In working with TSMC and GlobalFoundries on AMS design reference flows I have experienced first hand the increasing verification challenges of nanometer analog, RF, and mixed-signal circuits. Tools in this area have to be both silicon accurate and blindingly fast! Berkeley Design Automation is one of the key vendors in this … Read More
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Berkeley Design Automation at DAC
Intro
Simon Young, Product Marketing manager at BDA gave me an update at DAC last week on their circuit simulator, Analog Fast SPICE (AFS).
Notes
Quarterly release: 2011 Q2 now
Speed Improvements: Still 5 to 10X speed improvement over other SPICE tools
Multi-Threading – 2 to 4 X improvement using 4 to 8 cores.
Device Noise – three … Read More