Berkeley Design Automation has announced that Fujitsu Laboratories’ subsidiary, Fujitsu Laboratories of America has chosen Berkeley Design Automation’s Analog FastSPICE Platform, which is recognized as the fastest nanometer circuit verification platform in the world for RF, analog, mixed-signal and custom digital circuits.
Fujitsu Laboratories of America will use the Analog FastSPICE Platform for device noise analysis, block-level characterization and full-circuit post-layout verification for designing its high-speed CMOS transceivers.
William Walker, who is a Senior Research Fellow from Platform Technology Innovation Group at Fujitsu Laboratories of America, informed that the AFS platform is the only SPICE-accurate simulator that can validate lock and performance over a post-layout PLL. The AFS platform is capable of running highly accurate PLL characterization overnight when compared to a conventional SPICE simulator that runs for more than a week, resulting in improved productivity. Recently, a 10GHz 4-phase PLL developed for a 65 nm CMOS test chip and verified with AFS ran completely within spec.
The AFS platform offers foundry-verified nanometer SPICE accuracy, which is 5x-10x quicker when compared to other simulators on an individual core, and an extra 2x-4x performance with multithreading. It integrates only-one-of-its-kind silicon-accurate device noise analysis for circuit characterization and provides near-linear performance that increases with the count of cores. It provides mixed- analog-digital co-simulation and greater than 10M-element capacity, the quickest near-SPICE-accurate simulation of the industry with Verilog simulators for larger circuits. Existing licenses comprise AFS Nano SPICE, AFS Co-Simulation, AFS RF Analysis, AFS Transient Noise Analysis and AFS circuit simulation.
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