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News Release from: Berkeley Design Automation | Subject: Analog FastSpice
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 31 October 2007
WiMAX designers find faster recipe for
Spice
Beceem's design teams can now complete full WiMAX transceiver circuit verification as well as verify complex blocks 5-10x faster.
Beceem Communications has adopted the Analog FastSpice circuit simulator from Berkeley Design Automation With Analog FastSpice, Beceem's design teams can now complete full WiMAX transceiver circuit verification as well as verify complex blocks 5-10x faster - both with the accuracy needed to ensure highest chipset performance
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 Jul 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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"By greatly improving the speed of our top level simulations we are now able to run larger sections of our chip and evaluate even more corner cases", says Stephen Lloyd, Vice President of Engineering for Beceem Communications.
"With Analog FastSpice, we can verify our complete WiMAX transceiver with full Spice accuracy which was impossible with other simulators".
"We are also able to slash the long verification times for our complex analogue and RF blocks by more than 5x - again with full Spice accuracy".
Analog FastSpice uses Berkeley Design Automation's proprietary Precision Circuit Analysis technology to deliver full SPICE accuracy, 5-10x faster and with 5-10x higher effective capacity than traditional Spice tools.
By solving the original device equations without any approximations, abstractions, or short cuts, Analog FastSpice delivers identical waveforms as traditional Spice simulators at every node on every run.
The product is already proven on a wide range of circuits including wireless and wireline transceivers, high-speed I/Os, power regulators, LCD-TV source drivers, memory interfaces, PLLs (phase-locked loops), DLLs (delay-locked loops), sigma-delta ADC (analogue-to-digital convertors) and memories.
"We are delighted that Beceem Communications has selected Analog FastSpice for their mobile WiMAX chipset verification", said Ravi Subramanian, President and CEO of Berkeley Design Automation.
"Delivering high performance for full-featured Mobile WiMAX subscriber equipment is a tremendous challenge involving advanced multi-antenna RF technologies".
"Beceem's selection of Analog FastSpice further validates the strong competitive advantage our Precision Circuit Analysis technology provides to leading-edge designers of highly-integrated analogue/ RF transceivers".
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