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Asahi Kasei EMD Selects Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE™ for Precision Mixed-Signal Simulation
Japan’s
Mixed-Signal/RF IC Leader Achieves Dramatically Faster Verification
Time and True SPICE Accuracy for Wireless, Consumer, and Automotive ICs
Santa Clara, CA, — November 18, 2008— Berkeley Design
Automation Inc., provider of Precision Circuit Analysis™
technology for advanced analog and RF integrated circuits (ICs), today
announced that Asahi Kasei EMD, a leading global supplier of
mixed-signal and RF integrated circuits for wireless, consumer
electronics, and automotive applications, has selected the company's
Analog FastSPICE™ circuit simulator for full-circuit functional
simulation and complex-block characterization of its mixed-signal and
RF integrated circuits. Asahi Kasei EMD is the core operating company
for all electronics materials and devices of the Asahi Kasei Group, and
has been one of Berkeley Design Automation’s earliest customers
in Japan.
“AKEMD has earned a worldwide reputation for outstanding
analog-digital mixed-signal/RF technology, and our products feature
high performance, high precision, high integration, and low power
consumption,” said Toshikazu Suzuki, Head Design Technology at
Asahi Kasei EMD. “Analog FastSPICE meets a critical need for our
mixed-signal/RF IC designers- super fast performance combined with true
SPICE accuracy- which was impossible with any other simulator. We
reduced simulation time for our complex ADCs, integer and
fractional PLLs, and transceivers by 5x-10x with true SPICE accuracy.
We have been able to easily integrate this into our proprietary design
flow, thereby reducing verification times for our
engineers developing complex mixed-signal circuits for wireless,
consumer, and networking applications.”
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 excited that Asahi Kasei EMD, a leading supplier of
complex mixed-signal and RF integrated circuits, has selected Analog
FastSPICE as a key component of their verification environment,”
said Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley Design Automation.
“Asahi Kasei EMD designs some of the most complex,
high-performance, low-power mixed-signal and RF integrated circuits in
the world. We are happy that Analog FastSPICE provides AKEMD with the
accuracy and performance required for the verification of these complex
circuits. We are delighted to see their continued confidence and
growing investment in our technology and products.”
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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