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Berkeley Design Automation Analog
FastSPICE™ Selected by Next-Generation Japanese Supercomputer Project
for 45nm Verification
Tool to Verify Complex
Analog and Mixed-Signal Blocks on MDGRAPE-4 Project
Santa Clara, CA, — February 20, 2008— Berkeley Design Automation Inc.,
provider of Precision Circuit Analysis™ technology for advanced analog
and RF integrated circuits (ICs), today announced that the company's
Analog FastSPICE™ circuit simulator has been selected for complex
analog and mixed-signal block verification in a next-generation 45nm
supercomputer chip developed by the University of Tokyo and RIKEN.
“Berkeley Design Automation verification tools are critical to the
success of our next generation 45nm supercomputer project,” said
Professor Takashi Ikegami of the University of Tokyo. “Analog FastSPICE
delivered accuracy that is as good or better than traditional SPICE
5x-10x faster on our complex analog and mixed-signal blocks. Since we
cannot rely on digital fastSPICE approximations for these designs,
Analog FastSPICE enables us to perform verification tasks that were
previously impossible."
“Analog FastSPICE is allowing us to verify our analog and mixed-signal
blocks faster than we thought possible,” said Duraid Madina, also of
the University of Tokyo. “Analog FastSPICE is not only faster and more
accurate than our other SPICE tools – it is faster than digital
fastSPICE tools that cannot handle our mixed-signal designs. In our
testing, Analog FastSPICE was often 10x faster than the best
traditional SPICE, while giving identical results. We never observed a
difference greater than 0.15%.”
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 and honored to be selected by the consortium as the
circuit simulator of choice for the 45nm MDGRAPE-4 supercomputing
chip,” said Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley Design
Automation. “Our selection by this distinguished team is once again
proof that Berkeley Design Automation’s Precision Circuit Analysis™
technology is essential for success in nanometer analog/RF design.”
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.
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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