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SiPort Selects Berkeley Design Automation
Analog FastSPICE™ for Mobile Digital Multimedia Broadcast
Receivers
Analog FastSPICE
Delivers True SPICE Accuracy 5x- 10x Faster for Full-Circuit Transceiver
Santa Clara, CA, — December 11, 2007— Berkeley Design Automation Inc.,
provider of Precision Circuit Analysis™ technology for advanced analog
and RF integrated circuits (ICs), today announced that SiPort Inc., a
fabless semiconductor company developing market leading silicon
solutions to receive digital multimedia broadcast for the mobile
market, has selected the company’s Analog FastSPICE™ circuit simulator.
Analog FastSPICE enables SiPort's designers to verify their digital
multimedia broadcast receiver designs with true SPICE accuracy in a
fraction of the time required by traditional SPICE tools.
"We have very challenging and demanding analog/RF verification
requirements for our mobile receiver SoC designs", said Julian Tham,
Vice President, RF and Mixed-Signal Design for SiPort. "We use Analog
FastSPICE for our critical complex blocks and even our full
transceivers. It delivers identical results 5X to 9X faster than
traditional SPICE simulators on our larger 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 delighted that SiPort has chosen Analog FastSPICE for verifying
their digital multimedia broadcast receivers for the mobile market,"
said Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley Design Automation.
"Achieving highest reception performance at a reasonable cost for
digital multimedia broadcast for the mobile market is very challenging.
SiPort’s selection of Analog FastSPICE is strong validation of our
technology and the competitive advantage it provides to companies
developing complex semiconductor solutions for the consumer electronics
market.”
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.
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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