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San Jose, Calif. — January 7, 2010 — Anasift Technology
Inc., the leader of analog optimization today announced the beta
release of AMPSO-OADFM, the high-performance optimization tool
of analog design for manufacturability.
AMPSO-OADFM, incorporating the engine of Anasift's analog optimization
tool AMPSO, is targeting at the transistor-level optimization
of analog design for manufacturability for all kinds of analog
building circuits including opamps, analog buffers, comparators,
voltage regulators, line drivers/receivers, trans-impedance amplifiers,
and other analog building blocks, or the analog characteristics
of small digital cells.
AMPSO-OADFM is the best of the kind analog optimization tool
that aims to provide analog design optimization with better manufacturability
and yield for delicate, high-performance analog building circuits.
AMPSO-OADFM can optimize a high-performance analog amplifier used
in an 8 bits 205MHz sample per second ADC in less than one day
in one regular Intel CPU yet requiring no SPICE license.
"With AMPSO analog optimization engine embedded inside,
AMPSO-OADFM can optimize analog circuits to maintain high analog
performances, and also take care of all possible characteristic
fluctuations due to the uncertainty or variation of manufacture
process. DFM attracts much attention recently in the industry.
Current DFM topics are mostly focused on the digital ICs only.
However the facts that more than 70% of SOC designs are mixed-signal,
and analog circuits are more sensitive to process variation and
prone to produce defects of mixed-signal IC functions make people
realize that the key problem in DFM of mixed-signal SOC shall
be more in the analog part than in digital. We are thrilled to
release AMPSO-OADFM that provides the best industrial solution
to the optimization of analog design for manufacturability as
well as the optimization of analog circuit performances including
speed, power consumption, die size, linearity, etc." said
Dr. J.J. Hsu, founder and President of Anasift.
AMPSO-OADFM takes a SPICE netlist or AMPSO optimization file
as input. It accepts typical SPICE model files. It can optimize
analog designs to meet design specifications across statistical
variations of manufacture process corners to improve manufacturability
and to insure high yield and accurate silicon implementation.
AMPSO-OADFM is designed to fit into existing Cadence (NYSE:CDN)
Mentor Graphics (NASDAQ: MENT) and Synopsys (NASDAQ: SNPS) analog
design flows.
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's
mission is to develop analog EDA optimization tools that remove
the high performance analog IC design productivity bottleneck
and assure accurate and high yield silicon implementation through
the optimization of analog design for manufacturability.
AMPSO, AMPSO-OADFM, 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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