rosa california united states area served worldwide products rf & microwave design design & simulation of high speed digital electronic system level esl design device modeling website keysight eesof eesof i s f eesof ; electronic engineering software today known as keysight eesof eda 1 is a provider of electronic design automation eda software that helps engineers design products such as cellular phones wireless networks radar satellite communications systems and high speed digital wireline infrastructure . applications include electronic system level esl high speed digital rf mixed signal device modeling rf and microwave design for commercial wireless aerospace and defense markets . contents 1 history 2 products 3 see also 4 notes 5 external links history edit eesof was founded in 1983 by an entrepreneur charles j. chuck abronson and a former compact software employee bill childs . 2 3 4 eesof s first products included high frequency circuit simulators such as touchstone and libra . although the touchstone simulator itself is obsolete 5 its eponymous file format lives on . eesof was acquired by hewlett packard in 1993 6 and later spun out first as part of agilent technologies in 1999 and then as part of keysight technologies thus becoming keysight eesof eda . 7 after the merger of hp and eesof the eesof products were combined with the hp simulator microwave design system mds . hp s own entry mds had been introduced in 1985 . it was developed in house and comprised a linear circuit simulator with integrated schematic capture and graphical layout with back annotation a first for rf eda software . mds was offered on unix workstations from hp sun and apollo as well on the pc . prior to the introduction of mds hp had a marketing relationship with eesof and sold touchstone software on hp platforms such as the series 200 but not on the pc . the marketing relationship ended after the introduction of hp s mds product . the hp and eesof harmonic balance simulators also had parallel lives before the merger . hp funded an employee ken kundert to do a phd at uc berkeley . for his thesis he developed spectre the first harmonic balance prototype . some sources argue who that since berkeley had an open policy to all of its research work eesof was able to learn about the project and actually released a product libra before hp was able to commercialise it in mds . libra was a play on the latin word libra for balance or scales . however other sources say that libra was developed completely independently . 8 9 in any case kundert left hp to join cadence design systems shortly after receiving his phd . there he developed spectre and spectrerf . in 1997 hp acquired optimization systems associates inc. osa founded by john bandler in 1983 . 10 osa thereby became part of hp eesof . osa s products included harpe and osa90 hope featuring the world s then most powerful harmonic balance optimizer as well as empipe empipe3d empipeexpress and empath . osa s optimization technology and the osa s empipe family became the foundation of hfss designer and momentum optimization . this integration into hp s electromagnetic product line consolidated a paradigm shift in hp s offering of their tools a shift from analysis to design . longer term plans of the acquisition included leveraging osa technology across hp s circuit and device simulation product lines . on january 7 2014 agilent announced a plan to spin off its electronic measurement divisions including eesof as a separate company keysight technologies . 11 products edit platforms advanced design system ads rf microwave and high speed digital eda software for wireless communications and networking aerospace and defense and signal integrity applications empro electromagnetic professional 3d em platform that integrates 3d em simulation and circuit simulation 12 genesys rf and microwave design for circuit board and subsystem designers 13 systemvue electronic system level design tool for system architects and algorithm developers to change the physical layer phy of wireless and aerospace defense communications systems 14 goldengate supersedes rf design environment rfic rf mixed signal simulator 15 integrated circuit characterization and analysis program ic cap model builder program mbp model quality assurance mqa device modeling characterization and validation 16 em solvers momentum 3d planar em simulator that uses frequency domain method of moments mom technology . available with the ads genesys and goldengate platforms . fem element formerly electromagnetic design system full wave 3d simulator frequency domain . available with the ads and empro platforms . fdtd element full 3d time domain simulator to analyze 3d structures . available with the empro platform . the goldengate product was added with the xpedion acquisition . the systemvue and genesys products were added as a result of the acquisition of eagleware elanix in 2005 . 17 18 in turn eagleware elanix was a result of the merger of eagleware and elanix . 19 eagleware itself was founded in 1985 by randy rhea . 20 the mbp and mqa platforms were added with eesof s acquisition of accelicon technologies . 21 see also edit list of eda companies comparison of eda software notes edit keysight eesof eda home page charles j. abronson bio at cap wireless history of eesof at microwaves 101 history of compact at microwaves 101 it was replaced by e8881 ads linear simulator which was later incorporated into w2200 ads core hewlett packard to acquire eesof mobile phone news sept 13 1993 keysight eesof eda home page russ henke . agilent eesof eda part i . edacafe.com . russ henke . agilent eesof eda part ii . edacafe.com . hp acquires optimization systems associates expands cae software portfolio . agilent technologies reveals name of electronic measurement spin off company keysight technologies reflects ability to unlock measurement insights for engineers press release . january 7 2014 . keysight eesof eda empro page keysight eesof genesys page keysight eesof eda systemvue page keysight eesof eda goldengate page keysight eesof eda ic cap page agilent technologies completes acquisition of eagleware elanix microwave journal speaks with todd cutler senior manager agilent eesof eda interview with todd cutler ceo eagleware elanix by jack horgan eda cafe history of circuit busters star superstar and eagleware at microwaves 101 agilent technologies completes acquisition of accelicon technologies solutions for semiconductor device modeling . agilent technologies . feb 21 2012 . retrieved june 25 2012 . external links edit eesof.com official web site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title eesof & oldid 739631252 categories electronic design automation companiessoftware companies based in californiahidden categories all articles with specifically marked weasel worded phrasesarticles with specifically marked weasel worded phrases from october 2011 navigation menu personal tools not logged 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