ClioSoft at Arasan

ClioSoft at Arasan
by Paul McLellan on 01-01-2014 at 8:00 am

Arasan recently adopted ClioSoft for data management (DM) for design and development of Arasan’s Silicon IP products. This morning I talked to Erik Peterson, Senior CAD and Verification Engineer AMS Design about their experiences bringing up ClioSoft.

Data management infrastructure is critical with engineering projects… Read More


Data Management in Russia

Data Management in Russia
by Paul McLellan on 11-07-2013 at 5:06 pm

Milandr is a company based in Moscow that makes high reliability semiconductor components for the aerospace, automotive and consumer markets, primarily in Russia. They work with multiple foundries, including X-FAB and TSMC in technologies from 1um down to 65nm. Corporate headquarter and main IC design house is located in Russian… Read More


Dassault Patent on Hierarchy Management

Dassault Patent on Hierarchy Management
by Paul McLellan on 11-05-2013 at 5:05 pm

Dassault have recently been granted a patent on their approach to managing design hierarchy. I asked them how long it took from filing the patent until it was granted and they said the whole process had taken 8 years. It is a bit of an indictment of the patent system when it takes 8 years, also known as 4 or 5 process nodes, for a patent to… Read More


Managing Multi-site Design with Cliosoft at LBNL

Managing Multi-site Design with Cliosoft at LBNL
by Paul McLellan on 10-08-2013 at 11:40 pm

With the award of the Nobel prize for physics to Higgs (who used to work in the same building at Edinburgh as I did, reflected glory) and Englert yesterday, CERN has been in the news. ClioSoft has an interesting presentation given at CERN about designing a detector chips. The work was done two or three years ago, managed from Lawrence… Read More


ClioSoft at GenApSys

ClioSoft at GenApSys
by Paul McLellan on 08-06-2013 at 12:51 pm

GenApSys is a biotech company developing proprietary DNA sequencing technology. As part of that they develop their own custom sequencing chips. These have an analog component and like many people they use the Cadence Virtuoso analog design environment for this.

I talked to Hamid Rategh who is GenApSys’s VP engineering.… Read More


VIA Adopts Cliosoft

VIA Adopts Cliosoft
by Paul McLellan on 07-16-2013 at 4:27 pm

VIA Telecom, who makes CDMA base-band processor chips, picked ClioSoft SOS for use by its analog mixed-signal design teams. Like many such teams they use Cadence’s Virtuoso layout platform. ClioSoft’s SOS is seamlessly integrated into Virtuoso so that designers don’t really need to spend much time worrying… Read More


Data Management for Designers

Data Management for Designers
by Paul McLellan on 03-21-2013 at 8:05 pm

Back when I was a programmer at VLSI Technology in the mid-1980s, I was responsible for all the data management in the VLSI Design Tools. By responsible for, I mean that I designed the whole system and wrote all the code. Prior to the 5th release of our product, there was no data management, designers simply used filenames and it was … Read More


Modern Data Management

Modern Data Management
by Paul McLellan on 03-01-2013 at 12:17 pm

Most mixed-signal design teams don’t use data management. Well, that’s not entirely true, everyone has to do data management of some sort, it is just that it is often very ad hoc, often done by some vaguely systematic way of doing file naming, using email to keep track of changes, no access control and so on. This leads… Read More