Keysight SystemVue 2026 (PathWave System Design) The Ultimate Electronic System-Level (ESL) Design Software for 5G, 6G, NTN, Radar, Satellite & Aerospace/Defense
Take your physical-layer (PHY) innovation to the next level with SystemVue 2026 — Keysight’s most advanced electronic system-level design, modeling, simulation, and verification platform. Built for system architects, algorithm developers, RF engineers, and hardware designers, SystemVue 2026 unifies baseband, RF, digital, and hardware domains into one powerful environment. Create high-fidelity digital twins of next-generation wireless, non-terrestrial networks (NTN), radar, satellite, and aerospace/defense communications systems — and go from concept to verified hardware faster than ever.
What’s New in SystemVue 2026 – Major Highlights & New Functions
Cross-Platform Power: Native Windows + Linux Support For the first time, SystemVue delivers a full modern graphical user interface on both Windows and Linux. Deploy seamlessly in enterprise desktops, private clouds, public clouds, and high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. Enjoy complete workflow portability, automation scripts, and scalable simulation performance across platforms.
Completely Redesigned Modern User Interface A sleek new Ribbon interface, dark & light themes, multi-window workspace management, improved schematic rendering quality, enhanced graphing tools, and smarter navigation make complex system design faster and more intuitive than previous generations.
Spectrasys II – Next-Generation RF Analysis Engine The all-new Spectrasys II engine brings high-fidelity, multi-dimensional RF modeling into the system-level world. Accurately model RF devices under real operating conditions (frequency, power, bias, temperature). Dynamic model configuration and a new measurement-based mixer model let you import actual spectrum analyzer data so your simulations behave like real hardware.
Dynamic Gain Model (DGM) Capture nonlinear amplitude and phase behavior plus memory effects in power amplifiers, mixers, and frequency converters using measurement-extracted models. Perfect for evaluating spectral regrowth, EVM degradation, and digital predistortion (DPD) performance under realistic wideband, high-PAPR 5G/6G waveforms.
Pre-6G Breakthroughs: ISAC & RIS Modeling
- Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) — Simulate mono-static and bi-static scenarios with multi-target range, velocity, and angle estimation using 3GPP-aligned channel models.
- Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) — Model phase/amplitude quantization, reflection characteristics, and complete transmit–reflect–receive chains for intelligent wireless environments.
Enhanced Phased Array Analysis (PAA) New support for multi-beam analog beamforming, sub-band (sub-carrier) radiation patterns, time-delay and phase-taper beam adaptation, wideband beam-squint effects, and improved HPC controls. Ideal for massive MIMO, satellite payloads, and advanced radar systems.
Native NTN Coverage Maps Visualize Earth-surface coverage of key link-budget metrics (CNR, RSSI) for satellite transmitters and phased-array antennas. Combine beamforming, satellite trajectory, propagation losses, and receiver sensitivity in one unified workflow to optimize NTN payloads.
