Agilent Technologies announces next major release of Advanced Design System software

PALO ALTO, Calif., May 30, 2006

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the next major release of its core high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA) software. The new Advanced Design System (ADS) 2006A features design links from Agilent's GENESYS software for RF architecture applications to generate complex, high-frequency system and circuit designs faster.

"This release contains features that many of our customers, including a leading cellular handset manufacturer, are already excited about," said Neil Martin, marketing and services manager with Agilent's EEsof EDA division. "With the new links from GENESYS, designers can create an RF system, optimize certain performance characteristics, and start implementing devices such as filters straight from the system simulator. In the past, these tools didn't connect with our industry-leading ADS platform. Now, instead of starting from scratch in ADS, designers can start closer to the finish line."

When Agilent acquired Eagleware in August 2005, it gained access to the sophisticated RF system architecture capabilities in GENESYS. While retaining the Eagleware platform, the company is integrating key technology from Eagleware into the ADS flow to increase designers' speed and efficiency. The new capabilities in ADS 2006A include:

• WhatIF -- an Intermediate Frequency (IF) planning tool for RF system architects;
• Spectrasys -- the only continuous-spectrum RF system simulator with root-cause analysis; and
• Synthesis -- eight design assistants that implement manufacturable circuit-level designs, such as precise image-reject filters for RF boards.

The Agilent ADS 2006A release also contains links that connect users to real-time problem-solving through the Agilent Knowledge Center. The Knowledge Center is an online technical support forum and support data archive that is accessed by more than 10,000 registered users worldwide. Today, a designer can press a button in ADS and, within seconds, have explanations and advice that reflect the application knowledge of thousands of other experienced users worldwide.

A variety of other new technologies and enhancements are part of ADS 2006A, including:

• Accelerated layout connectivity and performance on large monolithic millimeter-wave integrated circuits (MMICs) and reticles;
• Faster circuit and EM simulators that support 64-bit computer architectures to solve design problems that were too large to compute with 32-bit architectures five years ago; and
• System-simulation enhancements that allow wireless designers to move seamlessly between RFIC/package/board design, system design and test equipment while designing to leading communications standards such as 802.11N, WiMax, High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) and WiMedia/Ultra Wideband (UWB).

"Our strategy includes continually finding ways to put new technology on high-frequency designers' desktops," said Martin. "This year we will have a large booth and presence at the MTT-S conference in San Francisco to show RF designers what we can provide across multiple, parallel design flows."

Agilent's ADS 2006A, along with new releases of Eagleware GENESYS design software, Electromagnetic Design System (EMDS), and Integrated Circuit Characterization and Analysis Program (IC-CAP) software, will be featured in Booth 1429 at the MTT-S conference in San Francisco, June 13-15. More information about the MTT-S conference is available at www.ims2006.org.

Additional information about ADS 2006A and all of Agilent's EEsof EDA products is available at www.agilent.com/find/eesof.

A high-resolution image of Agilent's ADS 2006A software is available at www.agilent.com/find/eesof-ADS2006A_image.

U.S. Pricing and Availability

Agilent's ADS 2006A is expected to be available in October 2006, with prices starting at approximately $8,400.

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 20,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $5.1 billion in fiscal 2005. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.

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