Simulator accelerates receiver IC verification

Analog FastSpice enables SiPort's designers to verify their digital multimedia broadcast receiver designs in a fraction of the time required by traditional Spice tools.

SiPort, a fabless semiconductor company developing silicon to receive digital multimedia broadcast for the mobile market, is using the Analog FastSpice circuit simulator from Berkeley Design Automation.

Analog FastSpice enables SiPort's designers to verify their digital multimedia broadcast receiver designs with true Spice accuracy in a fraction of the time required by traditional Spice tools.

"We have very challenging and demanding analogue/RF verification requirements for our mobile receiver SoC designs", says Julian Tham, Vice President, RF and Mixed-Signal Design for SiPort.

"We use Analog FastSpice for our critical complex blocks and even our full transceivers".

"It delivers identical results 5-9X faster than traditional Spice simulators on our larger circuits".

Berkeley Design Automation tools include Analog FastSpice circuit simulation, RF FastSpice periodic analyser, and PLL Noise analyser.

The company guarantees identical waveforms to the leading "golden" Spice simulators down to noise floor (typically 0.1%) while delivering 5-10x higher performance and 5x-10x higher capacity.

It achieves this by using advanced algorithms and numerical analysis techniques to rapidly solve the full-circuit matrix and the original device equations without any shortcuts that could compromise accuracy.

Design teams from top-10 semiconductor companies to leading startups use Berkeley Design Automation tools to solve big analogue/RF verification problems.

Typical applications include characterising complex blocks (such as PLLs, ADCs, DC/DC convertors, PHYs and Tx/Rx chains) and running performance simulation of full circuits (including wireless transceivers, wireline transceivers, high-speed I/O macros, memories, microcontrollers, data convertors and power convertors).

"We are delighted that SiPort has chosen Analog FastSpice for verifying their digital multimedia broadcast receivers for the mobile market", says Ravi Subramanian, President and CEO of Berkeley Design Automation.

"Achieving highest reception performance at a reasonable cost for digital multimedia broadcast for the mobile market is very challenging".

"SiPort's selection of Analog FastSpice is strong validation of our technology and the competitive advantage it provides to companies developing complex semiconductor solutions for the consumer electronics market".

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