Keysight Boosts Electronic Design Productivity

Keysight Technologies, Inc. has built AI-powered Chat and Copilot assistants for its Advanced Design System (ADS), delivering natural language capabilities to advance design workflows and maintain enterprise-grade security.

Keysight’s secure AI-powered assistants automate repetitive tasks, and streamlining manual workflows. The AI assistants leverage language models fine-tuned on Keysight's electronic design expertise. Each assistant can be configured individually.

Keysight’s Dual AI Assistants

Key benefits of the EDA virtual assistants include:

• • The Learning Assistant (Chat) provides instant conversational answers to 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.
  • 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.
  • 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. 
  • 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.

"The semiconductor industry faces a critical challenge: capitalizing on AI's transformative capabilities without compromising security," says Nilesh Kamdar, Design and Verification Business Unit lead of Keysight EDA. "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. For more information, visit EDA tool assistants.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.