CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
25 January 2011
Product News
Berkeley Design Automation and Accelicon Technologies Accelerate SPICE Model Generation and Characterization
Berkeley Design Automation, Inc.and Accelicon Technologies, Inc., a leading device-modeling and PDK solutions and services provider, announced the support of Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE Platform in Accelicon's Model Quality Assurance (MQA) product.
Circuits implemented in nanometer-scale processes have increasingly tight specifications that design teams must meet despite increasing statistical and deterministic variation. Ensuring yield while meeting these requirements with minimal margin requires high correlation between actual silicon and nanometer circuit verification using advanced device models. Delivering this capability requires a high degree of cooperation and integration between leading modeling tool and nanometer circuit simulation providers. The integration of Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE with Accelicon MQA provides an important foundation to address this need.
"Mutual customers have requested support for the Analog FastSPICE Platform in MQA," said Tim K Smith, Accelicon’s CEO. "AFS accuracy and performance will maximize productivity of modeling engineers and designers using MQA for SPICE model validation and analysis, while ensuring outstanding correlation to silicon."
The Analog FastSPICE Platform is the industry’s only unified verification platform for nanometer analog, RF, mixed-signal, and custom digital circuits. The AFS Platform combines foundry-certified nm SPICE accuracy, 5x-10x faster single-core performance than any other SPICE circuit simulator, >10M-element capacity, and the industry’s only comprehensive silicon-accurate device noise analysis. The AFS Platform is a single executable that uses advanced algorithms and numerical analysis to rapidly solve the original device equations and full-circuit matrix without any approximations. It includes licenses for AFS Nano SPICE simulation, AFS circuit simulation, AFS Transient Noise Analysis, AFS RF Analysis, and AFS Co-Simulation.
"Accurate SPICE models are critical for IC designers, especially for nanometer high-precision analog, mixed-signal, and RF circuits," said Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley Design Automation. "The combination of our AFS Platform with Accelicon MQA establishes an excellent foundation for ensuring silicon correlation."
Accelicon sells the market-standard SPICE model validation and analysis solution, Model Quality Assurance (MQA), and leading SPICE model generation software, Model Builder Program (MBP). MQA provides a critical link between Fab and design, comparing, documenting, and validating foundry-supplied models. Differences between technology nodes, library versions, and even other foundry models can be assessed. MBP allows modeling engineer to tweak and optimize SPICE model library in order to best reflect silicon data and meet designer's particular requirement for a specific type of design.
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