| Advanced Design System | |
| Developer: | Keysight Technologies PathWave Design |
| Released: | 1985 (then called Microwave Design System (MDS)) |
| Platform: | ADS platforms |
| Operating System: | Linux, Windows https://docs.keysight.com/display/engdocads/ADS+2024+Update+2.0+System+Requirements |
| Genre: | Electronic circuit simulation |
| License: | Proprietary |
Advanced Design System (ADS) is an electronic design automation software system produced by PathWave Design, a division of Keysight Technologies.[1] It provides an integrated design environment to designers of RF electronic products such as mobile phones,[2] pagers, wireless networks, satellite communications, radar systems, and high-speed data links.[3]
Keysight ADS supports every step of the design process — schematic capture, layout, design rule checking, frequency-domain and time-domain circuit simulation, and electromagnetic field simulation — allowing the engineer to fully characterize and optimize an RF design without changing tools.
Keysight has donated copies of the ADS software to the electrical engineering departments at many universities.[4]
The deprecated Tektronix ADS is another, unrelated, electronic design automation system composed of TekSpice and QuickIC.