( ESNUG 459 Item 8 ) -------------------------------------------- [12/14/06]
Subject: Cooley rightfully chastised for not looking at ClioSoft at DAC
> Working behind the scenes, here's what Pallab Chatterjee, Cliff Cummings,
> Howard Landman, Stu Sutherland, and I (plus a dozen other EDA users who
> wished to remain anon) thought were the best frontend and backend tools
> at the recent DAC 06:
>
> 1.) Cadence Precision Router (CPR)
> 2.) Mentor Calibre nmDRC
> 3.) Synopsys PrimeYield
> 4.) Magma Talus
> 5.) Sierra Olympus
> 6.) Extreme XT Suite vs. PrimeTime-VX
> 7.) Nangate Library Characterizer
> 8.) IC Manage Project Manager
> 9.) Axiom MPsim
> 10.) Bluespec BSV
> 11.) CoWare Virtual Platform Designer (VPD)
> 12.) Veritools Verifyer
>
> Enclosed in the link below are our meaty, detailed technical interviews
> we did live on the DAC floor on each of these tools:
>
> http://www.deepchip.com/demos/best_of_dac06.fhtml
>
> To do a project like this at DAC chowed 2 days that we all could have
> spent otherwise at the conference.
From: Srinath Anantharaman <srinath=user domain=cliosoft spot mom>
Hi John,
I'm glad you finally see design data management as an important piece of the
EDA problem! However, you clearly screwed up by selecting to showcase a
company, IC Manage, with little track record in this business. In addition,
I spoke with all of my staff and they all said that you had never come by
our booth at DAC. How is that fair? You didn't even give us a chance.
ClioSoft has been in the design data management business for almost 10 years
now. We have over 50 customers with hundreds of tapeouts with design teams
spread across the world.
Our DM platform not only supports a generic RTL flow; it's also seamlessly
integrated with several popular brand-name design flows allowing users to
work at the abstration level of design units:
- Cadence Virtuoso
- Mentor ICstudio
- Silicon Canvas Laker
- Mentor HDL Designer
- Summit Visual Elite
We have built our own design data collaboration platform rather than use a
3rd party SCM (software configration management) system such as Perforce.
Although Perforce is a very good SCM system, it is optimized for general
software development, not hardware design.
Having our own DM platform gives us complete control of the technology and
provides significant advantages:
- We are the single source for all technical support. There is no finger
pointing to any 3rd party SCM provider when something goes wrong. We
own all our source code. You cannot afford downtime for your DM system.
- We can build custom features that our users want and address the unique
requirements of hardware desigers. Here are a couple of examples:
+ Workareas with symbolic links to a smart cache. Design libraries
tend to have many large binary files. Why duplicate all this design
data in each users workspace? Workareas with symlinks to cache
optimize diskspace by automatically sharing revisions of objects
that are common yet allowing users the flexibilty to choose any
revision.
+ Composite design objects that manage multiple files created by a
schematic or layout as a single object and not as separate unrelated
files. This ensures data integrity of the object and is a single
object in the DM system. Furthermore it reduces the number of objects
to be managed by 3x to 4x.
John, we're the best choice for design data management because our platform
is built for hardware designers. We're integrated into more design flows
and even if you use multiple flows or change your IC design flow, you're
still covered. Next year, before you make yet another video declaring who
has the best DDM system, at least please give us the common courtesy of
looking at our tools before deciding on a "winner".
- Srinath Anantharaman
ClioSoft Fremont, CA
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