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SiTime
Adopts Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE™ Platform
with AFS Nano™
Tools Enable Superior
Verification Efficiency for MEMs-based Silicon
Timing Solutions
Santa Clara, CA, — March 10, 2009— Berkeley Design
Automation Inc., provider of the Analog FastSPICE™ unified
circuit verification platform for advanced analog and RF integrated
circuits (ICs), today announced that SiTime Corporation, a leading
provider of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) based silicon
timing solutions has adopted the company's Analog FastSPICE™
unified verification platform including the AFS Nano SPICE simulator
for verifying its advanced timing circuits.
"SiTime requires extremely accurate and rigorous verification for our
state-of-the-art MEMS-based silicon timing solutions," said Fari
Assaderaghi, Ph.D., vice president of engineering at SiTime. "The
Analog FastSPICE Platform enables us to verify our circuits much more
efficiently at the block, complex-block, and full-circuit
level—including verifying aspects that were previously
impractical or impossible. We successfully used the Analog FastSPICE
circuit simulator, AFS Co-Simulation, and the Noise Analysis Option
extensively on our most recent design."
Analog FastSPICE is the industry’s only unified circuit
verification platform for analog, mixed-signal, and RF design. Always
delivering true SPICE accurate results, it provides 5x-10x higher
performance than traditional SPICE, >1 million-element capacity, and
the industry’s only comprehensive 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. AFS Platform tools
include: AFS Nano SPICE simulator, Analog FastSPICE circuit simulator,
Noise Analysis Option™ device noise analyzer, and RF
FastSPICE™ multi-tone periodic analyzer.
"We are excited that SiTime has selected our complete Analog FastSPICE
platform for their verification flow," said Ravi Subramanian, president
and CEO of Berkeley Design Automation. "SiTime designs some of the most
innovative integrated circuits in the world. Our Analog FastSPICE
unified verification platform enabled them to verify critical aspects
of their MEMS-based designs that would otherwise be impossible or
impractical. Their ability to quickly make extensive use of nearly
every aspect of the AFS Platform demonstrates the power of our
single-executable approach to design teams worldwide."
About
Berkeley
Design Automation
Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. is the
recognized leader in advanced analog, mixed-signal, and RF (AMS/RF)
verification. Its Analog FastSPICE unified circuit verification
platform combines the accuracy, performance, and capacity needed to
verify GHz designs in nanometer-scale silicon. Design teams from top-10
semiconductor companies to leading startups 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 Corp., and NTT Corp. For more information, see
http://www.berkeley-da.com.
About SiTime
SiTime Corporation develops MEMS-based
silicon timing solutions. SiTime addresses the $5B timing market with
leadership products that are the smallest, thinnest, most robust,
reliable, configurable, and offer the shortest lead times. The
company’s solutions are the heartbeat of cutting-edge electronic
products, such as fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) equipment, computing
devices, graphics cards, disk drives, mobile phones and high capacity
SIM cards.
Analog FastSPICE, AFS Nano, Noise Analysis Option, RF FastSPICE, PLL
Noise Analyzer, WaveCrave, and Precision Circuit Analysis 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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