Keysight Advanced Design System (ADS) to Matlab interface.
This TADSInterface class allows for communication with Keysight Advanced Design System (ADS) from within MATLAB. It has been developed and tested under Windows platform, but small modifications are expected to adapt it for Linux.
Warning! The interface uses undocumented features of ADS! Therefore, there is a chance that it will stop working under a new release of ADS. The current version of the interface has been tested with ADS 2016.1, 2017, 2019 and 2022.
NOTE also that the interface has been used for simulations using Harmonic balance solver in ADS. It should work with other solvers as well, but it is not guaranteed.
This ADS-MATLAB interface allows:
- Set paths and environmental variables required by ADS;
- Change parameters in the ADS project's schematic ("Var Eqn" component);
- Change parameters of components (like SNP, capacitors, etc.);
- Run simulation;
- Read results from the dataset files generated by the solver (which can be run either from Matlab using this interface, or natively from ADS IDE).
NOTE that all parameter changes made by the interface affect only the project's netlist file, and do not affect the schematic. The netlist will be re-generated by ADS if simulation is started within its IDE. So, the parameter changes here make sense only if the simulation is started by means of this interface.
All functionalities are well documented in the included Live Script demos. MATLAB R2018a or higher is desired in order to not loose code samples in the demos.
If you encounter any errors, notice some misfunction while using the interface, or would like to have new functionality, feel free to open an issue directly in GitHub. However, I cannot promise fast fix/response due to lack of time for support.
I would like to thank Jan Simon for his great function GetFullPath, it is very helpful for this interface.