CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
18 November 2008
Implementation Investments
Asahi Kasei EMD Selects Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE™ for Precision Mixed-Signal Simulation
Berkeley Design Automation Inc. 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.”
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