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Niigata-Seimitsu
Adopts Full Suite of Berkeley Design Automation Tools
Verifies CMOS Tuner ICs with Full
SPICE Accuracy 5X-10X Faster
Santa Clara, CA, —April 2, 2007— Berkeley Design Automation Inc.,
provider of
Precision Circuit Analysis™ technology for advanced analog and RF
integrated
circuits, today announced that Niigata Seimitsu Co. Ltd, a leading
fabless
semiconductor manufacturer for consumer electronics markets, has
adopted the
company’s Analog FastSPICE™ , RF FastSPICE™, and PLL
Noise Analyzer ™ products. These products enable Niigata-Seimitsu to
verify nanometer-scale
GHz analog and RF circuits in a fraction of the time required by
traditional circuit
and RF simulation tools.
"Developing
complex consumer TV tuner ICs is extremely challenging due to the
circuit
complexity required for miniaturization” said Hiroshi Miyagi, Chief
Technology
Officer of Niigata Seimitsu. “As we push the limits of CMOS
integration, we run
into substantial analog and RF circuit simulation runtime and accuracy
problems
with traditional tools. Berkeley Design Automation’s tool suite
provides us a tremendous
improvement in productivity by delivering more than 5 times faster
verification
with full SPICE accuracy. This enables Niigata Seimitsu to accelerate
our rate
of innovation and deliver products to market faster in the highly
competitive TV
tuner market.”
Berkeley Design
Automation’s Precision Circuit
Analysis tool suite is proven on a wide range of circuits including
wireless
transceivers, wireline transceivers, high-speed I/Os, power regulators,
sigma-delta ADCs, memory interfaces, and multi-GHz PLLs and DLLs.
Analog
FastSPICE delivers full SPICE accuracy, 5X-10X performance, and vastly
superior
DC convergence compared to traditional SPICE tools. By solving the
original
device equations without any approximations, abstractions, or short
cuts, the tool
delivers identical waveforms as traditional SPICE simulators at every
node on
every run. Similarly, RF FastSPICE delivers
breakthrough periodic steady state (PSS) convergence and 5x-10x faster
periodic
analysis for highly nonlinear single-block and multi-block RF circuits.
The
company’s PLL Noise Analyzer uses a proprietary Stochastic Nonlinear
Engine ™
to provide the industry’s only closed-loop, non-approximate phase noise
analysis for integer-N PLLs. The tool’s accuracy is silicon validated
to within
1dB relative accuracy.
“We
are delighted that Niigata-Seimitsu, a leading developer of CMOS TV
tuners, has
selected Analog FastSPICE, RF FastSPICE, and PLL Noise Analyzer” said
Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley
Design Automation. “Niigata Seimitsu is a true innovator in the RF CMOS
arena.
Their selection of our full line of products is strong validation of
our
Precision Circuit Analysis technology and the tremendous value it can
deliver
to any design team developing complex semiconductors for consumer
electronics.”
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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