Keysight Technologies, Inc. is expanding its support for creating process design kits (PDKs) and reference design flows for Intel's new advanced technology nodes.

Keysight announced on the 14th that it is joining the Intel Foundry Services (IFS) Accelerator electronic design automation (EDA) alliance program.

Keysight will integrate its EDA simulation software portfolio with the latest node reference design flows to deliver accurate circuit, thermal, and electromagnetic (EM) analysis required for complex radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) development.

The goal of the EDA Alliance program is to accelerate customer design for Intel foundry processes and to enable customers to use products from EDA tool vendors targeting Intel chip manufacturing with greater confidence.

Keysight becomes a member of the growing IFS EDA Alliance ecosystem, which also includes Keysight's strategic EDA partners.

Keysight has a long history of providing RFIC design enablement and PDK support to several major foundries.

“The expansion of design enablement support to IFS is a significant step forward for Keysight,” said Niels Faché, vice president and general manager of Keysight’s PathWave Software Solutions division. “This is a very important part of Keysight’s strategy and will broaden the range of Keysight’s RF design and simulation tools available,” he said. “As our relationship with IFS evolves and customer demand grows, we anticipate that other PathWave simulation products will become available.”

“We are excited to welcome Keysight to the IFS EDA Alliance, enabling IFS customers to take advantage of a broad range of RF simulation, design and test capabilities,” said Rahul Goyal, vice president of Product and Design Ecosystem Enablement at Intel. “Generally, IFS customer success hinges on providing robust, proven capabilities across a broad ecosystem, and this is critical for customers engaged in RF design.”