Future Waves Selects Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE(TM) for Full-Circuit...

Future Waves Selects Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE(TM) for Full-Circuit RF-CMOS Tuner IC Verification

Tool Delivers True SPICE Accuracy 5x-10x Faster for Mobile Digital
Broadcasting Tuner ICs
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)--Berkeley Design Automation Inc., provider of Precision Circuit
Analysis(TM) technology for advanced analog and RF integrated circuits
(ICs), today announced that Future Waves, a cutting-edge fabless
manufacturer of RF and mixed-signal ICs for next generation digital
communication and broadcast technologies, has selected the company's
Analog FastSPICE(TM) circuit simulator for full-circuit performance
simulation and complex-block characterization of its mobile digital
broadcasting circuits.

"Verifying our high-performance RF tuner for mobile digital
broadcasting requires transistor-level simulation at the full-circuit
level with true SPICE accuracy," said Dr. Mark Dawkins, RF Systems
Director at Future Waves. "Analog FastSPICE reduced characterization
times for our complex-blocks such as frac-N PLLs and RF AGCs by 5x-10x
with identical results to our traditional SPICE simulator. Analog
FastSPICE also delivered full-circuit performance simulations of our
entire digital RF tuner front-end with true SPICE accuracy, which was
impossible with any other simulator in any reasonable timescale."

Berkeley Design Automation tools include Analog FastSPICE(TM)
circuit simulation, RF FastSPICE(TM) periodic analyzer, and PLL Noise
Analyzer(TM). The company guarantees identical waveforms to the
leading "golden" SPICE simulators down to noise floor (typically 0.1%
or less) while delivering 5x-10x higher performance and 5x-10x higher
capacity. It achieves this by using advanced algorithms and numerical
analysis techniques to rapidly solve the full-circuit matrix and the
original device equations without any shortcuts that could compromise
accuracy.

Design teams from top-10 semiconductor companies to leading
startups use Berkeley Design Automation tools to solve big analog/RF
verification problems. Typical applications include characterizing
complex blocks (e.g., PLLs, ADCs, DC:DC converters, PHYs, Tx/Rx
chains) and running performance simulation of full circuits (e.g.,
wireless transceivers, wireline transceivers, high-speed I/O macros,
memories, microcontrollers, data converters, and power converters).

"We are delighted that Future Waves has chosen Analog FastSPICE
for the verification of their RF-CMOS tuner solutions for mobile
digital broadcasting," said Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of
Berkeley Design Automation. "Future Wave's selection of Analog
FastSPICE is strong validation of our technology and the competitive
advantage it provides to teams developing leading-edge semiconductor
solutions for the consumer electronics market."

About Berkeley Design Automation

Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. is the recognized leader in
advanced analog/RF verification. Its Precision Circuit Analysis
technology combines the accuracy, performance, and capacity needed to
verify GHz designs in nanometer-scale silicon. Berkeley Design
Automation has received numerous awards including EDN Magazine's 2006
Innovation of the Year, the 2006 Red Herring 100 North America, and
the 2007 Red Herring Global 100 Finalist. Founded in 2003, the company
is funded by Woodside Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, Matsushita
Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., and NTT Corporation. For more
information, see http://www.berkeley-da.com.

About Future Waves

Future Waves is a cutting-edge designer of RF and mixed-signal
semiconductor components for next generation digital communication and
broadcast technologies. With a main base of operations in Taiwan,
Future Waves carries out RF/analogue design and R&D in the UK and
holds offices in China and Korea to provide sales and customer support
to our partners and customers in these regions. Future Waves targets
RF CMOS digital tuners for portable applications and provides the most
flexible RF solution in addition to industry leading performance
regarding power consumption, cost effectiveness and ease of use.
Additional information about Future Waves is available at
www.f-waves.com.

Analog FastSPICE, RF FastSPICE, PLL Noise Analyzer, WaveCrave, and
Precision Circuit Analysis are trademarks and Berkeley Design is a
registered trademark of Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. Any other
trademarks or trade names mentioned are the property of their
respective owners.

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