“QUALCOMM is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on CDMA and other advanced technologies.”

“We spend a significant amount of effort on mixed-signal verification and noise analysis of mixed-signal integrated circuits. After a rigorous evaluation of the AFS Platform on a variety of mixed-signal integrated circuits, we have decided to deploy this platform for mass-production use in Panasonic.”

“Broadcom Corporation is a major technology innovator and global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications.”

“At Newport Media we have been using AFS for over two years for verification of our single-chip solutions for mobile TV broadcast and we consistently get 5x-10x faster results than traditional SPICE simulators with identical waveforms and silicon accurate device noise analysis. We standardized on the AFS Platform for analog/RF verification because it delivers >2x improved designer efficiency and addresses all our verification needs, including block-level design characterization, complex-block simulation, silicon-accurate device noise analysis, and full-chip mixed-signal verification -- all with true SPICE accuracy.”

“At Summit we have been using Analog FastSPICE for over one year for transistor level simulation of our programmable, highly integrated precision power management ICs, and we consistently get up to 14x faster results than traditional SPICE simulators with identical waveforms. Now with AFS Nano we get block-level simulation with true SPICE accuracy at a superior price/performance. This makes it compelling even compared to traditional SPICE tools.”

“Analog FastSPICE meets a critical need for our mixed-signal/RF IC designers- super fast performance combined with true SPICE accuracy- which was impossible with any other simulator. We reduced simulation time for our complex ADCs, integer and fractional PLLs, and transceivers by 5x-10x with true SPICE accuracy. We have been able to easily integrate this into our proprietary design flow, thereby reducing verification times for our engineers developing complex mixed-signal circuits for wireless, consumer, and networking applications.”

“Accurate transistor-level noise analysis of complete fractional-N PLLs is becoming critical for nanometer RFICs, but this analysis has been impossible or impractical. Only the Noise Analysis Option can measure our fractional-N PLL closed-loop noise analysis with true SPICE accuracy. Adding Analog FastSPICE Co-Simulation for our PLL's digital blocks increased performance another 3x and produced identical results. The PLL phase noise in both cases correlated extremely well with our silicon measurements.”

“Verifying our programmable CMOS RF transceivers requires full-circuit simulation and transistor-level noise analysis. We selected Analog FastSPICE for our next-generation products after verifying its true SPICE accuracy and performance on our current products. We also chose the Noise Analysis Option so we could perform transistor-level device noise analysis on our complex analog/RF circuits including ADCs, mixers, and PLLs.”

“Berkeley Design Automation is an essential partner for us in achieving success in the development of digital-RF designs. Designers face enormous challenges in verifying digital-RF mixed-signal integrated circuits in terms of accuracy, performance, and capacity. Berkeley Design Automation has achieved the significant reduction in verification time with full SPICE accuracy and the ability to run critical full-circuit verification for a variety of mixed-signal digital-RF circuits.”

“Alvand's high-performance, ultra-low-power analog and mixed-signal IP requires stringent and efficient characterization. AFS Nano provides us superior price/performance for block-level design and verification. It consistently delivers true SPICE accurate results up to 10x faster than traditional SPICE on our ADC, DAC, and analog front-end designs.”

“Getting it right first time, on time is important for us. Verifying our digitally programmable, highly integrated precision power management ICs requires transistor-level simulation with true SPICE accuracy. Traditional SPICE simulators were too slow and did not have sufficient capacity. Digital fastSPICE simulators were difficult to set up and were not accurate enough. AFS fits right into our flow and simulates our complex switching DC-DC converters up to 14x faster than traditional SPICE simulator while producing identical waveforms. With AFS we are able to achieve full-circuit performance verification including power-up sequences with true SPICE accuracy.”

“A few weeks before tape-out, we needed a tool that could accurately verify the complete power-up sequence of our design including crystal oscillator ramp-up, band-gap reference start-up, EPROM-driven calibration of LC-VCO, and PLL locking sequence. Analog FastSPICE delivered full-circuit performance simulations of the entire design, enabling us to verify our complete power-up sequence with true SPICE accuracy, which was impossible with any other simulator. We were very impressed that Analog FastSPICE worked right out of the box on our leading-edge circuits.”

