CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
20 September 2004
Implementation Investments
Atheros Communications Adopts Synopsys' NanoSim for Advanced Wireless Chip Verification
Synopsys, Inc. announced that Atheros Communications, Inc., a provider of advanced wireless LAN chipsets, has adopted Synopsys' NanoSim® for RF front-end circuits verification of its AR5005G single-chip wireless solution. The chip is a multi-million-gate integrated circuit (IC) that supports the IEEE 802.11b and 802.11g protocols. Using NanoSim 2004.06, Atheros engineers now can perform RF front-end circuits verification of their complex mixed-signal devices to help ensure first silicon success.
"NanoSim has given us tremendous productivity and good accuracy with a 10X runtime improvement over SPICE-based simulators," said Rick Bahr, vice president of engineering at Atheros Communications. "With NanoSim, we were able to verify the entire synthesizer behavior of our AR5005G, the world's first single-chip IEEE 802.11g solution. We chose NanoSim as a verification tool because it could handle the size and complexity of our leading-edge, mixed-signal chip."
NanoSim is an advanced transistor-level fast SPICE simulation and analysis tool for analog, digital and mixed-signal design verification. With the 2004.06 release, NanoSim became the only fast SPICE simulator that directly uses foundry-certified HSPICE® models and model evaluation engine to provide accurate circuit simulation. It features high simulation throughput and capacity for multi-million transistor designs and simulation accuracy for the most advanced IC processes technologies in CMOS, BiCMOS, and SOI.
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