March 27, 2006 -- Anasift Technology, Inc. has announced the beta release of AMPSO-OADFM, the high-performance optimization tool of analog design for manufacturability. Incorporating the engine of Anasift's analog optimization tool AMPSO, AMPSO-OADFM is targeted at transistor-level optimization of analog design for manufacturability for all kinds of analog building blocks including opamps, analog buffers, comparators, voltage regulators, line drivers/receivers, and trans-impedance amplifiers, and the analog characteristics of small digital cells.

According to Anasift, AMPSO-OADFM can optimize a high-performance analog amplifier used in an 8-bit 205-MHz 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," said Dr. J.J. Hsu, Founder and President of Anasift. "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."

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 Design Systems, Inc., Mentor Graphics Corp. and Synopsys, Inc. analog design flows.