VeloceRF sped up by EDXACT technology
VRFJ™ achieves inductor model netlist reduction by 80% and slashes RFIC non-linear
simulation times by 90%
ATHENS, Greece - GRENOBLE, France, November 16, 2005 – Helic S.A. and EdXact S.A. leading European EDA companies in modeling and verification, announce today a joint development that will result in an extension of Helic's VeloceRF™ inductance modeling, verification and synthesis tool. The new offering, called VRFJ™, , will be based on EdXact's Jivaro™ netlist reduction technology.
Marketed as an option to Helic’s VeloceRF, VRFJ is based on EdXact’s Jivaro technology which comprises the most advanced netlist-reduction technology available today. RFIC designers will use VRFJ to reduce by as much as 80% the element count of inductor-heavy model netlists extracted by VeloceRF. Simulation results of “VRFJ-compressed” model netlists that are extracted at the post-layout phase of the design cycle will exhibit negligible discrepancy compared to the original “uncompressed” ones even for the most demanding non-linear analyses.
“We are about to offer to our customers superior technology that will expedite even more theRFIC design cycle. VeloceRF has been renowned for the extraction speed and accuracy of its models. Combined with VRFJ, simulation time is slashed by more than 90% even in the most demanding analyses”, stated Dr. Yorgos Koutsoyannopoulos, Helic's CEO.
“We are delighted to work with Helic,” said Mathias Silvant, EdXact President. “It's a great team with outstanding technology and an interesting customer base. Our collaboration will help our technology to proliferate, as the combination of our tools provides the fast, efficient and accurate RFIC design flow that customers are looking for.”
VRFJ will be available by Helic to customers worldwide in December 2005. For a demonstration of the new tool and for an evaluation license please contact:
sales@helic.com.
