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BitWave
Semiconductor Selects Berkeley Design Automation Analog
FastSPICE™ and Noise Analysis Option™ for Programmable CMOS
RF Transceiver Verification
Tools Deliver True SPICE Accurate Results for Complex Low-Power Analog/RF Circuits
Santa Clara, CA, — August 22, 2008— Berkeley Design
Automation Inc., provider of Precision Circuit Analysis™
technology for advanced analog and RF integrated circuits (ICs), today
announced that BitWave Semiconductor, Inc., a fabless semiconductor
company and innovator of programmable radio frequency integrated
circuits (RFIC), has selected the company's Analog FastSPICE™
circuit simulator and Noise Analysis Option™ device noise
analyzer for verification and noise analysis of their programmable CMOS
RF transceiver.
"Verifying our programmable CMOS RF transceivers requires full-circuit
simulation and transistor-level noise analysis,” said Geoff Dawe,
CTO at BitWave. “We selected Analog FastSPICE for our
next-generation products after verifying its true SPICE accuracy and
performance on our current products. We also chose the Noise Analysis
Option so we could perform transistor-level device noise analysis on
our complex analog/RF circuits including ADCs, mixers, and PLLs."
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 true SPICE accuracy, defined as 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 excited that BitWave Semiconductor has selected Analog
FastSPICE and Noise Analysis Option for their programmable CMOS RF
transceiver," said Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley
Design Automation. "Delivering high performance, low-power
multi-standard programmable RF transceivers is a tremendous challenge.
BitWave's selection of Berkeley Design Automation tools further
validates the strong competitive advantage our Precision Circuit
Analysis technology provides to leading-edge designers of
highly-integrated analog/ RF transceivers."
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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