“Berkeley Design Automation offers a breakthrough verification technology that is critical for Toshiba's consumer electronics business. Our verification requirements exceeded the capabilities of traditional SPICE and digital fastSPICE simulators. Analog FastSPICE delivers accuracy that is as good or better than traditional SPICE at higher performance than digital fastSPICE simulators on analog and RF circuits. This enables us to perform verification tasks that were previously impossible.”

“Accurate and thorough design verification of our complex analog/RF blocks is a fundamental priority in the healthcare market where Toumaz operates. In just 4 days Analog FastSPICE delivered true SPICE accurate results that would have taken our traditional SPICE simulator 26 days to complete. As a result, we were able to verify a fix to a subtle but critical sigma-delta ADC problem that we may have missed with our normal analog simulator.”

“Our single chip, multi-band, multi-standard ICs for mobile digital TV applications have extreme verification needs. We’ve tried a number of simulators, and Analog FastSPICE is the only circuit simulator that can run our full-circuit and complex blocks simulations with full SPICE accuracy. It also cuts long runtimes on our critical blocks by more than 5X – again with full SPICE accuracy.”

“At Silicon Labs, we design industry leading high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs for a broad range of applications. Analog FastSPICE provides identical results as our traditional SPICE simulators 10x faster on complex pre-layout and post-layout circuits including PLLs and sigma-delta ADCs.”

“By greatly improving the speed of our top level simulations we are now able to run larger sections of our chip and evaluate even more corner cases. With Analog FastSPICE, we can verify our complete WiMAX transceiver with full SPICE accuracy which was impossible with other simulators. We are also able to slash the long verification times for our complex analog and RF blocks by more than 5x – again with full SPICE accuracy.”

“We recently designed a wideband analog front-end IP for wireless applications and we needed a tool to verify that our complete design met spec prior to tapeout. The full-circuit included 10 simultaneously operating 12-bit ADC’s and DAC’s. The 64-bit version of Analog FastSPICE was able to run performance simulations of our complete wireless analog front-end - including all ten ADCs/DACs, as well as packaging effects - with full SPICE accuracy. We were able to fully validate the design to specification prior to tapeout while other simulators failed to even converge.”

“The analog and RF circuits in our XSPAN™ and ROCm™ chipsets run at a wide range of frequencies from MHz to multi-GHz. We run extensive performance simulations that require full SPICE accuracy and can take days in traditional SPICE simulators. Analog FastSPICE is a great complement to our simulation environment and provides excellent performance improvement in long transient simulations with SPICE accuracy in a fraction of the time.”

"Analog FastSPICE provides us a tremendous advantage in achieving fast innovation and fast growth by delivering 10 times faster circuit verification with full SPICE accuracy for our most complex and innovative analog circuits. This speed and accuracy enables LG Electronics to accelerate the rate of innovation and deliver products to market much faster across our mobile communications, digital appliance, digital display, and digital media businesses."

"At Fujitsu, our innovative product engineering teams design some of the world's most complex high-speed analog/RF and mixed-signal circuits. Many of these circuits are highly nonlinear and difficult to analyze with traditional RF analysis tools. BDA's RF FastSPICE allows us to quickly and accurately analyze our toughest VCOs and PLLs enabling our engineers to confidently tape-out their designs much faster."

“Traditional SPICE simulators are too slow for accurate functional verification of the large analog circuits in our high speed interface IC designs. We’ve tried FastSPICE tools, but it is a big challenge to find acceptable high accuracy and performance settings when running these tools. BDA’s Analog FastSPICE provides us with both the accuracy of SPICE and the performance of FastSPICE, without the need to experiment with accuracy options.”

“After an extensive evaluation, we determined that Berkeley Design Automation’s Precision Circuit Analysis technology presents a strategic competitive advantage to Panasonic and is critical to our success. We believe in the technology so much that we decided to invest in the company.”

