Forza Selects Berkeley DA FastSpice

EON: Berkeley Design Automation announced that Forza Silicon, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in high-resolution, high-speed CMOS image sensors, has selected the company’s Analog FastSPICE Platform for full-circuit verification and block-level characterization.

"The CMOS image sensors we design have tremendous verification challenges," said Daniel Van Blerkom, Ph.D., CTO at Forza Silicon. "We selected AFS because it can handle verification of our CMOS image sensor ICs with nanometer SPICE accuracy on circuit complexities which were impossible in our current verification flow. At the block-level, AFS delivered identical results to traditional SPICE 20x faster in post-layout characterization."