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EE-342 Microwave Engineering

Lab 2: Introduction to ADS (Advance Design System)

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OBJECTIVES:
Examine the Main window commands and icons

Create a new project and schematic design

Setup and perform a basic resistor circuit and verify OHM’s law

Display the simulation data on a plot and save files

Procedure:
Step 1: Start ADS. Go through the ADS startup guide (ADS intro.pdf) and get familiar with the interface

Step 2: Click “File->New Project” and name the project as “Exp1”

Step 3: If a Schematic Wizard starts, ignore the wizard (Press Cancel)

Step 4: A schematic Design window will display as follows

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 Component Palette List. It lists
various categories of components

Components within the

selected Palette

Some of the commonly used components are available as toolbar buttons as follows

Ground
Wire Rotate

Put following components

Resister: “R” - Available under “Lumped-Component” Palette

DC Source: “V_DC” Available under “Sources-Freq Domain”

Ground: Available on Toolbar

Ampere Meter: “I_Probe” Available under “Probe Components”

Arrange the components on the schematic diagram as follows

Connect the components together using “Wire” component available on toolbar

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ADS assign default values to the components as follows

Voltage Source V_DC: Vdc = 1.0 V

Resister R: R = 50 Ohm

Step 5: In order to simulate the circuit and analyze its behavior we define “variables” and assign the
value ranges to these variables. Put variable component “VAR” available under “Data Items” palette.

Once placed in the schematic, double click on the VAR component to get following window

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Instance name is the name of the component. You may change it if required.

Under “Name” field, write “VS” and press “Add” button. A new parameter “VS” will be added in the list
with default value of “1.0”. Press OK button

Step 6: Double click on the voltage source “V_DC” to get following window

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It shows the default value of Vdc as 1.0 V. We need to change this and assign it the variable “VS”

Click on “Equation Editor” to get following window

Delete the 1.0 under “Vdc=” text field.

Select “VS” in the variables listing and click on “Insert”. Press OK

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Now the default value of Vdc has changed to VS. Now we need to assign the value range to VS. Press OK
to close the variable window

Step 7: In order to simulate the circuit, put a simulate component “DC” available under “Simulation-
DC” Palette. Once placed on the schematic, double click on the Simulation component to get following
window

There are four tabs in this window with “Sweep” Tab as the default one. Under this tab, write “VS” in
the “Parameter sweep” field. And write following values as ranges

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Start: 0

Stop: 10

Step-size: 1

This will sweep the values of VS from 0 to 10 with step size of 1, so the simulation will run 11 times and
we’ll get 11 outputs displayed on same output window

Keep all other options as such. Click OK to close the window

Step 8: Your design is now ready to be simulated. Either press F7 or select “Simulate” under
“Simulate” menu.

Following window will appear to show the status of simulation

Any error messages (if any) will be shown in this window.

If there are no errors, another window will open as follows

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 Rectangular Plot

Output display types

This window displays the output result based on the type of view selected.

Select the “Rectangular Plot” and drop it in the main window to show the following window

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Step 9: We want to see a plot of Current Vs Voltage to verify OHM’s law.
Select I_Probe1.i and Click on “Add Vs” button. Another window appears to select the Independent
variable. Select “VS” and press OK. Again Press OK to see the output plot as follows

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This plot clearly verifies the OHM’s law. With a resister of 50 ohms, as the voltage “VS” is swept from 0
to 10 volts, current changes from 0 to 0.2 amperes as shown in the plot

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Step 10: Save the plot as well as the design windows.
Step 10: As we have verified OHM’s law with a resister having fixed value of 50 ohms and changing the
input voltage from0 to 10 volts, thus resulting in current variations from 0 to 0.2 amperes.

What if we want to verify OHM’s law for various values of resistor, say 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 Ohms
separately? This essentially means selecting the appropriate value of resistor and running the
simulation. Repeating the process 5 times for each value of resistor.

There is another powerful feature of ADS that allows repetition of the sweep for multiple values of
resistor with a single click. All five graphs will thus be displayed in same plot.

In order to do this we define a new variable “RR” in the variable “VAR” component.

Step 11: Double click on “VAR” component in the schematic and add the “RR” variable with default
value of 1.0

Step 12: Double click on the resister component and change its default value from 50 to RR

Step 13: Add a new component parameter sweep “PrmSwp” under “Simulation-DC” palette.
Once added, double click on the component to get the following window

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Write “RR” in the parameter to sweep field and write following values

Start: 10

Stop: 50

Step-size: 10

Then click on “Simulations” tab and write “DC1” (default name of the simulation component).

This essentially means that for every value defined in the parameter sweep variable, the simulation
defined in the DC1 will be executed.

Click OK to close the window

Step 14: Now press F7 or select “simulation” under “simulation” menu to get following plot

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This graph shows five plots in a single window, one each for the five different resister values
(10,20,30,40,50 ohms).

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Exercise:
Plot the following circuit using ADS

Plot the graph of IC Vs VCE with following sweep values

VCE: 0 to 10 volts, step size = 1 volt

IB: .1 mA to 1 mA, step size = .1mA

BJT used in the circuit is “AT41411” that is accessible from the component library. To put this
component, use following procedure

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Select Insert Menu -> Component -> Component library

In the Component library window, select “Packaged BJTs” under RF Transistor library. Press the “Find
components” button in toolbar and write “AT41411” and press “Apply”. Select the component in search
result and then click in the schematic window to place the component.

The Current Source “I_DC” is available under “Source-Freq Domain” palette

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