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Design automation analogue system selected for full-circuit verification
Berkeley Design Automation, Inc has announced that Luminary Micro has chosen the company's Analog FastSPICE circuit simulator for full-circuit verification as well as to verify complex blocks 5x-10x faster – both with full SPICE accuracy.
Berkeley Design Automation, Inc has announced that Luminary Micro has chosen the company's Analog FastSPICE circuit simulator for full-circuit verification as well as to verify complex blocks 5x-10x faster – both with full SPICE accuracy."We have always wanted to run full-circuit simulation of our microcontroller designs since they contain complex analogue components, but traditional SPICE cannot converge on them and traditional fastSPICE tools produce the wrong results," said Tom Hegedus, vice president of engineering for Luminary Micro. "Analogue FastSPICE finished what was impossible for every other simulator in just 12 hours. It also slashed our PLL simulations from 24 hours to 2.5 hours while producing identical results. With Analogue FastSPICE we can tapeout our chips faster and with significantly more confidence in first pass silicon success.""We are delighted that Luminary Micro has chosen Analogue FastSPICE for their microcontroller verification flow," said Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley Design Automation. "We believe that top-level simulation is a key requirement for nanometre designs and we are proud to enable Luminary Micro to add this capability to their flow, thus improving the effectiveness of their design verification."
