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Berkeley Design Automation
Certified for
TSMC’s 40/65 Nanometer Circuits
SPICE Tool
Qualification Program Improves Accuracy and Enables Faster
Time-to-Market
Santa Clara, CA, — May 16, 2008- Berkeley Design Automation
Inc.,
provider of Precision Circuit Analysis™ technology for
advanced
analog and RF integrated circuits (ICs), today announced that its
Analog FastSPICE™ circuit simulator is qualified through
TSMC’s 40/65-Nanometer SPICE Tool Qualification Program. The
program improves simulation accuracy, shortens transistor-level
simulation cycle time, and increases simulation capacity for high
performance digital circuits and mixed-signal RF designs.
"Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE met the 40 Nanometer SPICE
Tool certification requirements on device model certification and SPICE
netlist compatibility qualification,” said Tom Quan, Deputy
Director of Design Service Marketing at TSMC.
Berkeley Design Automation tools include Analog FastSPICE™
circuit
simulation, Noise Analysis Option™ device noise analyzer, 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 5 to 10 times
higher performance and 5 to 10 times 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).
"Our qualification and certification via the TSMC 40/65-Nanometer SPICE
Tool Qualification Program is a very important milestone to support our
mutual customers’ continued success," said Ravi Subramanian,
president and CEO of Berkeley Design Automation. "The timing of this
qualification of Analog FastSPICE by TSMC is especially important
because of the growing number of nanometer analog, RF, and mixed-signal
design starts requiring true SPICE accuracy, unparalleled performance,
and capacity for complex analog/RF verification."
About
TSMC
Active Accuracy Assurance Initiative
TSMC AAA initiative is a
broad-based program that encompasses all components of the design
ecosystem. It provides standards of accuracy to all TSMC partners,
including EDA vendors, IP providers and library developers, and Design
Center Alliance (DCA) partners. TSMC applies the same standards to
tools, building blocks, and technologies, including TSMC Reference Flow
8.0, design for manufacturing (DFM) tools, process design kits (PDK),
design support and backend services.
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, Noise Analysis Option, 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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