The Visual System Architect (VSA) from ACS includes the stage-by-stage cumulative system budget analyses that are essential to successful system design, analysis, system performance verification and report generation. Full spectral domain analysis provides a spectrum analyzer view of all signals and spurs at any point in the system. With the System Signal and Spur Viewer the user can trace any signal or spur through the system back to its source.
System design and analysis productivity is enhanced by the flexibility and ease of use of schematic based system simulation. The ability to drag and drop circuit or system components onto the schematic page from an inclusive menu of component models allows the user to quickly construct system diagrams of arbitrary topology. “What if” scenarios can quickly and easily be tested by simply dragging components into new configuration lineups.
Documenting system performance and report generation is easy since the VSA software can export the tabular data from the Reports page as well as all data from Cascade Budget Analysis, Power Sweeps, and Spectrum Analysis Graphs to standard CSV files that can be immediately imported into spreadsheets such as Excel. The data is also compatible with a wide variety of other programs through the common CSV format.
The VSA allows for circuit design to be suitably driven by system design that connects product specifications to circuit level specifications.