CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
19 May 2009
Implementation Investments
Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE™ Platform Adopted by Panasonic for Mass-Production of Mixed-Signal LSIs
Berkeley Design Automation Inc., provider of the Analog FastSPICE™ unified circuit verification platform for advanced analog and RF integrated circuits (ICs), announced that Panasonic Corporation, a world leader in products, systems, and components for consumer electronics, has selected the company's Analog FastSPICE™ platform for use in their production flow for verification of mixed-signal integrated circuits.
"We spend a significant amount of effort on mixed-signal verification and noise analysis of mixed-signal integrated circuits," said Masahiko Matsumoto, Director of the Analogue LSI Business Unit, Semiconductor Company, Panasonic Corporation. "After a rigorous evaluation of the Analog FastSPICE platform on a variety of mixed-signal integrated circuits, we have decided to deploy this platform for mass-production use in Panasonic."
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.
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