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Future Waves Selects Berkeley Design
Automation Analog FastSPICE™ for Full-Circuit RF-CMOS Tuner IC
Verification
Tool Delivers True
SPICE Accuracy 5x-10x Faster for Mobile Digital Broadcasting Tuner ICs
Santa Clara, CA, — January 15, 2008— Berkeley Design Automation Inc.,
provider of Precision Circuit Analysis™ technology for advanced analog
and RF integrated circuits (ICs), today announced that Future Waves, a
cutting-edge fabless manufacturer of RF and mixed-signal ICs for next
generation digital communication and broadcast technologies, has
selected the company's Analog FastSPICE™ circuit simulator for
full-circuit performance simulation and complex-block characterization
of its mobile digital broadcasting circuits.
“Verifying our high-performance RF tuner for mobile digital
broadcasting requires transistor-level simulation at the full-circuit
level with true SPICE accuracy,” said Dr. Mark Dawkins, RF Systems
Director at Future Waves. “Analog FastSPICE reduced characterization
times for our complex-blocks such as frac-N PLLs and RF AGCs by 5x- 10x
with identical results to our traditional SPICE simulator. Analog
FastSPICE also delivered full-circuit performance simulations of our
entire digital RF tuner front-end with true SPICE accuracy, which was
impossible with any other simulator in any reasonable timescale.”
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% or less) 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 Future Waves has chosen Analog FastSPICE for the
verification of their RF-CMOS tuner solutions for mobile digital
broadcasting,” said Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley
Design Automation. “Future Wave’s selection of Analog FastSPICE is
strong validation of our technology and the competitive advantage it
provides to teams developing leading-edge 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
capacity needed to verify GHz designs in nanometer-scale silicon.
Berkeley Design Automation has received numerous awards including EDN
Magazine’s 2006 Innovation of the Year, the 2006 Red Herring 100 North
America, and the 2007 Red Herring Global 100 Finalist. 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
Future Waves
Future Waves is a cutting-edge designer
of RF and mixed-signal semiconductor components for next generation
digital communication and broadcast technologies. With a main base of
operations in Taiwan, Future Waves carries out RF/analogue design and
R&D in the UK and holds offices in China and Korea to provide sales
and customer support to our partners and customers in these regions.
Future Waves targets RF CMOS digital tuners for portable applications
and provides the most flexible RF solution in addition to industry
leading performance regarding power consumption, cost effectiveness and
ease of use. Additional information about Future Waves is available at
www.f-waves.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. 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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