Agilent ADS

Description

From Keysight Technologies' Website: Agilent Advanced Design System (ADS) is the leading electronic design automation software for RF, microwave, and high speed digital applications. ADS pioneers the most innovative and commercially successful technologies, such as X-parameters and 3D EM simulators, used by leading companies in the wireless communication & networking and aerospace & defense industries. For WiMAX™, LTE, multi-gigabit per second data links, radar, & satellite applications, ADS provides full, standards-based design and verification with Wireless Libraries and circuit-system-EM co-simulation in an integrated platform.

Version

2009u1

Authorized Users

CIRCE account holders
RRA account holders
SC account holders

Platforms

CIRCE cluster
RRA cluster
SC cluster

Modules

Agilent ADS requires the following module file to run:

apps/ads/2009u1

See Modules for more information.

Running Agilent ADS on CIRCE/SC

The Agilent ADS user guide is essential to understanding the application and making the most of it. The guide and this page should help you to get started with your simulations. Please refer to the Documentation section for a link to the guide.

Note on CIRCE: Make sure to run your jobs from your $WORK directory!
Note: Scripts are provided as examples only. Your SLURM executables, tools, and options may vary from the example below. For help on submitting jobs to the queue, see our SLURM User’s Guide.

Multiprocessor Graphical ADS

Establishing a GUI connection to CIRCE/SC

To use Agilent ADS, you will need to connect to CIRCE/SC with GUI redirection, either using:

CIRCE/SC Desktop Environment
SSH with X11 redirection
- If connecting from OSX or Linux via SSH, please ensure that you use one of the following commands to properly redirect X11:
  - ```
  [user@localhost ~]$ ssh -X circe.rc.usf.edu
```
  or
- ```
[user@localhost ~]$ ssh -X sc.rc.usf.edu
```

Once connected to CIRCE, you can open Jmol using the steps below:

[user@login0 ~]$ module load apps/ads/2009u1
[user@login0 ~]$ ads

Using Design Kits

To load currently installed design kits, click !DesignKit->List Design Kits, and enable the ones you would like to use.

To load you own design kits, follow the instructions below.

Start ADS and install the design kit:
1. From the ADS main window, click DesignKit->Install Design Kits
2. Click Browse (next to Path) and locate the design kit library folder
3. The rest of the information will fill in automatically
4. Select USER LEVEL
5. Click OK and the design kit will be installed.
The new library design kit can now be run; the components can be selected from either the component pallet or component library.

Documentation

Home Page, User Guides, and Manuals

Agilent ADS Home Page
- http://www.keysight.com/en/pc-1297113/advanced-design-system-ads

More Job Information

See the following for more detailed job submission information:

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs with Agilent ADS to the IT Help Desk: rc-help@usf.edu