| |
|
|
|
« back to Press Releases main
Berkeley Design Automation Delivers
Industry’s First True SPICE Accurate Simulator for >1M
Transistor Circuits
New 64-bit Analog
FastSPICETM Provides 5x-10x Higher Effective Capacity for Big Analog/RF
Verification
SANTA CLARA, CA, —October 23,
2007— Berkeley Design Automation, Inc., provider of Precision Circuit
Analysis™ technology for advanced analog and RF integrated circuits
(ICs), today announced the availability of a 64-bit version of
its Analog FastSPICE circuit simulator which delivers true SPICE
accuracy on >1M transistor circuits – an industry first. Combined
with the tool’s vastly superior DC convergence and 5x-10x performance
advantage, the 64-bit implementation gives Analog FastSPICE 5x-10x
higher effective capacity than any other true SPICE accurate simulator.
Berkeley Design Automation customers have proven this capability by
performing full-circuit DC operating point analysis, package analysis,
and performance simulations on some of the world’s most
highly-integrated analog/RF circuits, including 802.11 transceivers,
WCDMA transceivers, microcontrollers, data converters, multi-channel
power converters, and memories.
“We recently designed a wideband analog front-end IP for wireless
applications and we needed a tool to verify that our complete design
met spec prior to tapeout. The full-circuit included 10 simultaneously
operating 12-bit ADC’s and DAC’s,” said Mike Kappes, President of
IQ-Analog. “The 64-bit version of Analog FastSPICE was able to run
performance simulations of our complete wireless analog front-end -
including all ten ADCs/DACs, as well as packaging effects - with full
SPICE accuracy. We were able to fully validate the design to
specification prior to tapeout while other simulators failed to even
converge.”
Berkeley Design Automation tools include Analog FastSPICE circuit
simulation, RF FastSPICE periodic analyzer, and PLL Noise Analyzer™.
The company guarantees identical waveforms to the leading “golden”
SPICE simulators down to noise floor (typically ~0.1%) while delivering
5x-10x higher performance and 5x-10x higher capacity. It achieves this
by using advanced algorithms and numerical analysis techniques to
rapidly solve the full-circuit matrix and the original device equations
without any shortcuts that could compromise accuracy.
Design teams from top-10 semiconductor companies to leading-edge
start-ups use Berkeley Design Automation tools to solve big analog/RF
verification problems. Typical applications include characterizing
complex analog/RF blocks (e.g., PLLs, ADCs, DC:DC converters, PHYs,
Tx/Rx chains) and running performance simulation of full circuits
(e.g., wireless transceivers, wireline transceivers, high-speed I/O
macros, memories, microcontrollers, data converters, and power
converters).
“With 64-bit Analog FastSPICE, design teams are able to run
performance simulation of full circuits in designs greater than 1M
transistors, which allows them to see effects prior to tapeout that
they would otherwise see only in silicon”, said Ravi Subramanian,
president and CEO of Berkeley Design Automation. “We are proud that we
are able to deliver to our customers this breakthrough in how they can
verify their leading-edge analog/RF ICs. By providing capabilities that
other vendors cannot deliver, we continue to build a strong
customer-backed track record for providing a significant competitive
advantage to leading-edge analog/RF IC design teams worldwide.”
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
|
|
|
