Date: 04/11/2010

Berkeley AFS Platform adopted by Icsense

Berkeley Design Automation, Inc has announced that ICsense, has selected the Berkeley's AFS Platform for full-circuit verification, block-level characterization, and device noise analysis of their high-performance analog, mixed-signal, and high-voltage designs.

"At ICsense we design customer-specific ICs for power management, sensor-MEMS-actuator interfaces, and high-voltage circuits across many different technologies and foundries," said Dr. Yves Geerts, COO at ICsense. "We adopted the AFS Platform because it has all the required features, accuracy, performance, and reliability across wide variety of products and process technologies. AFS delivered results 2x-5x faster than our existing parallel simulator while maintaining nanometer SPICE accuracy on complex analog blocks including ADCs, DACs, and DC-DC converters."

Berkeley says the AFS Platform delivers foundry-certified nanometer SPICE accuracy 5x-10x faster than any other simulator on a single core and an additional 2x-4x performance with multithreading and for circuit characterization, the AFS Platform includes the industry's only comprehensive silicon-accurate device noise analysis and delivers near-linear performance scaling with the number of cores. For large circuits, it delivers >10M-element capacity, the industry's fastest near-SPICE-accurate simulation, and co-simulation with leading Verilog simulators, as per Berkeley. Available licenses include AFS circuit simulation, AFS Transient Noise Analysis, AFS RF Analysis, AFS Co-Simulation, and AFS Nano SPICE.

"We are delighted that ICsense, one of Europe's leading IC design houses, has adopted the AFS Platform," said Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley Design Automation. "Designing mixed-signal ASICs for medical, automotive, consumer, and industrial applications is a tremendous challenge. ICsense's selection validates, once again, that Berkeley Design Automation is an essential partner to leading edge companies designing high-performance nanometer analog and mixed-signal circuits."