Berkeley Design Automation
Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. is an electronic design automation (EDA) Software company, headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company develops software for advanced analog/RF integrated circuit verification. Founded in 2003, the company is funded by Woodside Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., and NTT Corporation.
Berkeley Design Automation tools are part of the Analog FastSPICE unified verification platform and include the Analog FastSPICE circuit simulator, the AFS Nano SPICE simulator, the Noise Analysis Option device noise analyzer, and the RF FastSPICE multi-tone periodic analyzer. Typical applications include characterizing complex blocks such as PLLs, analog-to-digital converters, and transmit/receive chains and running performance simulation of full circuits such as wireless transceivers, wireline transceivers, high-speed I/O macros, memories, microcontrollers, data converters, and power converters.
See also
- Electronic design automation
- Integrated circuit design
References
- EDN (April 2, 2007):'EDN announces 17th Annual Innovation Awards winners'
- Berkeley Design Automation Named a Red Herring 100 Winner
- Silicon India Magazine Cover Story(July 2007):'Analog Rising'
- EETimes (Jan. 22, 2008):'Video: startup explores analog EDA problems'
- Nikkei Electronics Asia (October 2007):'Makers Use New Analog Circuit Verification Tools'