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Berkeley
Design Automation Delivers Analog FastSPICE Platform
with 2x Higher Performance and 10x Higher Capacity
New Release Provides
>2x Verification Efficiency versus Traditional Circuit Simulators
Santa Clara,
CA, — May 12, 2009— Berkeley Design Automation Inc.,
provider of the Analog FastSPICE™ (AFS) unified circuit
verification platform today announced its 2009_05 major release. Within
a single executable, the AFS Platform enables analog, mixed-signal, and
RF design teams to verify what would otherwise require numerous
simulators. With this release the AFS Platform delivers
foundry-certified true SPICE accuracy 5x-20x faster than traditional
SPICE for every type of analysis on circuits with up to 10 million
elements. The result is proven 2x higher efficiency versus tradition
circuit simulators.
The new AFS Platform release includes:
- New AFS Mega-Solver matrix solvers that
deliver efficient convergence and fast transient analysis for
pre-layout and post-layout circuits with up to 10M elements.
- New AFS Multi-Core capability which
provide up to an additional 2x or higher performance than
single-threaded Analog FastSPICE when run on up to 4 cores.
- Enhanced Monte Carlo analysis that
supports all commonly used features, including Latin Hypercube
Sampling, in the industry's leading netlist styles.
- WaveCrave™ waveform processor
enhancements that provide improved performance, advanced RF calculator
functions, 64-bit capacity, and enhanced output file support.
- New "master" licenses that enable
unlimited use of the company's true SPICE accurate Noise Analysis
Option™ and AFS Co-Simulation option.
"Our design verification flow has to be extremely efficient to maintain
our technological leadership in RF silicon solutions for the consumer
and automotive electronics markets," said Kim Beumer, Director IC
Design at Microtune®, Inc. "With the AFS Platform we are getting up
to 5 to 10x faster true SPICE accurate results at the block,
complex-block, and full-circuit levels. When running the AFS Platform
with co-simulation on our full-circuit we are seeing up to 100x
speed-up over traditional SPICE with identical results."
"At Axiom we have been using Analog FastSPICE for over two years for
verification of our fully integrated CMOS power amplifiers for mobile
handsets and we typically get 5x-10x faster results than traditional
SPICE simulators with identical waveforms," said David Kang, Vice
President of Engineering for Axiom Microdevices. "The AFS Platform
enables our design teams to be much more productive. With the addition
of AFS Nano, it now addresses our needs for block, complex block, and
full-circuit design verification with true SPICE accuracy and within a
single executable."
Analog FastSPICE is the industry's only unified circuit verification
platform for analog, mixed-signal, and RF design. Always delivering
true SPICE accurate results, it provides 5x-20x higher performance than
traditional SPICE, >10 million-element capacity, and the industry's
only comprehensive noise analysis. The AFS Platform is a single
executable that uses advanced algorithms and numerical analysis to
rapidly solve the full-circuit matrix and original device equations
without any shortcuts. AFS Platform tools include: AFS Nano SPICE
simulator, Analog FastSPICE circuit simulator, Noise Analysis
Option™ device noise analyzer, and RF FastSPICE™ multi-tone
periodic analyzer.
"AMS/RF design teams need to work as efficiently as possible to do more
with their scarce resources- and this is true now more than ever
before," said Ravi Subramanian, President and CEO of Berkeley Design
Automation. "Never sacrificing accuracy, performance, capacity, or
functionality, the AFS Platform enables design teams to perform the
fastest iterations, deepest physical analyses, most rigorous
characterization, and most comprehensive verification possible."
About
Berkeley
Design Automation
Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. is the
recognized leader in advanced analog, mixed-signal, and RF (AMS/RF)
verification. Its Analog FastSPICE unified circuit verification
platform combines the accuracy, performance, and capacity needed to
verify GHz designs in nanometer-scale silicon. Design teams from top-10
semiconductor companies to leading startups use the AFS Platform to
efficiently verify AMS/RF circuits. Founded in 2003, the company has
received several industry awards in recognition of its technology
leadership and impact on the electronics industry. The company is
privately held and backed by Woodside Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners,
Panasonic Corporation, and NTT Corporation For more information,
see http://www.berkeley-da.com.
Analog FastSPICE, AFS Nano, Noise Analysis Option, RF FastSPICE, PLL
Noise Analyzer, WaveCrave, and Precision Circuit Analysis are
trademarks of Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. Berkeley Design and BDA
are registered trademarks 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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