ACCO Design Chooses Xpedion For RFIC Simulation; GoldenGate Delivers Fast and Accurate Results on Complete Receiver Circuits.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 2003 Xpedion Design Systems, the RFIC RFIC Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit RFIC Radio Frequency Interface Chip simulation company, today announced that Advanced Circuit Concepts (ACCO ACCO American College of Chiropractic Orthopedists ACCO Association of County Commissioners of Oklahoma ACCo American Cyanamid Company ACCO Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Organization ACCO American Clip Company ACCO Assistant Central Control Officer ), provider of design services to radio frequency (RF) integrated circuit (IC) manufacturers for the global broadband communications and wireless connectivity markets, has chosen to use Xpedion's GoldenGate RF circuit simulation tools for analysis of its most difficult designs. GoldenGate allows ACCO designers to utilize Harmonic Balance (HB) techniques to analyze and optimize high frequency amplifiers, mixers and oscillators. A key factor in ACCO's decision was GoldenGate's capability to simulate designs developed in the Cadence Analog Design Environment (ADE) without migration to or from any other format. GoldenGate v3.2 can read Spectre foundry libraries and models in their native format. "Today's wireless devices need Adjacent Channel Power Ratio (ACPR ACPR Adjacent Channel Power Ratio ACPR Ariel Center for Policy Research (Israel) ACPR Adjacent-Channel Power Rejection ACPR Adjacent Channel Protection Ratio ACPR American Crossbred Pony Registry ACPR Advanced Core Performance Reactor ) and Third Order Intercept Point (IP3) analyses completed rapidly and prior to tapeout. GoldenGate completed these types of transistor level analyses on our entire receiver chain configuration in just minutes -- the fastest simulation tool I've seen to date," said Dr. Vincent Geffroy, ACCO RFIC design expert. "At first I found the performance and capacity claims Xpedion was making hard to believe; but then I saw the tool plow through one of my most complex receiver chains, including a 300 transistor LNA - Down Conversion Mixer. The tool converged and returned accurate results, when other simulators couldn't even finish their HB setup prerequisites." About ACCO SA ACCO is an Analog, RF and MMW design services company with a strong background in radio circuits and power managements IP in technologies from pure digital CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. to InP technologies. ACCO is also providing Loadpull and Source pull system engineering as well as device modeling and characterization for cellular and wireless IC manufacturers. ACCO is located in Europe (Saint Germain en Laye, France and Pavia, Italy) and in the USA (Littleton, Mass.) About Xpedion Since 1998, Xpedion has focused on delivering a new breed of EDA solutions for use in designing wireless and high-speed digital circuits and systems. The company's tools enable design teams to rapidly develop products for the evolving IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.11 Wireless LAN and Cellular communication standards as well as high-speed digital circuits (e.g. OC 768) and Phase Locked Loops. Xpedion is a member of the Cadence (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. ) Connections Program, the Sequence In-Sequence(TM) Program, the Synopsys (Nasdaq:SNPS SNPS Space Nuclear Power System ) in-Sync(TM) Program, the Mathworks and Platform LSF LSF Lisofylline, see there Partners Programs, and is both a Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) and a Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW) development partner. Xpedion Design Systems, Inc. is located at 1900 McCarthy Blvd, STE210, Milpitas, California, USA, 95035, telephone: (408) 449-4000, FAX: (408) 449-4030, info@xpedion.com, www.xpedion.com. |
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