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Beceem Communications Selects Berkeley
Design Automation Analog FastSPICE™ for Mobile WiMAX Chipsets
Tool Delivers Top Level
Verification of Full Wireless Transceiver
Santa Clara, CA, — October 30,
2007— Berkeley Design Automation, Inc., provider of Precision Circuit
Analysis™ technology for advanced analog and RF integrated circuits,
today announced that Beceem Communications, a leading provider of
baseband and radio chipsets for Mobile WiMAX technology, has
adopted the company's Analog FastSPICE™ circuit simulator. With Analog
FastSPICE, Beceem's design teams can now complete full WiMAX
transceiver circuit verification as well as verify complex blocks
5x-10x faster – both with the accuracy needed to ensure highest chipset
performance.
"By greatly improving the speed of our top level simulations we are now
able to run larger sections of our chip and evaluate even more corner
cases," said Stephen Lloyd, vice president of engineering for Beceem
Communications. "With Analog FastSPICE, we can verify our complete
WiMAX transceiver with full SPICE accuracy which was impossible with
other simulators. We are also able to slash the long verification times
for our complex analog and RF blocks by more than 5x – again with full
SPICE accuracy."
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 Beceem Communications has selected Analog
FastSPICE for their mobile WiMAX chipset verification," said Ravi
Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley Design Automation.
"Delivering high performance for full-featured Mobile WiMAX subscriber
equipment is a tremendous challenge involving advanced multi-antenna RF
technologies. Beceem's selection of Analog FastSPICE further validates
the strong competitive advantage our Precision Circuit Analysis
technology provides to leading-edge designers of highly-integrated
analog/ RF transceivers."
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 Co. Ltd., and NTT Corporation. For more information,
see http://www.berkeley-da.com.
About Beceem
Communications
Beceem Communications Inc. is the
leading provider of semiconductor solutions for the mobile broadband
market, and the first with commercially available terminal chipsets for
Wave 1 and Wave 2 profiles of the WiMAX Forum, that are based on the
IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard. For more information, please visit the
company's website at http://www.beceem.com
"WiMAX Forum" is a registered
trademark of the WiMAX Forum. "WiMAX," the WiMAX Forum logo, "WiMAX
Forum Certified," and the WiMAX Forum Certified logo are trademarks of
the WiMAX Forum. All other trademarks are the properties of their
respective owners.
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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