Newport Media Adopts Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE(TM) for Mobile TV ICs.Full SPICE Accuracy and 5X-10X Performance Improvement Solve Startup's Most Difficult Verification Problems SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Berkeley Design Automation, Inc., provider of Precision Circuit Analysis[TM] technology for advanced analog and RF integrated circuits, today announced that Newport Media, an innovative fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. supplying products to the mobile broadcast media market, has adopted the company's Analog FastSPICE[TM] circuit simulator. Analog FastSPICE enables Newport Media's designers to verify their multi-standard mobile TV designs in a fraction of the time required by traditional SPICE tools. "Our single chip, multi-band, multi-standard ICs for mobile digital TV applications have extreme verification needs," said Frank Carr, vice president, RF engineering for Newport Media. "We've tried a number of simulators, and Analog FastSPICE is the only circuit simulator that can run our full-circuit and complex blocks simulations with full SPICE accuracy. It also cuts long runtimes on our critical blocks by more than 5X - again with full SPICE accuracy." Analog FastSPICE uses Berkeley Design Automation's proprietary Precision Circuit Analysis[TM] technology to deliver full SPICE accuracy, 5X to 10X faster, and with vastly superior DC convergence compared to traditional SPICE tools. By solving the original device equations without any approximations, abstractions, or short cuts, Analog FastSPICE delivers waveforms identical to traditional SPICE simulators at every node on every run. The product is proven on a wide range of circuits including high-speed I/Os, power regulators, LCD-TV source drivers, memory interfaces, and PLLs (phase-locked loops) and DLLs (delay-locked loops). "We are extremely pleased that Newport Media has chosen Analog FastSPICE for the verification of their highly integrated RF tuner and demodulator See demodulate. Demodulator A device used to recover the original modulating signal from a modulated wave. A demodulator is also known as a detector. solutions," 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. "Achieving the superior performance and power-consumption goals for multi-standard mobile digital TV applications is a tremendous challenge. Newport Media's selection of Analog FastSPICE is strong validation of our technology and the competitive advantage it provides to teams developing complex semiconductor solutions for the consumer electronics market." About Berkeley Design Automation Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. is the recognized leader in advanced analog/RF verification. Its Precision Circuit Analysis[TM] 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 (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. 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. 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