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Berkeley Design Automation and Solido
Design Automation
Accelerate Nanometer IC Variation Analysis
SANTA CLARA,
CA, — January 26, 2010— Berkeley Design Automation, Inc.,
provider of the Analog FastSPICE™ unified circuit verification
platform (AFS Platform), and Solido Design Automation, provider of
Variation Designer, today announced a validated flow for rapid
reduction in variation risk in nanometer designs at the transistor
level. Driven by demand by a leading fabless semiconductor provider,
the companies have proven a solution in which Variation Designer
utilizes the AFS Platform. The result is variation analysis
capabilities that enable designers to rapidly reduce variation risk.
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 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.
"Rapidly eliminating yield losses due to process variation in nanometer
analog, mixed-signal, and RF designs is a key requirement for
high-volume nanometer ICs,” said Ravi Subramanian, president and
CEO of Berkeley Design Automation. “The excellent results from
the proven Solido Variation Designer integration with the Berkeley
Design Automation AFS Platform will provide our mutual customers a
dramatic increase in productivity and design turn-around-time.”
Variation Designer, along with Solido’s PVT (process, voltage,
temperature) Corner, Statistical, and Proximity applications packages
can be deployed for transistor level design to account for global,
local, environmental and proximity related variation effects. The
benefit of these solutions is improved designs and reduced variation
risk in less time. Variation Designer is used across the transistor
level design cycle – from PVT corner simulations to statistical
analysis – to determine mismatch effects or yield.
"Variation Designer provides a scalable and extensible solution for
solving problems created by process variation in nanometer designs at
the transistor level,” said Amit Gupta, president and CEO of
Solido Design Automation. “When using the AFS Platform as the
simulation engine in Variation Designer, we are able to deliver a fast
variation analysis and fix capability. Our mutual customers will
directly benefit from the performance improvement of the combined flow."
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 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, NTT Corporation, IT-Farm Corporation, and MUFJ
Capital. For more information, visit http://www.berkeley-da.com.
About Solido
Design Automation
Solido Design Automation, Inc. (Solido)
provides software for reducing variation risk in nanometer designs at
the transistor level. Solido’s Variation Designer and application
packages are used by analog/RF, IO, memory and standard cell digital
designers to achieve better designs with reduced variation risk in less
time. The privately held company is venture capital funded and has
offices in the U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Europe. For further
information, visit www.solidodesign.com or call 306-382-4100.
Analog FastSPICE, AFS Nano, and WaveCrave 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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