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Berkeley
Design Automation Selected by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
for Digital-RF Chip Design Platform
Partnership Brings
World’s Leading Consumer Electronics Company Significantly Faster
Verification of Wireless ICs
Santa Clara, CA, — September 18,
2007— Berkeley Design Automation Inc., provider of Precision Circuit
Analysis™ technology for advanced analog and RF integrated circuits,
today announced that Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (NYSE:
MC), the world’s leading consumer electronics company, has
entered into a partnership for analog/RF and mixed-signal design
verification for Matsushita’s Digital-RF Chip Design Platform.
The partnership is based on the technology from Berkeley Design
Automation’s Analog FastSPICE™ and RF FastSPICE™ tools which provide
full SPICE accuracy, with 5x-10x faster speed and 5x-10x higher
effective capacity than traditional circuit and RF simulation.
Matsushita’s design teams will use this capability to further its lead
in complex digital-RF ICs for mobile communications and digital TV.
“Digital-RF designs are a differentiated and critical component of our
consumer wireless electronics products,” said Dr. Hiroaki Kosugi,
Director Digital-RF Development Office, Corporate R&D at Matsushita
Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. “The current situation for developing
products based on digital-RF technology involves many silicon re-spins
- resulting in higher design costs, delays in volume production, and
over-design. The situation must change, and a major breakthrough is
needed in the design platform for digital-RF IC designs.”
“Berkeley Design Automation is an essential partner for us in
achieving success in the development of digital-RF designs,” Dr. Kosugi
added. “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.”
Analog FastSPICE and RF FastSPICE use 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 circuit and RF simulation tools. By solving the
original device equations without any approximations, abstractions, or
short cuts, these products deliver full silicon accuracy at every node
on every run. The products are already proven on a wide range of
circuits including wireless and wireline transceivers (including
RF-CMOS), 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.
“It’s a significant milestone for BDA to be selected by Matsushita as a
partner in the development and deployment of their Digital-RF design
flow.” said Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley Design
Automation. “As the leading consumer electronics company in the world,
Matsushita had stringent requirements for the design and verification
of a wide range of consumer product ICs based on their next-generation
digital-RF technology. The partnership between Matsushita and Berkeley
Design Automation in this area further validates the impact our
technology is having in enabling next-generation analog and RF circuit
design.”
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
capacity 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 Co. Ltd., 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
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