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PhaseLink Selects Berkeley Design
Automation Analog FastSPICE™ for Full-Circuit Verification of
Frequency Timing Generation ICs
Analog FastSPICE Proven
as the Only Tool Able to Validate Full-Circuit Power-Up Sequence with
True SPICE Accuracy
Santa Clara, CA, — November
13, 2007— Berkeley Design Automation Inc., provider of Precision
Circuit Analysis™ technology for advanced analog and RF integrated
circuits (ICs), today announced that PhaseLink Corporation, a fabless
semiconductor IC company specializing in high-performance frequency
timing generation solutions for digital consumer, communication, and
storage products, has selected the company’s Analog FastSPICE™ circuit
simulator for full-circuit performance simulation of its mixed signal
timing generation ICs.
"A few weeks before tape-out, we needed a tool that could accurately
verify the complete power-up sequence of our design including crystal
oscillator ramp-up, band-gap reference start-up, EPROM-driven
calibration of LC-VCO, and PLL locking sequence," said Pierre Guebels,
vice president of engineering at PhaseLink Corporation. "Analog
FastSPICE delivered full-circuit performance simulations of the entire
design, enabling us to verify our complete power-up sequence with true
SPICE accuracy, which was impossible with any other simulator. We were
very impressed that Analog FastSPICE worked right out of the box on our
leading-edge circuits."
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 startups
use Berkeley Design Automation tools to solve big analog/RF
verification problems. Typical applications include characterizing
complex 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).
"We are pleased that PhaseLink has selected Analog FastSPICE for
verifying their high-performance frequency timing generation products,"
said Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley Design Automation.
"Full-circuit performance simulation has become a key requirement for
clocking and timing applications and we are proud that PhaseLink has
added this capability to their verification flow via the adoption of
Analog FastSPICE.”
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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