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Analog FastSPICE™ Breaks Verification
Barrier for Wideband RFCMOS Transceivers
First-Time-Ever
Full-Circuit Performance Simulation of PLL Synthesizer For Wideband
Satellite TV Tuner with True SPICE Accuracy
Santa Clara, CA, — March 25, 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 delivered an industry
first full-circuit PLL synthesizer performance simulation with true
SPICE accuracy. The application is a wideband RFCMOS satellite TV tuner
under development at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center at the
University of California Berkeley.
"We are doing pioneering work in the integration of the complete RF
front-end of a wideband satellite TV receiver (LNA, mixer, frequency
synthesizer) in CMOS technology. This integrated RFCMOS approach will
dramatically reduce the costs for such receivers while enabling
multi-standard, multi-network operation," said Ali Niknejad, Associate
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC
Berkeley, and co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center.
"With Analog FastSPICE, we were able to verify the complete 10GHz
full-circuit PLL synthesizer for this wideband satellite TV tuner at
the transistor-level with true SPICE accuracy which was impossible with
any other simulator."
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 very pleased with our cooperation with the Berkeley Wireless
Research Center," said Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley
Design Automation. "The center's on-going research on highly-integrated
wideband RFCMOS solutions with the lowest possible energy consumption
and advanced circuit architecture innovations pushes verification tools
to the limit. We are very proud that our Precision Circuit Analysis™
technology is an essential component of their success in developing
breakthrough RFCMOS architectures for next-generation wireless systems."
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 Berkeley
Wireless Research Center
The Berkeley Wireless Research Center is
a pioneer in a new wave of university-industry-government partnerships.
The Center is focused on forging deep relationships with leading
wireless companies so that industry can rapidly transfer new
technologies and university researchers can benefit from industrial
experience. BWRC provides an environment for research into the design
issues necessary to support next generation wireless communication
systems and expand the graduate research program in the wireless
segment. For more information, see http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/.
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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