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Agilent EEsof has announced that it is shipping GENESYS 2007, the next major release of its GENESYS EDA software. GENESYS 2007 features LiveReport, a new design capability that streamlines the user interface and automates the documentation process for easy communication and reuse for RF and microwave component and subsystem designers.

LiveReport helps designers overcome the complexities of working with large, multi-design projects. It captures living views of schematics, layouts, graphs and equations onto a single interactive document. Clicking on any image on a LiveReport page allows the designer to modify schematics, change markers and plots, and zoom layouts from a dashboard-like interface. When the design is complete, the LiveReport page can be printed at high resolution or cut and paste into Microsoft Windows applications. A print preview function offers complete control over the appearance of the report.

Key simulator enhancements include:

• 17 new nonlinear device models that enable RF power amplifier design, microwave downconverters, high-speed analog and wireline applications.
• Improved phase noise in the harmonic balance simulator and an enhancement to Spectrasys to predict the RF system noise effects of phase-locking many local oscillators to a common, coherent frequency reference; these enable high-performance receiver architectures with breakthrough sensitivity and throughput.
• New sources, measurements and defined "paths" in Spectrasys, which characterize large-signal distortion in complex architectures under sophisticated, multi-format signal conditions with interferers.

To make GENESYS 2007 run faster, the new EDA software offers dozens of new toolbar buttons and right-click operations that simplify complex tasks down to single button-clicks, saving time. Other features include common tasks such as on-screen parameter editing, saving parts to a custom library, deactivating components, and turning off window visibility to maximize the working schematic area.

GENESYS 2007 is available now for immediate download. The fully functional GENESYS Core suite is priced at $3995, including the first 12 months of support. Available GENESYS software suites include four bundles that are priced under $10,000.