Berkeley Design Automation's Analog FastSPICE and RF FastSPICE Win EDN Magazine's 2006 Innovation Award.Award Recognizes Breakthrough Value of Company's Full SPICE Accuracy and 5X-10X Performance to Electronics Industry SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Berkeley Design Automation Inc., provider of Precision Circuit Analysis[TM] technology for advanced analog and RF integrated circuits, today announced that its Analog FastSPICE and RF FastSPICE tools have won the 17th annual EDN "Innovation of the Year" Award. They are the first analog and RF EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. tools to be honored with this exclusive award in five years. The award is based on the tools' full-SPICE accuracy, 5X to 10X performance versus SPICE, and vastly superior DC and periodic-steady-state (PSS See EPSS. ) convergence. Enabling Critical Verification Tasks Today's analog and RF design teams can no longer perform many critical verification tasks with traditional SPICE or digital fastSPICE tools due to insufficient accuracy, performance, and capacity. Examples include: top-level DC connectivity checks, top-level performance simulations, verification with realistic package inductance and transmission line effects, extensive corner case and Monte Carlo analysis, post-layout simulation of critical sub-circuits such as PLLs and Sigma-Delta ADCs, and periodic analysis of multi-block RF circuits. Analog FastSPICE and RF FastSPICE enable design teams to perform such tasks, thereby substantially reducing design time, design risk, and overdesign. "We are proud to be chosen as a winner of the EDN Innovation Award," said Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Berkeley Design Automation. "Being selected for this award by the design community further validates the value Analog FastSPICE and RF FastSPICE are bringing to analog and RF design teams worldwide." About The EDN Innovation Awards Award winners were selected among the finalists by EDN's worldwide audience of electronics engineers and engineering managers. EDN's editorial staff and Editorial Advisory Board also take part in determining the final winners. Instituted in 1990, the Innovation Awards honor the people, products and technologies that have shaped the semiconductor industry over the past year. Nominees for the Innovator of the Year category must have demonstrated innovation that resulted in a significant advance in technology and/or product development during the past 12 months. About Berkeley Design Automation Berkeley Design Automation Inc. is the recognized leader in advanced analog/RF verification. Its Precision Circuit Analysis technology combines the accuracy, performance, and robustness needed to verify GHz designs in nanometer-scale silicon. Berkeley Design Automation is the recipient of EDN Magazine's 2006 Innovation Award and the 2006 Red Herring 100 North America Award, making it the first analog and RF EDA company to be honored with either exclusive award in five years. Founded in 2003, the company is funded by Woodside Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners Bessemer Venture Partners is a private venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Massachusetts, China, and India. It has backed such companies as Ciena, Flarion, Parametric Technologies, Skype, Staples, VeriSign and Veritas. , Matsushita Electric Industrial, and NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform Corporation. For more information, see http://www.berkeley-da.com. Analog FastSPICE, RF FastSPICE, PLL Noise Analyzer, and Precision Circuit Analysis are trademarks and Berkeley Design is a registered trademark of Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. HSPICE is a registered trademark of Synopsys Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :SNPS SNPS Space Nuclear Power System ). Spectre is a registered trademark of Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. Inc. (NASDAQ:CDNS CDNS Cadence Design Systems, Inc (stock symbol) CDNS Climatological Data National Summary CDNS Command Data Network System CDNS Customer and Data Network Services (Sprint) ). |
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