"We were an early adopter of Berkeley Design's technology. We use PLL Noise Analyzer to analyze jitter in clock and data recovery circuits. The tool produces accurate results and is much faster and more reliable than our previous noise analysis methodology. Our engineers, who are fluent in HSPICE, were able to master PLL Noise Analyzer in a matter of minutes."

"We view NEC's ability to reliably deliver high-quality analog IP as a competitive advantage for us in the European market. Using PLL Noise Analyzer, NEC is able to accurately analyze full PLL noise before tape-out. This capability helps NEC deliver working silicon on time."

"At THine, we design a variety of LSIs with high speed interfaces that must meet very tight noise specifications under stringent cost constraints. The ability of PLL Noise Analyzer to provide accurate analysis enabled us to dramatically reduce our verification turn-around time. This capability allows us to deploy a robust analysis methodology for all of our designs."

"We design a wide variety of high-performance I/Os at speeds up to and beyond 10Gbits per second. Meeting phase noise and jitter targets is a significant design challenge. PLL Noise Analyzer is an innovative tool that enables us to accurately analyze the noise of a full, transistor-level PLL before tape-out. We have used PLL Noise Analyzer on our 90nm SERDES and found the tool to be fast, accurate and easy to use."

“Analog FastSPICE produced identical results as our SPICE simulator 5x faster for our full-circuit power amplifier with all the packaging models. We also used Analog FastSPICE on complex RF blocks where it delivered identical results 14.5x faster than SPICE and was the only tool to deliver silicon-accurate noise analysis”

“We have always wanted to run full-circuit simulation of our microcontroller designs since they contain complex analog components, but traditional SPICE cannot converge on them and traditional fastSPICE tools produce the wrong results. Analog FastSPICE finished what was impossible for every other simulator in just 12 hours. It also slashed our PLL simulations from 24 hours to 2.5 hours while producing identical results. With Analog FastSPICE we can tapeout our chips faster and with significantly more confidence in first pass silicon success.”

“Our analog intensive mixed-signal ICs for digital multimedia applications push the limits of our design verification flow. Analog FastSPICE consistently delivers 5X to 10X faster performance compared to even multi-core traditional SPICE simulators with identical results. Analog FastSPICE also has the required capacity to enable us to verify our highly-integrated ICs at the full-circuit level.”

“Noise and nonlinearity are becoming the limiting factors in the design of high performance analog and mixed signal circuits. The increased performance demands and circuit complexities make the noise analysis approaches used in traditional tools grossly inaccurate. The circuit analysis technology developed by Berkeley Design Automation provides fast and accurate noise analysis for current and future analog/RF circuits.”

“Noise analysis of nonlinear circuits has been a difficult problem for a very long time. This difficulty has made the design of many of today’s analog-rich circuits such as PLLs and CDRs a time-consuming, error-prone, and expensive process, often requiring multiple silicon iterations. Berkeley Design Automation has demonstrated that it can provide designers a significant breakthrough in how they analyze these circuits, enabling them to accurately characterize their designs before silicon tape-out.”

“There is a myriad of challenges facing today’s designers of complex analog and RF mixed signal integrated circuits. The most pressing challenge is the requirement for silicon-accurate noise analysis of highly nonlinear subsystems, such as PLL frequency synthesizers and transceivers. BDA’s breakthrough circuit analysis technology allows silicon-accurate noise analysis of such circuits, enabling a faster path to successful silicon. This has a major impact on devices, circuits, and systems, all of which are major focus areas of our group’s research here at UC Berkeley.”

“Today’s high-performance analog and RF ICs contain complex phase-locked loops to achieve high speed clocking, frequency synthesis, and/or clock and data recovery for networking and I/O applications. Accurate noise analysis of these circuits has been a significant challenge, making it difficult to achieve target design specifications under the constraints of area, power, supply voltage, and process technology. By delivering fast and accurate noise analysis, Berkeley Design Automation’s phase noise and jitter analysis technology provides an extremely useful tool in the design of today’s most complex high-performance analog circuits.”