Berkeley Design Automation Inc. has reportedly announced that BitWave Semiconductor Inc. deployed its Analog FastSPICE Platform which includes the Analog FastSPICE circuit simulator (AFS), the AFS Nano SPICE simulator, AFS Co-Simulation, and the Noise Analysis Option device noise analyzer.

Berkeley specializes in advanced analog, mixed-signal and RF verification. The Analog FastSPICE unified circuit verification platform provides high accuracy and capacity required to verify GHz designs in nanometer-scale silicon.

“At BitWave we have been using Analog FastSPICE for full-circuit verification of our programmable CMOS RF transceiver products,” said Geoff Dawe, CTO at BitWave.

“We have now deployed the complete Analog FastSPICE Platform because it significantly increases the efficiency of our design teams. The AFS Platform delivers true SPICE accurate block-level characterization, complex-block, and full-circuit verification, and device noise analysis for our leading-edge Softransceiver platforms,” Dawe said.

 

Analog Fast SPICE is a unified circuit verification platform suitable for analog, mixed-signal and RF design. It delivers true SPICE accurate results and also provides improved performance when compared to traditional SPICE, greater element capacity and a comprehensive noise analysis feature.

Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley Design Automation said that the Analog FastSPICE Platform delivers high-performance, low-power programmable RF transceivers for multi-mode, multi-band wireless devices.

“BitWave’s broad adoption of the AFS Platform reinforces the fact that today’s leading wireless platform suppliers select Berkeley Design Automation as an essential partner to in the design of their analog and RF semiconductor products,” Subramanian said.