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 Berkeley Design Automation Analog
FastSPICE
Nano
Named EDN Hot 100 Electronic Product
Year of Awards
Capped
with $1,900 AFS Nano SPICE Simulator
Recognition
SANTA CLARA,
CA, — January 6, 2010— Berkeley Design Automation, Inc.,
provider of the Analog FastSPICE™ unified circuit verification
platform, today announced that EDN Magazine selected the
company’s Analog FastSPICE Nano (AFS Nano) SPICE simulator to its
2009 list of Hot 100 Electronic Products. Introduced in early 2009, AFS
Nano delivers foundry certified true SPICE accuracy 5x to 10x faster
than traditional SPICE simulators for block-level circuits—at a
groundbreaking price of only $1,900 per 1-year time-based license. This
Award caps a year in which the company was honored with the 46th Design
Automation Conference Best Paper Award and being named to the AlwaysOn
Global 250 and Silicon India 100.
Prior to AFS Nano, integrated circuit designers have had to use
traditional SPICE simulators which are 5x to 10x slower on complex
blocks and typically 5x to 10x more expensive. With AFS Nano they can
run DC, AC, .noise, transient, alters, sweeps, and Monte Carlo analyses
for only $1,900. As part of the Analog FastSPICE unified verification
platform, AFS Nano supports industry standard netlists, industry
standard models (including a wide range of device models, Verilog-A,
and S-parameters), and full integration into the industry’s
leading analog design environment. The majority of Berkeley Design
Automation customers – including 10 of the top 20 semiconductor
companies in the world – now use AFS Nano to speed block-level
design iterations and block-level characterization. Winning the EDN Hot
100 Award further validates the AFS Nano outstanding price/performance.
"To choose the 2009 lineup of the EDN Hot 100, EDN's editors examined
thousands of new products across 16 product categories," said Rick
Nelson, EDN editor-in-chief. "The AFS Nano SPICE simulator was one of
the outstanding product introductions in our EDA category."
In 2009, Berkeley Design Automation authors won the Best Paper Award
out of 148 technical papers presented at the 46th Design Automation
Conference. The paper describes a groundbreaking simulation approach
for RF circuits. The company was also named an AlwaysOn Global 250
Winner, an award given to the world’s top 250 private, emerging
technology companies creating new business opportunities in high-growth
markets, and was named a Silicon India 100 Winner by Silicon India
Magazine.
The Analog FastSPICE Platform (AFS Platform) is the industry’s
only unified circuit verification platform for analog, mixed-signal,
and RF design. It always delivers true SPICE accurate results, while
providing 5x-20x higher performance than traditional SPICE, >10
million-element capacity, and the industry’s only comprehensive
device 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 taking any
shortcuts. The AFS Platform includes licenses for AFS Nano SPICE
simulation, AFS circuit simulation, AFS Co-Simulation, AFS Transient
Noise Analysis, and AFS RF Analysis.
"We are honored to get the industry recognition we received in
2009,” said Ravi Subramanian, CEO of Berkeley Design Automation.
“These awards validate Berkeley Design Automation as the
technology leader, and the Analog FastSPICE Platform as the
next-generation platform for complex analog, mixed-signal, and RF
design. Adopted now by over 70 customers worldwide, including
fast-growing deployments at 15 of the world’s top 20
semiconductor companies, the Analog FastSPICE Platform has become an
essential part of companies’ efforts to retool for nanometer
mixed-signal integrated circuits. ”
About
Berkeley
Design Automation
Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. (BDA)
is the recognized leader in advanced analog, mixed-signal, and RF
(AMS/RF) verification. The BDA Analog FastSPICE unified circuit
verification platform (AFS Platform) combines the accuracy,
performance, and capacity needed to verify GHz designs in
nanometer-scale silicon. Over seventy companies, including 15 of the
world's top 20 semiconductor companies, use the AFS Platform to
efficiently verify AMS/RF circuits. Founded in 2003, the company is
privately held and backed by Woodside Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners,
Panasonic Corporation, NTT Corporation, IT-Farm Corporation, and MUFJ
Capital. For more information, visit http://www.berkeley-da.com.
Analog FastSPICE and AFS Nano 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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