Keysight Technologies, Inc. announced AI-powered Chat and Copilot assistants for its Advanced Design System (ADS), delivering breakthrough natural language capabilities that accelerate design workflows while maintaining enterprise-grade security.
Electronic design teams face mounting challenges: complex multi-domain workflows, fragmented data management, and relentless pressure to accelerate time-to-market. Manual processes slow innovation, while talent shortages and security concerns add risk.
Keysight’s secure AI-powered assistants tackle these issues head-on — ramping quickly for new users, automating repetitive tasks, and streamlining manual workflows — so engineers can focus on what matters most: delivering breakthrough designs faster and smarter.
This update transforms EDA workflows, reducing learning curves while accelerating design cycles. The AI assistants leverage language models fine-tuned on Keysight's electronic design expertise. Each assistant can be configured individually.
Control Design Flow with Keysight’s Dual AI Assistants
- The Learning Assistant (Chat) provides instant conversational answers to a broad range of Keysight ADS tool usage and application questions.
- The Tool Assistant (Copilot) actively executes commands within the Keysight SIPro and RFPro electromagnetic simulation environments, automating repetitive tasks and streamlining operations.
Key benefits of the EDA virtual assistants include:
- Security and Control: Keysight has architected these AI capabilities with on-premises deployment so that customer data never leaves the organization, enabling compliance with local IT and security policies. These are a separate add-on installation, to the main Keysight ADS software, giving IT teams better control over security and the choice of toolsets.
- Domain-Specific Intelligence: Keysight's Chat and Copilot are enhanced with specialized EDA training data, delivering accurate responses tailored to RF and high-speed design challenges. This reduces hallucinations and provides trustworthy guidance.
- Streamlined User Experience: By enabling natural language control of Keysight EDA environments, the AI assistants accelerate workflows that traditionally required navigating multiple menus. Engineers retain full supervision, interacting with the tools through conversational commands.
- Enterprise-Ready: Keysight supports flexible deployment including Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift on commercially available GPU hardware. These AI capabilities are included with existing ADS subscriptions at no additional cost.
Nilesh Kamdar, Design and Verification Business Unit Lead of Keysight EDA, said: “The semiconductor industry faces a critical challenge: capitalizing on AI's transformative capabilities without compromising security. By deploying AI-enabled EDA tools on-premises, we eliminate that barrier, enabling design teams to safely explore how AI agents can enhance their workflows and amplify the value of their existing tools.”
The EDA AI Learning Assistants are available now with ADS 2026 Update 1, with additional Copilot features available through an early access program.
