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Recommendations For Port Setup When Using ADS Momentum and Modelithics Models

This document provides recommendations for port setup when simulating RF and microwave circuits using Keysight's Advanced Design System (ADS) and Modelithics models. It discusses the different port types in ADS, including pins, ports, and calibration types. Examples are presented comparing single-ended and differential port configurations. Recommendations are provided based on comparisons to measured circuit data. The goal is to help users accurately simulate circuits with surface mount components through proper port configuration in the electromagnetic simulations.

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Recommendations For Port Setup When Using ADS Momentum and Modelithics Models

This document provides recommendations for port setup when simulating RF and microwave circuits using Keysight's Advanced Design System (ADS) and Modelithics models. It discusses the different port types in ADS, including pins, ports, and calibration types. Examples are presented comparing single-ended and differential port configurations. Recommendations are provided based on comparisons to measured circuit data. The goal is to help users accurately simulate circuits with surface mount components through proper port configuration in the electromagnetic simulations.

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Recommendations for Port

Setup When Using ADS


Momentum and Modelithics
Models
Overview
• With the increased complexity of today’s circuits, designers are
increasingly dependent on electromagnetic (EM) simulations during
the design phase. With the trend toward smaller circuits and multi-
layered boards, EM simulation is needed to accurately model internal
circuit interactions. The use of discrete compo-nents helps to reduce
a circuit’s overall footprint, but introduces a level of complexity to the
design process. A good understand-ing of the proper EM port
configurations and calibration types is required to ensure accurate
EM-circuit co-simulation results.
Overview
• This application note is intended to help users of Keysight Tech-
nologies’ Advanced Design System (ADS) and Modelithics mod-els,
accurately and efficiently simulate RF and microwave circuits. The
focus is on finding the optimum port setup for EM simulation of
circuit layouts that include surface mount devices
Overview
• Several new features and improvements were introduced to
Momentum, the 3D planar EM simulator in ADS, starting with the
ADS 2011 release. Of particular interest are the new port calibration
types and their impact on co-simulation when using Modelithics
models. This application note explains the port nomenclature in ADS,
presents multiple co-simulations between Momentum and
Modelithics models, shows the impact of the various port shapes and
calibration types, and provides recom-mendations based on
comparisons to measured data
Overview
• The application note content is organized into three main areas. The
first area provides detailed information concerning Momen-tum port
types and calibration definitions. Next is the results section, which
includes examples that provide insight into port and calibration
performance. The final section contains the rec-ommended
calibration type and port configurations
Pins and Ports in ADS
• ADS 2011 introduced new port calibration types and nomencla-ture
to Momentum. Before discussing port calibration types, it helps to
understand the difference between a pin and a port. A layout pin (or
simply “pin”) refers to a specific location in the lay-out and is defined
as a single point, an edge, or an area, as shown in Figure 1. The blue
color denotes a pin in all three cases; it may be difficult to see the
point pin in Figure 1 since the blue color is just a dot at the tip of the
arrow.
Pins and Ports in ADS
• In a Momentum simulation, the user may combine pins together in various
configurations to create S-parameter ports. For exam-ple, a user could define one
positive pin and two negative pins combined together into a single port, yielding a
Ground-Signal-Ground (GSG) configuration for coplanar waveguide structures. This is
possible because Momentum supports S-parameter ports with multiple positive pins
and/or multiple negative pins. The ground reference for an S-parameter port can be
either explicit (Figure 2b) or implicit (Figure 2d). Explicit means that one or more pins set
the location of the ground reference for that port. Implicit ground (denoted by Gnd in
the EM Setup view) means that there is no layout pin denoting the location of ground;
causing Momen-tum to use the nearest infinite ground plane. In the absence of an
infinite ground plane, Momentum will use the zero scalar poten-tial at infinity (i.e.,
ground at infinity). What this means is that you have a choice when co-simulating
Momentum and two-terminal Modelithics models: you either set up a single port
spanning across the device (Figure 2a, denoted as the differential configu-ration) or set
up two ports (one on each pad), each referenced to the nearest ground plane (Figure 2c,
denoted as the single-ended configuration).

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