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5 August 2009

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Berkeley Design Automation Authors Win 46th Design Automation Conference Best Paper Award

Berkeley Design Automation Inc., provider of the Analog FastSPICE™ unified circuit verification platform for advanced analog, mixed-signal, and RF integrated circuits (ICs), announced that the 46th Design Automation Conference (DAC) awarded Best Paper honors to Amit Mehrotra, CTO, Berkeley Design Automation and Abhishek Somani, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Berkeley Design Automation.

The winning paper, “A Robust and Efficient Harmonic Balance (HB) Using Direct Solution of HB Jacobian”, by Berkeley Design Automation authors, describes a novel direct solver harmonic balance simulation approach that is significantly faster than traditional Krylov solver harmonic balance simulation approaches for highly nonlinear circuits. Berkeley Design Automation will offer the technology as part of an upcoming release of its Analog FastSPICE platform.

“Of the 148 technical papers presented at the 46th DAC, 7 were nominated as best paper award candidates by the Technical Program Committee,” said Patrick Groeneveld, Technical Program co-chair, 46th DAC. “A committee of select experts has carefully reviewed these papers and has also attended the presentations at DAC. We traditionally pick two best papers awards each year. In 2009 one paper clearly stood out, so the committee selected it as the single best paper award winner.”

The Analog FastSPICE platform is the industry’s only unified circuit verification platform for analog, mixed-signal, and RF design. It 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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