Agilent Technologies Inc. and privately held Eagleware Corp., which does business as Eagleware-Elanix, have signed a definitive agreement for Agilent to acquire substantially all of the assets and business of Eagleware-Elanix, a provider of system and circuit design software for the communications industry. The transaction is subject to standard closing conditions. Financial details were not disclosed.

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"Adding Eagleware-Elanix's product line to our portfolio will provide customers with a broader range of products and services for high-frequency design and a wide range of scalable solutions for customers with varied technical needs and budgets," said Jim McGillivary, vice president and general manager of Agilent's EEsof EDA division. "Agilent has been in the high-frequency EDA software market for 20 years, and this strategic acquisition only strengthens our long-term commitment to that market."

"Joining forces with Agilent EEsof gives our mutual customers more choices," said Todd Cutler, Eagleware-Elanix president and CEO. "It also gives them access to Agilent's strong, global infrastructure."

Eagleware-Elanix, established in 1985, has thousands of customers worldwide. The company expects most of its employees to join Agilent's EEsof division. Eagleware-Elanix's key products include GENESYS , more than 10 RF and microwave component synthesis tools for filter, matching, oscillator, amplifier, PLL, mixer design and others, SystemVue, and system architecture design and analysis capabilities built around the spectral domain simulation capabilities in SPECTRASYS.