Vitesse Adopts Physware’s PhysWAVE for 3D Full-Wave Electromagnetic Chip-Package Design

Patented Physics-Aware Technology Tightly Couples Analysis and Design Methods to the Underlying Maxwell’s and Circuit Equations Enabling Estimation and Optimization of Electromagnetic Effects At Chip and Package Levels

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Physware, Inc., a provider of high-speed and high-capacity 3D field solutions for chip-package-board systems, today announced that Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation has adopted Physware’s PhysWAVE electromagnetic (EM) simulator for its electromagnetic design at the chip- and package-levels.

“Vitesse’s adoption of PhysWAVE is validation that our innovation and the value we provide our customers in addressing their signal integrity, power integrity, and electromagnetic interference needs is second to none.”

“PhysWAVE’s dramatic speed up and low memory usage without any loss in Maxwell solution accuracy enables our designers to rapidly estimate, correct and optimize for electromagnetic effects,” said Michael Schulz, director of design, at Vitesse. “PhysWAVE’s impressive high-capacity allows us to also analyze detailed analog on-chip components and complete packages.”

“Physware’s technology is based on several proprietary innovations and multiple years of research that allows us to provide highly accurate 3D EM solutions that are significantly faster and with larger capacity compared to what is commercially available today,” said Dr. Feng Ling, vp of engineering of Physware. “Vitesse’s adoption of PhysWAVE is validation that our innovation and the value we provide our customers in addressing their signal integrity, power integrity, and electromagnetic interference needs is second to none.”

“It is important that our customers are able to design with confidence and successfully address field coupling and parasitic issues regardless of the applications being on-chip, in package, are through the entire system,” said Bala Vishwanath, president & coo of Physware. “It is with keeping this in mind that we have designed PhysWAVE from the ground-up to provide the best-in-class speed and capacity while preserving true Maxwell-accuracy, while also being in complete sync with the emerging multicore shared-memory computing landscape.”

PhysWAVE supports industry-standard input and output formats and features automated port setup, automated transparent mesh generation and automated boundary conditions. Based on innovative integral equation methods that employ finely tuned order-N fast hierarchical algorithms and advanced pre-conditioning methods, PhysWAVE is scalable to meet the needs of any level of complexity in analysis. PhysWAVE’s multi-threaded architecture accommodates hybrid distributed-shared memory computing systems, providing significant speed up through multiple cores and/or CPUs.

PhysWAVE is currently in production and is generally available at prices starting at $40,000 USD. PhysWAVE supports Windows and Linux OS. For additional information and a demo of the product, visit Physware at www.physware.com.

About Physware

Physware, Inc. provides high-speed and high-capacity 3D electromagnetic field solutions for the microelectronics industry. The company’s patent-pending, physics-aware technology tightly couples analysis and design methods to the underlying Maxwell’s and circuit equations, enabling robustness and efficiency at every step of the design cycle across the entire chip-package-board system and significantly reduces time to market. Physware’s accelerated technology delivers unprecedented capacity handling, significantly faster speed than current methodologies, and the ability to span the entire design cycle while maintaining concurrent, uncompromising Maxwell accuracy.

Physware is a venture-backed, privately-held company led by an experienced management team. The technology is based on multiple patent-pending methodologies, over one hundred publications and several Ph.D. theses. For additional information, please visit www.physware.com.

About Vitesse

Vitesse designs, develops and markets a diverse portfolio of high-performance, cost-competitive semiconductor solutions for Carrier and Enterprise networks worldwide. Engineering excellence and dedicated customer service distinguish Vitesse as an industry leader in Gigabit Ethernet LAN, Ethernet-over-SONET, Fibre Channel, Serial Attached SCSI, Optical Transport, and other applications. Vitesse innovation empowers customers to deliver superior products for Enterprise, Access, Metro, and Core applications. Additional company and product information is available at www.vitesse.com.