Advanced analog/RF verification tools supplier Berkeley Design Automation Inc. said that its Analog FastSPICE circuit simulator has delivered an industry first full-circuit PLL synthesizer performance simulation with true SPICE accuracy. The application is a wideband RFCMOS satellite TV tuner under development at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center at the University of California Berkeley.

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"We are doing pioneering work in the integration of the complete RF front-end of a wideband satellite TV receiver (LNA, mixer, frequency synthesizer) in CMOS technology. This integrated RFCMOS approach will dramatically reduce the costs for such receivers while enabling multi-standard, multi-network operation," said Ali Niknejad, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, and co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center. "With Analog FastSPICE, we were able to verify the complete 10 GHz full-circuit PLL synthesizer for this wideband satellite TV tuner at the transistor-level with true SPICE accuracy which was impossible with any other simulator."

"We are very pleased with our cooperation with the Berkeley Wireless Research Center," said Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO of Berkeley Design Automation. "The center's on-going research on highly-integrated wideband RFCMOS solutions with the lowest possible energy consumption and advanced circuit architecture innovations pushes verification tools to the limit. We are very proud that our Precision Circuit Analysis technology is an essential component of their success in developing breakthrough RFCMOS architectures for next-generation wireless systems."

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