Managing IP, Chiplets, and Design Data

Managing IP, Chiplets, and Design Data
by Daniel Payne on 10-23-2023 at 10:00 am

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Design re-use has enabled IC design teams to create billion-transistor designs where hundreds of IP blocks are pre-built from internal or external sources. Keeping track of where each of these IP blocks came from, what their version status is, managing IP, or even discerning their license status can be a full-time job if tracked… Read More


Cliosoft’s Smart Storage Strategy for Better Workspace Management

Cliosoft’s Smart Storage Strategy for Better Workspace Management
by Kalar Rajendiran on 02-08-2023 at 10:00 am

Links to Cache Architecture

Over the years storage has gotten very cheap, or has it? As a typical consumer, we take data storage for granted because access to it has gotten very cheap. Long gone are the days of being limited to 1.44MB floppy disks to store data. The smart devices we carry around with us can store 100’s of GB of data. That is a lot of data. But what about… Read More


Design to Layout Collaboration Mixed Signal

Design to Layout Collaboration Mixed Signal
by Tom Simon on 04-07-2022 at 10:00 am

Cliosoft integration with Custom Compiler

When talking about today’s sophisticated advanced node designs it’s easy to first think about the digital challenges. Yet, the effort to design the needed analog and mixed signal blocks for them should not be underestimated. The need for high speed clocks, high frequency RF circuits and high bit rate IOs makes the analog portions,… Read More


Cliosoft and Microsoft to Collaborate on the RAMP Program

Cliosoft and Microsoft to Collaborate on the RAMP Program
by Kalar Rajendiran on 01-06-2022 at 6:00 am

Cliosoft RAMP SemiWiki

We have all heard of many advanced technological inventions and products from the defense sector that subsequently got commercialized. While most of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) projects are classified secrets, many military innovations have had great influence in the commercial sector in the fields… Read More


Podcast EP26: The Challenges and Opportunities of IP Reuse

Podcast EP26: The Challenges and Opportunities of IP Reuse
by Daniel Nenni on 06-25-2021 at 10:00 am

Dan and Mike are joined by Simon Rance, head of marketing for Cliosoft. Simon discusses a broad range of topics associated with IP reuse, from the IP provider and IP consumer point of view. Design data management, as well as IP technical capabilities, license tracking and the benefits of a knowledge base and more are reviewed.

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WEBINAR REPLAY: ClioSoft Facilitates Design Reuse with Cadence® Virtuoso®

WEBINAR REPLAY: ClioSoft Facilitates Design Reuse with Cadence® Virtuoso®
by Daniel Nenni on 10-23-2019 at 10:00 am

In September, ClioSoft gave a SemiWiki webinar titled, Reusing Your IPs & PDKs Successfully With Cadence® Virtuoso®. I was happy to be the moderator of this webinar, having had the chance to work with ClioSoft’s team over many years. The webinar was informative while also being very time efficient. I think it is important for… Read More


WEBINAR: Reusing Your IPs & PDKs Successfully With Cadence® Virtuoso®

WEBINAR: Reusing Your IPs & PDKs Successfully With Cadence® Virtuoso®
by Randy Smith on 09-13-2019 at 10:00 am

I recently wrote about a ClioSoft® study with Google on using cloud platforms for EDA design and the importance of using persistent storage when doing that. ClioSoft will again be sharing important information on design productivity in the upcoming webinar, Reusing Your IPs & PDKs Successfully With Cadence® Virtuoso®. … Read More


IP-XACT The Answer for IP Reuse

IP-XACT The Answer for IP Reuse
by Tom Simon on 04-09-2019 at 7:00 am

To a lawyer, the term intellectual property means just about anything intangible that has value. However, when you bring that term up in the context of semiconductor design, it means something pretty specific to most people. Yet the implied meaning of the term intellectual property (IP) within the semiconductor field has changed… Read More


Hierarchy Applied to Semiconductor IP Reuse

Hierarchy Applied to Semiconductor IP Reuse
by Daniel Payne on 11-30-2017 at 12:00 pm

When I first started doing IC design back in 1978 we had hierarchical designs, and that was doing a relatively simple 16Kb DRAM chip with only 32,000 transistors using 6um (aka 6,000 nm) design rules. SoC designs today make massive use of hierarchy at all levels of IC design: IC Layout, transistor netlist, gate level netlist, RTL … Read More


Scaling Enterprise Potential with ClioSoft’s designHUB platform

Scaling Enterprise Potential with ClioSoft’s designHUB platform
by Mitch Heins on 05-02-2017 at 10:00 am

I’ve had the privilege over the years to be a part of a lot of great companies, teams and projects. Some of these efforts were quite successful while others were not. It begs the question of why is it so hard to enable design reuse and capture the untapped potential of the collective intelligence within our companies? Up till now, companies… Read More