National support for simulator

A Nassda Corp product story

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Dec 9, 2002

National Semiconductor has adopted Nassda's HSIM hierarchical full-chip simulator and analysis tool for the design and verification of complex ICs.

National Semiconductor has adopted Nassda's HSIM hierarchical full-chip simulator and analysis tool for the design and verification of complex ICs.

National Semiconductor is a worldwide leader for the design and manufacture of analogue and mixed-signal ICs.

Under a multi-year agreement, National has acquired HSIM and is deploying these licenses worldwide in design centres on three continents.

Nassda's HSIM has become the standard high-speed, high-capacity circuit simulator for National.

"We have had good experience with Nassda as a software supplier", said James Lin, Vice-President of Technology Infrastructure Group at National.

"Nassda's verification technology is making a significant impact on our ability to deliver better designs to our customers in shorter time.

With Nassda's powerful software, technology innovation, and strong support of National, they have made a major contribution to our success.

We look forward to our continuing partnership with Nassda to maintain and extend our leadership".

Alvin Ling, Director of Central CAD and Licence Management said: "Nassda's HSIM demonstrated its ability to deliver a breakthrough in speed, accuracy and capacity on our complex designs.

Being able to perform extensive simulation and analysis before tapeout allows us to produce better parts more quickly for this demanding marketplace.

Nassda's support of our efforts has been world class and has made our job easier".

"National, a world leader in analogue and mixed-signal electronics, requires efficient and accurate simulation technology to maintain its market dominating position", said Sang Wang, CEO of Nassda.

"We have worked closely with National to ensure that as part of their design flow HSIM provided the integration, speed and accuracy necessary for their leading edge designs.

We're extremely pleased that National chose HSIM as its high-speed high-capacity circuit simulator and their confidence in Nassda".