Berkeley Design Automation

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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 include Analog FastSPICE™ circuit simulator, RF FastSPICE™ periodic analyzer, and PLL Noise 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.

[edit] See also

• Electronic design automation
• Integrated circuit design

[edit] 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'

[edit] External links

• Berkeley Design Automation homepage