|
« back to Press Releases main
Toshiba Adopts
Berkeley Design Automation’s Analog FastSPICE™
World’s Leading Supplier of Semiconductors for
Consumer Electronics Successfully Completes Previously Impractical and
Impossible IC Verification Tasks
SANTA CLARA, CA, —June 27, 2007— Berkeley Design Automation Inc.,
provider of Precision Circuit Analysis™ technology for advanced analog
and RF integrated circuits, today announced that Toshiba Corporation,
the world’s largest supplier of semiconductors for consumer
electronics, has adopted the company’s Analog FastSPICE™ circuit
simulator. With Analog FastSPICE, Toshiba’s design teams can now
complete analog circuit verification tasks that were previously
impractical or impossible. They have also reduced multi-day and
multi-hour simulation runtimes by at least 10x against multi-core
simulators while maintaining full SPICE accuracy.
"Berkeley Design Automation offers a breakthrough verification
technology that is critical for Toshiba's consumer electronics
business," said Tamotsu Hiwatashi, senior manager of planning
department, System LSI Design Department, System LSI Division of
Toshiba. “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."
Analog FastSPICE uses Berkeley Design Automation’s proprietary
Precision Circuit Analysis technology to deliver full SPICE accuracy,
5X to 10X faster and with 5X to 10X higher effective capacity than
traditional SPICE tools. By solving the original device equations
without any approximations, abstractions, or short cuts, Analog
FastSPICE delivers identical waveforms as traditional SPICE simulators
at every node on every run. The product is already proven on a wide
range of circuits including wireless and wireline transceivers,
high-speed I/Os, power regulators, LCD-TV source drivers, memory
interfaces, PLLs (phase-locked loops) , DLLs (delay-locked loops),
sigma-delta ADC (analog-to-digital converters), and memories.
“We are delighted that Toshiba, the world’s largest supplier of
semiconductors for consumer electronics, has selected Berkeley Design
Automation,” said Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley
Design Automation. “The results Toshiba obtained from the extensive
evaluation of Analog FastSPICE span a wide breadth of circuits across
consumer electronics and speak for themselves. Toshiba’s selection of
Analog FastSPICE is strong validation of our Precision Circuit Analysis
technology and the tremendous value it can deliver to the leading
companies developing consumer electronics ICs.”
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 EDN Magazine’s 2006
Innovation Award and the 2006 Red Herring 100 North America Award,
making it the first analog and RF EDA company to be honored with either
exclusive award in five 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). Any other trademarks or trade names
mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
PR for Berkeley Design Automation – Cayenne Communication LLC
Michelle
Clancy, 252-940-0981, michelle.clancy@cayennecom.com
|
