Raydium Semiconductor, an IC solution provider for TFT-LCD panels, has chosen Berkeley Design Automation’s Analog FastSPICE (AFS) Platform, which is recognized as the fastest nanometer circuit verification in the world for RF, analog, mixed-signal, and custom digital circuits.
Raydium Semiconductor will use the AFS Platform for full-circuit verification and block-level characterization in its power management ICs, display panel timing controller, and TFT-LCD panel driver.
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. For larger circuits, the platform provides mixed- analog-digital co-simulation and greater than 10M-element capacity, the quickest near-SPICE-accurate simulation in the industry, with Verilog simulators. Existing licenses comprise AFS Nano SPICE, AFS Co-Simulation, AFS RF Analysis, AFS Transient Noise Analysis and AFS circuit simulation.
Berkeley Design Automation’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Ravi Subramanian stated that the AFS Platform’s selection by Raydium Semiconductor corroborates that Berkeley Design Automation is an important partner to major display electronic companies.
Raydium Semiconductor’s Vice President, Dr. Chin-Chieh Chao commented that the company gives precedence to innovation and quality, and needed a circuit verification flow that offered a combination of better price, performance and SPICE accuracy. The company conducted comprehensive verification standards with complicated analog circuits aimed at TFT-LCD applications such as CDR circuits comprising DLLs and PLLs. The AFS Platform surpassed the company’s expectations by providing SPICE accuracy 5x quicker when compared to its current limited-accuracy digital fastSPICE simulator.
Source: http://www.berkeley-da.com