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IP Security: Protecting Your Most Important IP Assets With Methodics IPLM

IP Security: Protecting Your Most Important IP Assets With Methodics IPLM
by Admin on 05-19-2021 at 12:00 am

Live Webinar, May 19

Protecting IP is a challenge. Many companies are constantly dealing with leaky IP portfolios, either due to nefarious action or just accidental behavior.

The complexity of design, with IP being made up of large nested hierarchies of other designers, makes tracking IP that much more difficult.

Today we have

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Your IP Portfolio is Probably Leaking. What Can You Do About It?

Your IP Portfolio is Probably Leaking. What Can You Do About It?
by Mike Gianfagna on 05-13-2021 at 2:00 pm
Categories: EDA, Events, Methodics

Your IP Portfolio is Probably Leaking What Can You Do About It

This topic is inspired by a presentation at last year’s DAC presented by Methodics, now part of Perforce. The issues raised by the original presentation are still quite relevant in the current business climate. IP leakage is something everyone should consider as part of their normal business operations. Your design IP really … Read More

Podcast EP18: The Story Behind Combining Methodics and Perforce

Podcast EP18: The Story Behind Combining Methodics and Perforce
by Daniel Nenni on 04-30-2021 at 10:00 am

Dan and Mike are joined by Simon Butler, founder of Methodics and Brad Hart, CTO of Perforce. We explore the acquisition of Methodics by Perforce, including motivation, strategy and a look to the future. We also discuss some of the history of Methodics and how they became successful.

For further discussion, visit their blog The… Read More

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Third Generation of IP Lifecycle Management Launched

Third Generation of IP Lifecycle Management Launched
by Daniel Payne on 11-17-2020 at 10:00 am
Categories: EDA, Methodics

Methodics and Perforce

Back in July I first read the news that Perforce had acquired Methodics, and wasn’t too surprised, because many of the EDA vendors that we blog about do get acquired or merge with similar sized companies in order to be part of a bigger offering. When Methodics announced a webinar introducing IPLM 3.0 (IP Lifecycle Management),… Read More

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What’s At the Center of Your SoC Design Process?

What’s At the Center of Your SoC Design Process?
by Daniel Payne on 06-15-2020 at 10:00 am
Categories: EDA, Methodics
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IP SoC min

I love starting a new project from scratch, because there’s that optimistic feeling of having no constraints and being able to creatively express myself and get the job done right this time. For SoC designs today there are teams of engineers and maybe a program manager plus a marketing person that define the features, budget… Read More

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Workflow Automation Applied to IP Lifecycle Management

Workflow Automation Applied to IP Lifecycle Management
by Daniel Payne on 10-04-2019 at 10:00 am
Categories: EDA, Methodics

Methodics, Flowable

I often blog about a specific EDA tool, or an IP block, but the way that SoC design teams approach their designs and then use tools and IP can either be a manual, ad-hoc process, or part of something that is well-documented, following a design methodology. Back in the 1980’s while at Intel our team first created a design methodology… Read More

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IP Lifecycle Management and Permissions

IP Lifecycle Management and Permissions
by Daniel Payne on 07-29-2019 at 10:00 am
Categories: EDA, Methodics

Percipient IPLM

My first professional experience with computers and file permissions was at Intel in the late 1970s, where we used big iron IBM mainframes located far away in another state, and each user could edit their own files along with browse shared files from co-workers in the same department. I saw this same file permission concept when … Read More

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Cloud-based Functional Verification

Cloud-based Functional Verification
by Daniel Payne on 04-08-2019 at 12:00 pm
Categories: EDA, Events, Methodics

The big three EDA vendors are constantly putting more of their tools in the cloud in order to speed up the design and verification process for chip designers, but how do engineering teams approach using the cloud for functional verification tests and regressions? At the recent Cadence user group meeting (CDNLive) there was a presentation… Read More

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Combining IP and Product Lifecycle Tools

Combining IP and Product Lifecycle Tools
by Daniel Payne on 04-03-2018 at 12:00 pm
Categories: EDA, Methodics

No single EDA company provides all of the tools needed to define requirements, design exploration, track IP, simulate, manage and verify a complex SoC system, so it makes sense that EDA vendors and point tool companies have tools that work together to achieve all of these difficult tasks. Systems design has been around for decades… Read More

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Rethinking IP Lifecycle Management

Rethinking IP Lifecycle Management
by Daniel Payne on 10-18-2017 at 12:00 pm
Categories: EDA, Methodics

We recently saw both Apple and Samsung introduce new smart phones, and realize that the annual race to introduce sophisticated devices that are attractive and differentiated is highly competitive. If either of these companies misses a market window then fortunes can quickly change. SoCs with billions of transistors like smart… Read More