CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
29 October 2007
Events News
Si2 Announces Interoperability Demo at the 11th OpenAccess+ Conference OpenAccess+ Conference
The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) announced that a ground-breaking interoperability demonstration will be shown at the 11th OpenAccess+ Conference on November 5, 2007, at Sun Microsystems' Santa Clara Conference Center in Santa Clara, California. Five EDA vendors will be demonstrating an OpenAccess analog/custom design flow, starting with schematic and going all the way through layout & DRC. All five tools will operate on a single OpenAccess database, without any translation or streaming out to GDSII between tools. This is the first time that this many tools from this many vendors have all been able to interoperate on the same database, without translation or conversion. The companies featured are: Ciranova, Mentor Graphics, Silicon Canvas, Silicon Navigator, and Synopsys.
The 11th OpenAccess+ Conference will focus on progress in achieving interoperability, a fundamental promise of OpenAccess. This special presentation will explore experiences shared across 5 EDA companies in how OpenAccess based design data can flow unencumbered across the types of tools that form the backbone of custom IC design flows. It will demonstrate how the OpenAccess model is a baseline for interoperability and how extensions are engineered to complete design data mobility.
Other presentations will explore both vendor and end-user experiences in actual implementations of OpenAccess, as well as a new concept for EDA tools called "OpenEngines." The important new Data Model 4 which allows a new level of application functionality will also be discussed.
For more information, the full agenda, and to register for the conference, visit http://www.si2.org/?page=890
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