PathWave RF Synthesis 2023 continues to offer the industry’s most complete RF circuit and system synthesis capabilities in an affordable, accurate and easy-to-use simulation software that you’ve come to love. This release delivers new and enhanced capabilities to improve productivity and usability for RF and Microwave circuit and system designers.

Accelerate RF Design Tasks From Hours to Minutes
Analyze RF and microwave circuits and systems with fast simulation and powerful optimization tools. Explore performance trade-offs with automatic circuit synthesis technology. PathWave RF Synthesis (Genesys) provides entry-level functionality suitable for all RF and microwave circuit board and subsystem designers.

The PathWave RF Synthesis 2023 product release includes
-Measurement Data Interchange Format (MDIF) Import of multi-dimension interpolable data from PathWave Advanced Design System (ADS) and Keysight instrumentation
-Python Scripting Enhancements with Visual Source Code extension for editing and debugging
-Graph Enhancements with draggable markers and intelligent autoscaling of step size and units
-Updates and enhancements to Spectrasys EM-Link use model.
-Vendor Parts Library updates to latest Modelithics SELECT+ library
-Improved Power Dependent Attenuator model

MDIF Import
The new MDIF import feature allows for importing multiple files and merging data blocks of the same name in a single dataset. That multidimensional data can then be sliced or interpolated using new functions. Another new feature is Interpolated Dataset where a new dataset can be created from the imported data by interpolating all the variables at once.

Figure 2. New MDIF import enables multi-dimensional data from ADS and Keysight Instrumentation to be interpolated and sliced for use in simulation.

System Requirements
OS:Windows 10/11
CPUSingle-core / Quad-core or above
Hard disk:10 GB free space / 100 GB free space
RAM:16 GB RAM/32 GB RAM/64 GB RAM
Display:1920 x 1080/2560 x 1440

Whats New

MDIF Import
-The new MDIF import feature allows for importing multiple files and merging data blocks of the same name in a single dataset. That multidimensional data can then be sliced or interpolated using new functions. Another new feature is Interpolated Dataset where a new dataset can be created from the imported data by interpolating all the variables at once.
-Added option to import arbitrary dimension (indeps) MDIF data, for example, SParams as a function of
Temperature, Bias, and Freq.
MDF Import includes the following
-Support import of MDIF data that span multiple files
-Tracking original imported files and providing single-click re-import of data.
-New functions for multidimensional extraction and interpolation
-slicedata(): Extracts a slice of the dataset variable
-interpdata(): Interpolates dataset variable
-New MDIF file import only creates dataset variables that are present in the file and does not create superfluous variables like DepVarNames and BlockNames. Use getvariablenames() function instead of DepVarNames.

General Enhancements
-Updated AttnPwr model to only consider input signal power when calculating its threshold power.
-Updates and enhancements to Spectrasys EM-Link use model.
-When using the "Insert S-Param Interconnects..." tool available via the context menu or main menu, the user is -now prompted to automatically open the interconnects tab.
Vendor Parts Library
-Updated to latest Modelithics SELECT+ library.
-(W5300B) PathWave RF Synthesis (Genesys) Core
-Python Scripting Enhancements
-Updated Python version support: PathWave RF Synthesis 2023 requires Python 3.10.x.version introduces breaking changes and may lead your existing scripts to fail or work incorrectly.
-Python scripting has been extended to add support for graphs and also adds a new graph image capture function for high-resolution images: export_graph_as_image(filename, format, width, height, resolution). For more information, see the Python Scripting documentation.

The Python API now supports
-creating workspace variables.
-ability to change the design name of an analysis. Changing the design name of the analysis will also change the design of the analysis. The design name is a property of analysis.
-opening and closing graph windows, as well as a function to get a list of available graphs. For more information, see Python Graph Class.
-setting the dataset for analysis.
-setting the dataset reference for a graph.
-The Python Workspace object now has a "designs" property that returns a dictionary of all designs in the workspace.
-The Visual Source Code extension for PathWave RF Synthesis Python scripting with editing and debugging capabilities has been published to the Visual Studio marketplace. For more information, see VS Code System Design Python Extension.

Graph Enhancements
-Graph objects now have an option called Auto-Unit which is on by default. This feature selects an appropriate unit from the variable's available units so that the numbers of the axis range look nice on the graph.
Markers on Graph objects now support dragging. Click any marker label and drag the marker to the desired location on the trace. Markers can not be dragged across traces.
-The auto-scale algorithm for axis ranges on graph objects has been improved. The x-axis and y-axis ranges should calculate a range with a step size divisible by 1, 2, 5, or 10. The axis range may be adjusted above and/or below the data minimum to calculate a nice step size. In addition, graph objects now have an option -called Auto-Unit which is on by default. This feature selects an appropriate unit from the variable's available units so that the numbers of the axis range look nice on the graph
-The graph axis provides a new Auto-Unit setting, which is used in conjunction with Auto-Scale to determine the most appropriate unit for the data range.
-Auto-Unit is ignored when a Label is specified because the unit is only appended to the automatic label. Since the unit will be omitted (unless it's part of the user-entered Label text), there is no way to visually determine the automatic unit.
-The graph markers have been enhanced to display the market text in a separate window. This allows the market window to be resized in case of long text and also allows the info to be scrolled.

General Enhancements
-Simulation now correctly ignores the disabled Path2 parameter.
-The following export option is removed
-IFF Schematic File...

Known Issues
-External Python scripts (.py files) use the SystemVueEngine (SVE), which imposes some restrictions on the available functionality, compared to internal scripts which are run from within Genesys. One such limitation is that you cannot access Genesys Analyses and only sweep analyses are supported.
-Workaround: Use internal Python scripts whenever you need to run analyses in Genesys.
Output equations need to be in a separate equation block to resolve any data references. Sometimes errors are triggered when these output equations are run, and they refer to data that does not yet exist (the data will be calculated later by the analysis run). In the past, it was advised that users disable auto-calculate to avoid these annoying error messages. The downside of this setting is that the output equations must be run manually after the analysis has run.
-A better workaround is to put the output equations in their own folder (with nothing else) and set them to auto-calculate.
-When performing EM/circuit co-simulations, as Genesys has no Pad_mode feature, the Modelithics part's Sim_mode 2 option is selected to avoid counting pads twice. However, when doing this, the component pins are placed at the edges of the solder pads rather than the edges of the components, causing incorrect results.
Workaround: Force the pins into the correct location in Genesys by adjusting the pad lengths within the models to correspond to the length of the part. Then add microstrip lines to the schematic to account for the pad length that was removed from the model.
-Exporting of layout to EM Design (EMPro) 2022 or later ends in an error.
Workaround: Use EM Design 2021.
In some cases, the installer fails to determine that a system reboot is required. If you run Genesys after such an installation, it will most likely crash during startup. Reboot the system and then run Genesys.
The Momentum Mesher returns warnings for vias. This message can be ignored as the accuracy of the simulation is not degraded.
If you encounter an error indicating "MATLAB Script engine failed to run" during Genesys startup, make sure the installed version of Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable (x64) is 8.0.61000 or higher. You can download and install the latest Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable (x64) from the Microsoft website.
MATLAB R2018a is unsupported in Genesys if the current Windows user name contains non-ASCII characters. Use an earlier version of MATLAB or an ASCII-only user name. Contact support for other possible workarounds.
Issue: 3D visualization does not work properly when McAfee antivirus is installed.
Workaround: You need to disable the McAfee antivirus to make the 3D visualization work.