April 24, 2012 -- Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. today announced that ACCO Semiconductor has selected the company's Analog FastSpice (AFS) Platform for block-level characterization and full-circuit verification of its CMOS RF designs.

"ACCO is developing groundbreaking wireless solutions and our CMOS RF circuits have significant verification challenges," said Denis Masliah, CTO at ACCO Semiconductor. "We selected the AFS Platform because it delivers nanometer Spice accuracy over 8 times faster than parallel Spice with the same number of cores on complex RF circuits, including a RF PA with a power control loop."

According to Berkeley, the Analog FastSpice Platform is the fastest nanometer circuit-verification platform for analog, RF, mixed-signal, and custom digital circuits. The AFS Platform delivers foundry-certified nanometer Spice accuracy 5X to 10X faster than any other simulator on a single core and an additional 2X to 4X performance with multi-threading. For circuit characterization, the AFS Platform includes 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, fast near-Spice-accurate simulation, and mixed- analog-digital co-simulation with leading Verilog simulators. Available licenses include AFS circuit simulation, AFS Transient Noise Analysis, AFS RF Analysis, AFS Co-Simulation, and AFS Nano Spice.