Tanner EDA Announces Tanner Analog FastSPICE

Analog, mixed-signal, and RF designers have increasing requirements for circuit simulation performance and capacity with nanometer SPICE accuracy. The Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE (AFS) Platform is the world’s fastest nanometer circuit verification platform for analog, RF, mixed-signal, and custom digital circuits. With Tanner Analog FastSPICE, Tanner EDA customers have access to foundry-certified nanometer SPICE accuracy 5x-10x faster than any other simulator on a single core and an additional 2x-4x performance uptick with multithreading. Tanner EDA users will be able to verify the most challenging analog/ RF circuits even as they have access to the latest foundry nanometer CMOS technology. For circuit characterization, the T-AFS Platform includes the industry’s only comprehensive silicon-accurate device noise analysis and delivers near-linear performance scaling with the number of cores.

The availability of Analog FastSPICE as an add-on to Tanner EDA's analog and mixed-signal design tools brings great benefit to Tanner EDA’s customers, said Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley Design Automation. Analog/ RF designers can realize the benefits of Tanner EDA's full-flow analog design suite that is now bolstered by Analog FastSPICE, allowing verification of very complex analog/ RF circuits with nanometer SPICE-accurate results.

“Tanner EDA is dedicated to providing our analog, custom, and mixed-signal design customers with the best possible price for performance and productivity,” said Greg Lebsack, Tanner EDA’s president. “Offering Analog FastSPICE as a complement to our T-SPICE simulator enables our customers to tackle complex analog/ RF circuit verification and delivers on our continued commitment to offer the widest possible choice of leading-edge technology.”

Availability and Pricing
The T-AFS add-ons can be purchased and added to existing HiPer tools. Each T-AFS token license will enable 50K element capacity, with users having the option to linearly scale tokens for larger designs. Multi-core is also supported and is scaled linearly (add one T-AFS token for every core). List pricing for token licenses: $30K per token/ year, 5 packs of tokens are $100K/ year, and 10 packs of tokens are $150K/ year. Transient noise tokens also can be added to any T-AFS package at a cost of $25K / token/ year.

Tanner EDA will be demonstrating the integrated flow in Booth # 1126 at DAC 2012 in the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, from June 4th to 6th.