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Spansion Selects Berkeley Design Automation
Analog FastSPICE™ for Multi-Chip-Package Performance Verification
Tool Drives Packaging
Yield Improvement with True SPICE Accuracy 5x-10x faster
Santa Clara, CA, — December 18, 2007— Berkeley Design Automation Inc.,
provider of Precision Circuit Analysis™ technology for advanced analog
and RF integrated circuits (ICs), today announced that Spansion, the
world's largest pure play provider of Flash memory solutions, has
selected the company’s Analog FastSPICE™ circuit simulator for
full-circuit verification of its Multi-Chip-Package (MCP) devices for
high-performance, low-power, small-footprint applications such as
cellular handsets, personal information devices, and GPS receivers.
“Verifying our leading-edge flash circuits with advanced multi-chip
packages requires transistor-level performance simulation with over
200,000 elements, including 142 mutual inductors,” said Jim Thomas,
corporate vice president of product development at Spansion.
“Traditional SPICE simulators cannot handle this complexity, and
digital fastSPICE simulators do not have the required accuracy. Analog
FastSPICE can produce true SPICE accurate results for this critical
application. AFS completes what is otherwise impossible in less than 9
hours.”
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 excited that Spansion is extending the adoption of Analog
FastSPICE to additional areas of their verification environment,” said
Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley Design Automation.
“Full-circuit performance simulation is a key requirement for yield
management in multi-chip-packages applications, and we are delighted
that Analog FastSPICE provides Spansion with an accurate and efficient
verification capability for this need.”
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, WaveCrave, 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.
Spansion®, the Spansion logo, MirrorBit®, MirrorBit®
Eclipse™, ORNAND™, HD-SIM™ and combinations thereof, are trademarks of
Spansion LLC in the U.S. and other countries. Other names used are for
informational purposes only and may be trademarks 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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