( ESNUG 429 Item 12 ) -------------------------------------------- [06/03/04]
Subject: ( ESNUG 427 #4 ) The List Of EDA Vendors & Users Using OpenAccess
> It took us 2 months evaluate OA, and about 6 months ago we decided to
> use it as our in-memory database, in the hope that it would save us of
> time in developing and building a correct database.
>
> - Bogdan Arsintescu
> Neolinear/Cadence San Jose, CA
From: Sumit Dasgupta <dasgupta=user domain=si2.org>
Hi, John,
In your ESNUG 427 #4, you asked who the end-users were that were using
OpenAccess-based design tools/systems, and who the EDA vendors were that
were building interfaces to OA. Right now we have:
1) 19 announced OA-based tools or tool suites from 12 EDA vendors
2) 3 different major end-user companies with 4 OA-based tools/flows
3) 24 current members in the OpenAccess Coalition.
I know that you want me to "name names", so here they are...
EDA Vendors with Announced OA-based tools:
- BindKey: RapiDesignClean
- Cadence: Encounter Digital IC platform, Virtuoso, DFM Solutions
- ClioSoft: SOS
- IC Manage: IC Manage
- In2Fab: ISIS, OSIRIS, GLADE
- MEMScAP: MEMS Explorer
- Mentor Graphics: Calibre
- MicroEDA: MicroVerify Suite
- PDF Solutions: pDfx
- Sagantec: SiClone, Companion, Anaconda, SiFix
- Silicon Canvas: Laker
- Synchronicity: DesignSync DFII
End-User Companies with Production OA-enabled Tools:
1. LSI, Bloomington, MN & Milpitas, CA
RapidWorx: OA-based design kit -- contains mix of vendor and internal
tools. In production, 180/130 nm chips designed and taped-out in
RapidWorx shipped to customers.
- RapidBuilder: Automated configuration of memories, I/O's, etc
- RapidView: Graphical viewer and editor
- RapidCheck: Gate-level netlist verification
- OA to/from Milkyway Bridge: Python-based
2. LSI, Milpitas, CA
In production, chip package designs underway
- Packaging Tool: Tool to design the packaging of chips on packages
3. HP, Ft. Collins, CO and Cupertino, CA
In production, 90 nm chip designs underway
- SP&R Flow: Includes in-house tools and tools from multiple vendors
4. Fujitsu, San Jose, CA
In production inside Fujitsu
- Feather: Internally developed layout viewer
OAC Member Companies:
Artisan LogicVision ST Microelectronics
Cadence LSI Logic Sun Microsystems
CiraNova Mentor Graphics Synchronicity
ClioSoft PDF Solutions Synplicity
Freescale Semiconductor Philips Semiconductors Tektronix
Hewlett-Packard Renesas Technology Verisity
IBM Sagantec
IC Manage Silicon Canvas
Intel Silicon Navigator
Negotiations and work is underway with several more, and if you ask again
next year, we expect to report many more names on every list above.
- Sumit Dasgupta
Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) Austin, TX
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