IC Manage
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IC Manage is a company that provides design data management software to semiconductor
companies for managing their IC design databases between design teams. IC Manage also provides enterprise software for large scale Perforce
customers. IC Manage provides a structured IC design workflow for analog electronics and digital electronics.
tracking. The design management system included a graphical Cadence Design Framework user interface and worked with both the Cadence and the OpenAccess
databases. It tracked only modified files and stored metadata
about revisions and configurations in a relational database
separate from the design data.
In 2007, IC Manage announced its Global Design Platform (GDP) design data management system. GDP had bi-directional component tracking for IC revisions and derivatives; mixing, match, and reuse of components and semiconductor intellectual property core
s across local and remote design sites; defect tracking
and workspace synchronization to the same state when a designer reported, fixed, or verified a software bug.
In 2007, Nvidia manufactured over 100 chips that used IC Manage software during design.
In 2009, IC Manage content management software was mentioned as a technology driver enabling semiconductor companies to do design work across local and remote geographic locations, as part of a significant trend toward outsourcing design work to other countries. IC Manage's software creates a workspace that abstracts the design data from the underlying directory organization.
In 2010, IC Manage was selected as one of the top 21 noteworthy technologies out of 150 companies at the EDA industry's Design Automation Conference by the GarySmith EDA analyst firm.
Semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity due to electron flow intermediate in magnitude between that of a conductor and an insulator. This means a conductivity roughly in the range of 103 to 10−8 siemens per centimeter...
companies for managing their IC design databases between design teams. IC Manage also provides enterprise software for large scale Perforce
Perforce
Perforce is a commercial, proprietary, centralized revision control system developed by Perforce Software, Inc.-Architecture:Perforce is a client/server system.The server manages a central database and a master repository of file versions....
customers. IC Manage provides a structured IC design workflow for analog electronics and digital electronics.
History
In 2004, IC Manage introduced the beta version of its commercial design data management software system that provided version control, configuration management and software bugSoftware bug
A software bug is the common term used to describe an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program or system that produces an incorrect or unexpected result, or causes it to behave in unintended ways. Most bugs arise from mistakes and errors made by people in either a program's...
tracking. The design management system included a graphical Cadence Design Framework user interface and worked with both the Cadence and the OpenAccess
OpenAccess
OpenAccess is a community effort to provide interoperability, including unified data exchange among integrated circuit design tools through an open standard data API and reference database supporting that API for IC design...
databases. It tracked only modified files and stored metadata
Metadata
The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...
about revisions and configurations in a relational database
Relational database
A relational database is a database that conforms to relational model theory. The software used in a relational database is called a relational database management system . Colloquial use of the term "relational database" may refer to the RDBMS software, or the relational database itself...
separate from the design data.
In 2007, IC Manage announced its Global Design Platform (GDP) design data management system. GDP had bi-directional component tracking for IC revisions and derivatives; mixing, match, and reuse of components and semiconductor intellectual property core
Semiconductor intellectual property core
In electronic design a semiconductor intellectual property core, IP core, or IP block is a reusable unit of logic, cell, or chip layout design that is the intellectual property of one party. IP cores may be licensed to another party or can be owned and used by a single party alone...
s across local and remote design sites; defect tracking
Defect tracking
In engineering, defect tracking is the process of finding defects in a product , and making new versions of the product that fix the defects...
and workspace synchronization to the same state when a designer reported, fixed, or verified a software bug.
In 2007, Nvidia manufactured over 100 chips that used IC Manage software during design.
In 2009, IC Manage content management software was mentioned as a technology driver enabling semiconductor companies to do design work across local and remote geographic locations, as part of a significant trend toward outsourcing design work to other countries. IC Manage's software creates a workspace that abstracts the design data from the underlying directory organization.
In 2010, IC Manage was selected as one of the top 21 noteworthy technologies out of 150 companies at the EDA industry's Design Automation Conference by the GarySmith EDA analyst firm.