Hardware designers use complex EDA tool flows that have collections of underlying binary and text files. Keeping track of the versions of your IC design can be a real issue when your projects use teams of engineers. ClioSoft has been offering HCM (Hardware Configuration Management) tools that work in the most popular flows of: … Read More
Transistor Level IC Design?
If you are doing transistor-level IC design then you’ve probably come up against questions like:
- What Changed in this schematic sheet?
- How did my IC layout change since last week?
In the old days we would hold up the old and new versions of the schematics or IC layout and try to eye-ball what had changed. Now we have an automated… Read More
How Tektronix uses Hardware Configuration Management tools in an IC flow
Last Monday I sat down with Grego Sanguinetti in Beaverton, Oregon at the campus of Tektronix to hear about how they design their ICs using EDA tools from multiple vendors.… Read More
Richard Goering does Q&A with ClioSoft CEO
Richard Goering is well-known from his editorial days at EE Times (going back some 25 years), now at Cadence he blogs at least once a week on EDA topics that touch Cadence tools.
Before DAC he talked with Srinath Anantharaman about how Cadence tools work together with ClioSoft tools to keep IC Design Data Management Simple.
Through… Read More
Hardware Configuration Management at DAC
Intro
Show me what has changed in my RTL or Schematic since the last time I looked. This task is now automated by Cliosoft with their new hierarchical tool called Visual Design Difference (VDD). Srinath showed me what was new for DAC.
Srinath Anantharaman
Notes
LSI, STMicro – use DesignSync for their DM but use VDD for seeing visual… Read More
Cadence Virtuoso 6.1.5 and ClioSoft Hardware Configuration Management – Webinar Review
Introduction
Cadence and ClioSoft made a webinar recently and I’ll summarize what I learned from it.
What’s New from Cadence in Virtuoso 6.1.5
- Back2Basics (28nm rule integration, Skill improved with object-oriented, OASIS support, HTML Publisher, Waveform re-written for better Analog support, smaller Waveform
How Avnera uses Hardware Configuration Management with Virtuoso IC Tools
Introduction
Here in the Silicon Forest (Oregon) we have a venture-backed, fabless analog semi company called Avnera that has designed over 10 Analog System on Chips (ASoC). Their chips are used in consumer products for both wireless audio and video applications.
James Rollins is the director of physical design at Avnera… Read More
Hardware Configuration Management and why it’s different than Software Configuration Management
Intro
On Friday I talked with Srinath Anantharaman by phone to gain some perspective on Hardware Configuration Management (HCM) versus Software Configuration Management (SCM), especially as it applies to the IC design flows in use today. In the 1990’s we both worked at Viewlogic in Fremont, CA and in 1997 Srinath founded… Read More