| San Jose, Calif. — August
11, 2009— Anasift Technology Inc., inventors of high performance
analog optimization software based on advanced symbolic analysis
technology and propritietary optimization algorithms, today announced
that they were able to optimize an Operational Transimpedance
Amplifier (OTA) in only 16 hours on a single CPU Linux system
without any SPICE license. The OTA, supplied by a major analog
design company, consisted of 75 Mosfets, provided the amplification
function in an analog-to-digital data converter with a resolution
of 15 bits and a sample rate of 60 Mega-samples per second. The
process consisted of optimizing 35 parameters for more than 500
design constraints.
“This is a major performance coup,” said J.J. Hsu,
CEO and founder of Anasift. “Manually completing this kind
of task can take more than 2 months. Competing approaches would
most likely not be able to complete the job after requiring several
days, multiple spice licenses, and a simulation farm.”
Anasift’s use of symbolic analysis and other proprietary
algorithms greatly reduces the time and horsepower required for
analog optimization. The software product, AMPSO, runs on a single
CPU Linux or Sun system and requires no SPICE license, thus making
the total cost of purchase and ownership much less than competing
systems.
As time to market pressures increase daily, it is of primary
importance to cut down design cycle times. AMPSO is able to optimize
or process migrate a transistor level netlist of virtually any
kind of linear analog block in a few hours to a few days. This
includes OP Amps, OTAs, voltage regulators, bandgap references,
charge pumps, line drivers/receivers, trans-impedance amplifiers,
etc. AMPSO allows designers to utilize their knowledge to guide
the optimization process by embedding design intent directly through
the software. AMPSO makes both the optimization of new designs
and the migration of existing designs to a new process fast and
easy.
AMPSO can be used to obtain the best performance a given process
has to offer. And unlike competing systems, AMPSO does not require
the user to wade through a laundry list of results hunting for
the best match with the given design specification. Rather, AMPSO
will proceed until it finds an optimization which meets all the
design specifications. “If AMPSO does not produce a result
that meets the specification, it is probably because the process
or the schematic topology isn’t capable of doing it.,”
said Hsu. “However, even when a process can’t meet
desired results,” he added, “AMPSO provides a graphical
post analysis tool so that users can select the best result from
those obtained.”
AMPSO 2 is available for evaluation. Anasift will be exhibiting
at the Design Automation Conference (booth 106) to be held in
San Diego from June 13 - 17, 2005. Product information and DAC
suite demo arrangements are available by emailing Robert Grant
at rgrant@anasift.com.
About Anasift
Anasift Technology, a privately held innovative company located
in Silicon Valley, is developing electronic design automation
(EDA) software for analog integrated circuit (IC) design. Anasift
is privately held, with funding from venture capital, corporate
and private investment sources. Investors include: Cross Pacific
Venture, Ascentech Venture, and individual semiconductor veterans.
Contact
Anasift Technology Inc.: Robert Grant, (408) 944-9920 x 111, rgrant@anasift.com
Symbolic Based Optimization, and
Anasift are trademarks of Anasift Technology Inc.
All other products and trademarks are the property of their respective
holders.
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