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CORRECTED:
October 16, 2007
Berkeley
Design Automation Analog FastSPICE™ Selected by Fujitsu for
Next-Generation Analog/RF & Mixed-Signal IC Design
Japan’s leading
supplier of mixed-signal semiconductor solutions achieves record 10x
faster verification with full SPICE accuracy on dozens of
high-precision analog simulations
Santa Clara, CA, — October 15,
2007— Berkeley Design Automation Inc., provider of Precision Circuit
Analysis™ technology for advanced analog and RF integrated circuits,
today announced that its Analog
FastSPICE™ circuit simulator has been adopted by Fujitsu Limited, one
of the
world’s leading
providers of customer-focused IT-networking and communications
solutions for the global marketplace. With Analog FastSPICE, Fujitsu’s
design
teams can now complete analog circuit verification tasks in record
time, without compromising accuracy. They have also been able to
complete verification tasks which were impossible with other simulators.
"Berkeley Design Automation offers an essential verification technology
that is critical to the success of analog and mixed-signal IP Macro
design in Fujitsu’s Electronic Devices Business Unit," said Yoshio
Watanabe, General Manager of the IP Platform Solutions Division,
Electronic Devices Business Group of Fujitsu Limited. “Our analog and
mixed-signal 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
significantly higher performance than digital fastSPICE simulators on a
wide variety of Fujitsu’s own analog and RF circuits. It also enables
us to solve problems we could not address before. We are now committed
to deploying this technology across our business."
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 (single and multi-channel DC:DC
converters), LCD-TV source drivers, memory interfaces, PLLs
(phase-locked loops), DLLs (delay-locked loops), sigma-delta ADC
(analog-to-digital converters), and memory interfaces.
“Fujitsu, a leading supplier of mixed-signal semiconductor solutions
for consumer electronics and networking, has been very successfully
using our technology on a number of silicon production
projects,” said Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley Design
Automation. “Following an extensive evaluation of Analog FastSPICE,
Fujitsu’s engineers saw for themselves that the tool delivers the speed
and accuracy benefits across a wide breadth of circuits. We are
delighted to see their continued confidence and further investment in
our technology and products.”
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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