Keysight Delivers New Electrical-Optical-Electrical System Design Workflow with VPI Optical Link
May 11 2020 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
PathWave Advanced Design System eliminates
barriers to developing high performance hardware products
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology
company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments
accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced a
new simulation workflow capability that seamlessly connects
PathWave Advanced Design System (ADS)
with VPI Design Suite from VPIphotonics, enabling designers to
predict the signal integrity of Electrical-Optical-Electrical data
links.
Data centers transport vast amounts of data using electrical
Ethernet connections, however with the growing demand for greater
throughput, many connections are moving to optical fiber and more
sophisticated modulation schemes to deliver increased capacity. As
a result, design margins and complex equalization are needed to
maintain data link performance.
Keysight’s new VPI Optical Link solution in PathWave ADS
simulates and optimizes design parameters concurrently in
electrical and optical domains eliminating key barriers to
developing high performance hardware products. It can predict the
data link BER (Bit Error Rate) and understand how electrical design
choices will interplay with optical design choices to deliver a
reliable system design.
“We’re excited to partner with VPIphotonics to provide an
industry-leading solution to the market. It seamlessly combines
both of our companies’ simulation domain expertise to provide a
powerful and comprehensive solution to a real customer challenge,”
said Tom Lillig, general manager of the PathWave Software and
Solution team at Keysight Technologies.
The defining technology advancement in this new solution is the
electro-optical workflow which can process millions of bits in
minutes for accurate BER prediction. As a result of this rapid
simulation, system architects can investigate link performance
characteristics with varied fiber lengths, effects of
distortion/dispersion, optical drive level, electrical transmitter
and receiver equalization settings, as well as electrical channel
design including trace routing and the design of PCB vias.
“Engineers have a wide variety of constraints when developing
optical interconnect solutions for intra and inter datacenter
applications,” stated André Richter, general manager of
VPIphotonics. “With this new seamless design flow linking
simulations of the electronic circuits at the transceivers with
simulations of the optical fiber link, we are proud to jointly
deliver a unique solution that offers the investigation and
optimization of overall system performance.”
The new solution will be demonstrated during Keysight’s upcoming
virtual seminar on May 19th 2020: Registration Page for Virtual
Optical Networking Innovations - Part 1
About Keysight Technologies
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) is a leading technology
company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments
accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Keysight's
solutions optimize networks and bring electronic products to market
faster and at a lower cost with offerings from design simulation,
to prototype validation, to manufacturing test, to optimization in
networks and cloud environments. Customers span the worldwide
communications ecosystem, aerospace and defense, automotive,
energy, semiconductor and general electronics end markets. Keysight
generated revenues of $4.3B in fiscal year 2019. More information
is available at www.keysight.com.
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Additional Information
Images for Keysight’s new VPI Optical Link feature in PathWave
ADS are available at
https://www.keysight.com/us/en/about/newsroom/images/keysight-delivers-new-electrical-optical-electrical-system-desig.html.
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