May 22, 2012 -- Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. today announced that Etron Technology, Inc. has selected the company's Analog FastSpice (AFS) Platform for characterization and verification of its memory designs for low-power and consumer applications.

"Etron memory applications require circuit verification with the highest possible accuracy to ensure high quality die," said Bor-Doou Rong, Vice President at Etron. "We selected the Analog FastSpice Platform because it delivers nanometer Spice accuracy 5 to 10 times faster than traditional Spice and helps us meet the quality and yield goals for our known-good-die (KGD) and packaged buffer memory designs."

The Analog FastSpice Platform is a fast 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 other simulator on a single core and an additional 2X to 4X performance with multithreading. 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.