Overview

Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. is an electronic design automation

Electronic design automation

Electronic design automation is a category of software tools for designing electronic systems such as printed circuit boards and integrated circuits...

 (EDA) software company, headquartered in Santa Clara, California

Santa Clara, California

Santa Clara , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city is the site of the eighth of 21 California missions, Mission Santa Clara de Asís, and was named after the mission. The Mission and Mission Gardens are located on the...

. The company develops software for advanced analog/RF integrated circuit

Integrated circuit

An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit is an electronic circuit manufactured by the patterned diffusion of trace elements into the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material...

 verification. Founded in 2003, the company is funded by Woodside Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., and NTT Corporation.

Products

The Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE (AFS) unified verification platform includes the AFS circuit simulator, the AFS Nano SPICE simulator, AFS Co-Simulation, AFS Transient Noise Analysis, AFS RF Analysis, and the WaveCrave waveform processor. Typical applications include characterizing complex blocks such as PLLs, analog-to-digital converter

Analog-to-digital converter

An analog-to-digital converter is a device that converts a continuous quantity to a discrete time digital representation. An ADC may also provide an isolated measurement...

s, and transmit/receive chains and running performance simulation of full circuits such as wireless

Wireless

Wireless telecommunications is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not physically connected. Distances can be short, such as a few meters for television remote control, or as far as thousands or even millions of kilometers for deep-space radio communications...

 transceivers, wireline transceivers, high-speed I/O macros, memories, microcontrollers, data converter

Data converter

A data converter may refer to*a digital-to-analog converter;*an analog-to-digital converter;*any other device used in data conversion....

s, and power converters.