Cosmic Circuits selects Berkeley Design Automation AFS Nano

SANTA CLARA, USA: Berkeley Design Automation Inc., a provider of the Analog FastSPICE unified circuit verification platform announced that Cosmic Circuits, a leading provider of differentiated high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) for nanometer silicon processes, has selected the company's Analog FastSPICE Nano SPICE simulator (AFS Nano) for IP core verification.

"Cosmic Circuits' designs go through rigorous checks at the simulation level before being committed to silicon," said Ganapathy Subramaniam, CEO of Cosmic Circuits. "AFS Nano reduces simulation time by a factor of 5-10x compared to traditional SPICE with identical results. With this performance we can thoroughly characterize PLLs, ADC blocks, and DACs, for process variability resulting in faster delivery of high quality IP cores to our customers."

Analog FastSPICE is the industry’s only unified circuit verification platform for analog, mixed-signal, and RF design. Always delivering true SPICE accurate results, it provides 5x-20x higher performance than traditional SPICE, >10 million-element capacity, and the industry’s only comprehensive noise analysis.

The AFS Platform is a single executable that uses advanced algorithms and numerical analysis to rapidly solve the full-circuit matrix and original device equations without any shortcuts. AFS Platform tools include: AFS Nano SPICE simulator, Analog FastSPICE circuit simulator, Noise Analysis Option device noise analyzer, and RF FastSPICE multi-tone periodic analyzer.

"We are excited that Cosmic Circuits has selected AFS Nano for their IP verification and characterization," said Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley Design Automation.

"Cosmic Circuits’ silicon IP for nanometer process nodes requires expert analog designers, a strong focus on analog architectures to combat variability, and the right tools for the job. Cosmic Circuits' selection of AFS Nano further validates the strong competitive advantage the Analog FastSPICE Platform provides to leading-edge analog/mixed-signal IP designers."