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Joining OpenAccess: the R&D balance sheet

Joining OpenAccess: the R&D balance sheet. Ivo van Zandvoort VP Engineering Sagantec Netherlands. Sagantec (booth F85). As a back-end company, our products are used in time-critical parts of the flow and the details make or break the design. Products for physical layouts:

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Joining OpenAccess: the R&D balance sheet

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  1. Joining OpenAccess: the R&D balance sheet Ivo van Zandvoort VP Engineering Sagantec Netherlands

  2. Sagantec (booth F85) As a back-end company, our products are used in time-critical parts of the flow and the details make or break the design Products for physical layouts: • Reuse and migration of proven physical design • Accelerated implementation of new designs Both the design data and the technology data are inputs for our products

  3. Process and Design Data Process Data SiClone Xtreme GDSII LEF/DEF Translator Transistor Sizing data Transistor Sizing data DFII GDSII Hurricane Companion Process Data

  4. Challenges Keep up with technology progress • DSM requires tight integration between different design steps • Layout and design rule descriptions become more and more complex • Improve customer efficiency • Re-use existing information • Tight and flawless integration with other EDA tools • Robust and high quality software • Focus on the important issues • Fast response on customer problems

  5. Open Access R&D benefits • Less interface effort • One database for all EDA tools • Clearly documented API • “Unknown” properties are kept and do not need understanding from Sagantec • Automatic support for new utilities, e.g. NSF/OASIS • Influence on content • Participation in workgroups • Use our specific knowledge to co-define the database • Less maintenance effort • No surprise incompatibilities • Early access to release schedules and latest versions • Easier problem solving • Database can also be accessed • All input in one format • Share tools for analyzing problems

  6. Open Access R&D costs • Incorporation • Learning yet another API • Implementation work • Additional overhead • (Temporarily) supporting an additional database • Work done in the OpenAccess workgroups

  7. Process and Design Data with OA SiClone Xtreme Open Access Database Design data Technology Data Hurricane Companion

  8. Sagantec in OpenAccess Joined October 2002 Training course followed by engineers • Member of TechWG working group • Bring our knowledge about process information to OA • Streamline data with other tools • Integration process is starting • Demo at DAC with semiconductor company

  9. Conclusions R&D benefits • Less effort in many different areas • More time to focus on the real issues • Influence on the contents • Easier problem solving R&D costs • Work in TechWG Customer benefits • Plug and play design flows • All design data is kept between tools • Single tech-file maintenance OpenAccess lets EDA companies & customers focus on their core─technology!!

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