simulator and use model for RF system architects. It helps create better designs, lowers project risk, and saves time and prototyping costs by quickly diagnosing RF analog effects that are difficult or impossible to characterize with other methods.

The W1719 includes dedicated RF tools (Spectrasys and WhatIF) that account for a richer variety of RF effects than SystemVue's dataflow simulator alone. By bringing these RF effects into SystemVue dataflow simulations using "RFlink", top-level system architects and baseband designers also benefit from the RF System Design Kit. It enables them to directly re-use the RF system design files of their teammates, and benefit from the added accuracy and flow convenience for their own communications physical layer design tasks.

NEW for SystemVue 2009-08: Video demo of the RFlink
Who needs the W1719 RF System Design Kit?

    * Top-level System Architects - The W1719 enables superior Baseband-RF partitioning to identify and reduce margins simultaneously in both areas, while allowing continuous BB-RF co-verification throughout a project lifecycle, from architecture & algorithms all the way to hardware test. Can your present RF tools account for Zero IF, leakage terms, non-50 ohm terminations, and other RF effects while interoperating with IP at a variety of levels of abstraction? C++, math, and HDL files, to address the latest 4G standards?
    * Baseband DSP/Math/C++ developers - The unique "RFlink" feature allows baseband designers to re-use RF Systems directly and conveniently in their native SystemVue DSP environment, without large computational burden from analog/Spice overhead, detailed RF knowledge, or incompatible formats and spreadsheets. If you have ever used "RF" blocksets, but used them in an inappropriate time-domain simulator intended for something other than RF, you urgently need to evaluate SystemVue with the W1719 option.
    * RF System Architects & Spreadsheet users - Get superior diagnostic insight, faster results, higher dynamic range and accuracy, and a much easier Use Model than Spreadsheets, Dataflow simulators, or brute-force circuit simulators (such as Spice or Harmonic Balance). Diagnose opportunities that your competitors miss, and propose practical systems quickly. Then verify with real modulation and baseband coding/decoding, connect directly to real Baseband and RF design flows, and follow through into measurement equipment, all in the same environment.
    * Workgroups, and single power-users - SystemVue unites an electronic system-level (ESL) design flow for multi-disciplined design teams in Layer 1 communications or aerospace/defense, yet also provides a cost-effective united platform that meets the needs of smaller organizations, in which 1 person may perform multiple tasks. Moreover, if you are an RF engineer who faces expanded responsibilities for overall ownership of the physical layer (not just the RF), SystemVue can help with linearization, "throughput", and other link-level characteristics, while providing a path to baseband hardware design flows.

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SystemVue 2009.08 adds new RF-DSP simulation technology, supports custom C++ to RTL design flows, and delivers new reference IP for emerging communications standards.
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Spectrasys – Block-level RF simulator for RF Architects

RF System Design Kit saves time for RF system architects by accounting for analog effects while providing one-click graphical diagnosis of RF system performance. Key to this is the Spectrasys simulator.

Spectrasys overcomes key limitations of spreadsheets, math & DSP engines, circuit simulators, and their limited model sets, which miss these analog effects entirely, or make problems very difficult to isolate and diagnose. This allows RF system designers to identify and correct poor architecture choices early in the design, before commitments are made to the frequency plan, board area, layout, bill of materials, and performance.

With more than 100 pre-defined system measurements, and dozens of power and voltage-based behavioral models, designers do not need to spend time writing homegrown code, when they can use a dedicated, graphical tool designed for the RF system design task. High-quality designs can be produced quickly, saving prototyping cycles, costly troubleshooting, and project risk.
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Spectrasys is a unique frequency-domain simulator that provides interactive, fast, diagnostic information that is nearly unobtainable with spreadsheets, dataflow, or circuit simulators
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WhatIF – RF Frequency Planner

RF System Design Kit also provides the WhatIF frequency planning tool. WhatIF helps RF system architects choose a set of Intermediate Frequencies (IFs) that maximize system performance with a minimum of filtering and design margin. It reduces a task that often requires weeks of analysis down to an afternoon using an interactive, graphical approach that is unique in the industry. It accounts for tuned bandwidths, spurs and intermodulated frequencies, and multi-band front-end architectures. It allows RF system architects to begin with a workable frequency plan, so they can concentrate on other areas of system performance.
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The WhatIF frequency planner identifies potential local oscillator (LO) frequencies that will be "spur free", and easier to implement as an RF system
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Comparison with W1417 Genesys Comms Pro
If you primarily design analog/RF circuits with low percentage of signal processing content, it is recommended that you consider the Genesys versions of the Spectrasys and WhatIF RF system tools. They may be found at:

    * W1605 WhatIF
    * W1601 Spectrasys
    * W1417 Genesys Comms Pro

If you are a communications system architect, partition mixed-signal PHYs, or if you perform a variety of baseband signal processing design tasks and require access to RF capability, RF System Design Kit makes an excellent option to your SystemVue environment.

Configurations
The W1719 RF System Design Kit can be added to any SystemVue Environment.

    * W1461 SystemVue Comms Architect
    * W1462 SystemVue FPGA Architect

It is already included in these bundles:
    * W1464 SystemVue RF System Architect
    * W1465 SystemVue System Architect

Visit the following link to view all SystemVue configurations:
    * SystemVue Product Structure & Options Summary

Por: Tirso Ramírez   C.I.: 18392099
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