CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
11 September 2012
Implementation Investments
Cochlear Limited Selects Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE™ Platform for Implantable Hearing Solutions
Berkeley Design Automation, Inc., provider of nanometer circuit verification, today announced that Cochlear Limited, developer of implantable hearing solutions, has selected the company’s Analog FastSPICE (AFS) Platform for block-level characterization and full-circuit verification of their analog and mixed-signal implantable hearing integrated circuits.
“The implantable hearing solutions that Cochlear develops must undergo stringent circuit verification that requires nanometer SPICE accuracy,” said Jan Janssen, Senior Vice President, Design and Development, Cochlear. “We selected the AFS Platform, because it provides nanometer SPICE accuracy 5x to 10x faster than traditional SPICE for characterizing our high-gain high-accuracy analog blocks.”
The Analog FastSPICE Platform provides the world’s fastest circuit verification for nanometer analog, RF, mixed-signal, and custom digital circuits. Foundry certified to 20nm, the AFS Platform delivers nanometer SPICE accuracy 5x-10x faster on a single core and >2x faster on multicore systems versus any other simulator. For circuit characterization, the AFS Platform includes the industry’s only comprehensive silicon-accurate device noise analysis and delivers near-linear performance scaling with the number of cores. For large circuits, it delivers >10M-element capacity, the fastest near-SPICE-accurate simulation, and the fastest, most accurate mixed-signal simulation. Available licenses include AFS circuit simulation, AFS Transient Noise Analysis, AFS RF Analysis, AFS Co-Simulation, and AFS Nano SPICE.
“We are delighted that Cochlear selected the Analog FastSPICE Platform for the verification of their implantable hearing solutions,” said Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley Design Automation. “Cochlear’s selection further validates that Berkeley Design Automation is an essential partner to leading-edge companies designing innovative high-precision mixed-signal applications.”
For more information, visit www.berkeley-da.com.
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