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Berkeley
Design Automation’s Analog
FastSPICETM Selected
by Atheros
Full SPICE Accuracy and 5X-10X
Performance Dramatically Reduce Verification Time
Santa
Clara, CA, —March 6, 2007— Berkeley Design Automation Inc., provider of
Precision Circuit Analysis™ technology for advanced analog and RF
integrated
circuits, today announced that Atheros Communications, Inc., a leading
developer of semiconductor system solutions for advanced wireless
communication
products, has adopted the company’s Analog FastSPICE™ circuit
simulator. Analog
FastSPICE enables Atheros’ designers to verify their nanometer-scale
GHz analog
and RF circuits in a fraction of the time required by traditional SPICE
tools.
“The
analog and RF circuits in our XSPAN™ and ROCm™ chipsets run at a wide
range of
frequencies from MHz to multi-GHz. ” said Srenik Mehta, director of
analog
design engineering for Atheros. “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 uses Berkeley Design Automation’s
proprietary Precision Circuit Analysis™ technology to deliver full
SPICE
accuracy, 5X to 10X performance, and extremely robust DC convergence
compared
to traditional SPICE tools – all without block-level tuning. The tool
uses the
original device equations without any approximations, abstractions, or
short
cuts, so it delivers identical waveforms as SPICE at every node on
every run.
It is ideal for simulations that take hours, days, or weeks in
traditional
SPICE simulators. In addition to leading-edge cellular and WLAN
wireless
transceivers, Analog FastSPICE has been proven on a wide range of
production
circuits including high-speed IOs, wireline transceivers, power
regulators,
sigma-delta ADCs, memory interfaces, and multi-GHz PLLs and DLLs.
“We are extremely pleased that Atheros, a leader in the WLAN industry,
has chosen Analog FastSPICE,” said Ravi Subramanian,
president and CEO of Berkeley Design Automation. “Meeting the stringent
requirements of the leading-edge analog/RF design teams at Atheros is
strong
validation of our Precision Circuit Analysis technology and the value
it can
deliver in the design of complex semiconductors for wireless
communications.”
About Berkeley
Design Automation
Berkeley Design Automation Inc. is the recognized leader in advanced
analog/RF verification. Its Precision Circuit Analysis technology
combines the accuracy, performance, and robustness needed to verify GHz
designs in nanometer-scale silicon. Berkeley Design Automation is the
recipient of the 2006 Red Herring 100 North America Award, making it
the first EDA company to earn such a distinction in 5 years. Founded in
2003, the company is funded by Woodside Fund, Bessemer Venture
Partners, Matsushita Electric Industrial, and NTT Corporation. For more
information, see http://www.berkeley-da.com.
Analog FastSPICE, RF FastSPICE,
PLL Noise Analyzer, and Precision
Circuit Analysis are trademarks and Berkeley Design is a registered
trademark of Berkeley Design Automation, Inc.
HSPICE is a registered trademark of Synopsys Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS).
Spectre is a registered trademark of Cadence Design Systems Inc.
(NASDAQ:CDNS).
PR for Berkeley Design Automation – Cayenne Communication LLC
Michelle
Clancy, 252-940-0981, michelle.clancy@cayennecom.com
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