Dossier: Keysight

Designing tomorrow’s products requires new approaches to thinking, working, and utilizing advanced tools. Keysight helps its customers effectively master that complexity. That is why Keysight has acquired world-leading domain experts to bring their software into the Keysight Design Engineering Software ecosystem. This is not just about filling gaps in our software portfolio. It is about redefining what is possible.

At Keysight, we imagine a truly collaborative development lifecycle that allows engineers across domains to work together concurrently, from optimal design to optimal test and operation. A lifecycle where:

• Intelligent algorithms guide simulations in EDA, CAE, and optical - automatically simplifying complexity and speeding up iterations while preserving maximum accuracy.
• AI, hybrid models, quantum computing, and 6G will provide the power to run massive, multi-domain simulations in real time.
• Built-in measurement expertise, materials science, and real data from Keysight’s own hardware will ensure that every result mirrors reality.
• Immersive Virtual Reality will let us explore new designs and processes intuitively, hands-on, as if they already existed.
• AI-powered IP and data management, combined with software quality engineering (SQE), will keep workflows seamless, allowing us to focus on creativity instead of logistics.

Keysight Advances “Software-Centric” Solutions with ESI Acquisition

Meeting Industrial Digital Transformation Challenges

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ESI Extends the Virtual Engineering Environment

ESI Extends the Vision of the Virtual Prototype

• Electronic Design Automation Software (EDA)
  Next-generation EDA tools built for RF and high-speed design in 5G/6G, power electronics, quantum computing, and photonics. Backed by 40 years of design success, validated Process Design Kits (PDKs), trusted models, and rich component libraries, users can streamline every stage—from schematic to verification—with precision and confidence before they build.
• RF/Microwave/Wireless
  • RF / Wireless Design
  • Device Modeling
  • Quantum Computing
• Circuit Design
  • Design RF Circuits
  • Design High-speed digital devices
  • Design power electronics
  • Design quantum electronics
  • Design photonics
  • Power-efficient IC design, optimized thermal performance, RTL optimization (Ansys PowerArtist)
• Computer-Aided Engineering Software (CAE)
  Simulate real-world performance before building a single prototype. Keysight’s AI-ready CAE software helps users validate and certify products, virtually cutting emissions, reducing test mileage, and minimizing cost for processes, tooling, and materials. Users can accurately predict how future products will perform in real-world conditions - even accounting for the complex details of the manufacturing process.
• Product Performance Simulation
  • Structural mechanics including crash & seat simulation (VPS Virtual Performance Solution)
  • Multi-physics system simulation (SimulationX)
  • Vibro-acoustic simulation (VA One)
  • Computational fluid dynamics simulation (OpenFOAM, open source)
  • Optical design & lightning simulation (Synopsys Optical Solutions Group)
• Manufacturing Process Simulation
  • Car body chassis stamping simulation (BMStamp)
  • Sheet metal forming simulation (PAM-Stamp)
  • (die, investment, and sand) casting simulation incl. megacasting (ProCAST)
  • Welding, joining, and assembly simulation (Sysweld)
  • Composites simulation (PAM-Composites)
  • Immersive design reviews for product integration validation (IC.IDO)
  • Immersive design reviews for assembly & service process validation (IC.DO)
• IP and Data Management Software (PDM)
  A crucial but often overlooked element at the core of the V cycle - the backbone for a continuous digital loop, connecting development, testing, and operations and ensuring seamless collaboration all along the way.
  • Centralized control of simulation and test data ensures that every process, from design and simulation to manufacturing and final certification, is connected and traceable (Cliosoft)
• Software Quality Engineering (SQE)
  • Eggplant is Keysight’s key enabling tool, linking virtual simulations (Digital Twins, physics-based models) with real system functionality, enabling engineers to validate that the simulated behavior matches actual system performance – AI-augmented for intelligent and fast exploration.
  • By linking simulation models with system-level functional testing and facilitating requirements traceability, the software increases trust in simulation results, helping engineers deliver certification-ready prototypes and achieve first-pass success in hardware testing.
  • Keysight’s open-ecosystem approach ensures that integrating Keysight tools into existing Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) systems does not disrupt business operations. It ensures consistent data exchange and uninterrupted workflows — providing teams confidence in toolchain expansion.

Primary Markets and Focus

Aerospace, Automotive, and Heavy Machinery.

Sample Customer List

Airbus, Amazon, AT&T, BAE Systems, Baker Hughes, Bell Flight, Boeing, Bombardier, Broadcom, Caterpillar, Cummins, Cisco, Daimler, Delphi, Embaer, FAW, Ford, Fujitsu, General Electrics, GM, Honda, Honeywell, HKMC, HP, Infineon, Innolight, Joby, John Deere, Komatsu, Lenovo, Leonardo, LG, Lillium, Mercedes Benz, Mahindra, Meta, Microsoft, Naval Research Lab, NASA, Nippon Steel, Nokia, Northrop Grumman, Nvidia, PSA, Qualcomm, Qorvo, Raytheon, Renault-Nissan, Rolls-Royce, SAIC, Safran, Samsung, Siemens, Taiwan Semiconductor, Tata, Tesla, Toyota, TRW, US Government, Volkswagen, Volvo.