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Fresco
Microchip Selects Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE™
and Noise Analysis Option™ for Single-Chip Broadcast TV Receiver
Tools Deliver 5x-12x Faster Analog/RF Verification and Silicon-Accurate Noise Analysis
Santa Clara, CA, — September 16, 2008- Berkeley Design Automation
Inc., provider of Precision Circuit Analysis™ technology for
advanced analog and RF integrated circuits (ICs), today announced that
Fresco Microchip Inc., a developer of leading-edge digital/analog
broadcast TV receivers has adopted the company's Analog
FastSPICE™ circuit simulator and Noise Analysis
Option™ device noise analyzer for verification of their
nanometer-scale ICs .
"At Fresco we pride ourselves on being able to deliver high
performance, superior quality products to our customers whom are
addressing the growing analog-digital broadcast market," said Dr.
Stephen Jantzi, director of Analog/RF Design at Fresco Microchip. "Our
low-power, single-chip TV receivers require extensive complex-block
characterization, full-circuit performance simulation and
transistor-level noise analysis. Traditional and accelerated SPICE
tools do not have the capacity, performance, and accuracy for our
complex circuits. With Analog FastSPICE, we are characterizing our
complex analog/RF circuits 5x-12x faster than traditional SPICE with
true SPICE accuracy and are able to simulate top-level circuits. We use
the Noise Analysis Option on our sigma-delta ADC, and its results
correlate very well with silicon measurements."
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 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 delighted that Fresco Microchip has selected Analog FastSPICE
and Noise Analysis Option for their hybrid TV receiver verification
flow," said Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley Design
Automation. "Delivering critical semiconductors to bridge the
analog-digital broadcast TV divide around the world, is a tremendous
challenge involving advanced RF technologies. Fresco Microchip
selection of BDA tools further validates the strong competitive
advantage we provide to leading-edge designers of highly-integrated
analog/ RF applications."
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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