CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
31 October 2007
Company News
Si2 Announces Contribution from Synopsys to the OpenAccess Coalition
The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) announced that Synopsys has donated an oaTcl-based OpenAccess graphical visualization program (oaViewer) to the OpenAccess Coalition. OaViewer will be demonstrated at the OpenAccess Conference on November 5, 2007 at the Sun Microsystems Santa Clara Conference Center.
OaViewer enables software developers of OpenAccess API-based programs to view design data such as hierarchical schematics and layouts including PCells. Prior to the donation, most developers accomplished this by writing their own viewers. The primary purpose of oaViewer is to aid software developers and help enable faster adoption of OpenAccess.
"Synopsys is donating the oaViewer to the OpenAccess community," said Rich Goldman, vice president of Strategic Market Development at Synopsys. "This is an important step towards analog design tool interoperability. We see this donation and the recent work in Interoperable PCell Libraries (IPL) to be significant improvements in making OpenAccess a truly open custom analog environment. We hope to inspire more donations to enable OpenAccess to become a complete usable analog solution."
Jim Wilmore, Co-Chief Architect of the OpenAccess ChangeTeam, pointed out that "The OpenAccess community has expressed an interest in the availability of a layout browser for OpenAccess for many years, so this contribution is very welcome. It is another example of growing vitality of the OpenAccess Contribution Site."
"This donation from Synopsys is the latest instance of the OpenAccess Community identifying, developing, and making public new capabilities to enable and even accelerate the adoption and proliferation of OpenAccess. We greatly appreciate this Synopsys donation, as well as their input to the overall evolution of OpenAccess, as part of their role as a Director-level member of the OpenAccess Coalition," says Sumit DasGupta, sr. vice-president of engineering, Si2.
The viewer utility is available for download at: https://openeda.si2.org/help/OA_Contributions.php
More details on the OpenAccess Conference can be found at this link: http://www.si2.org/?page=890
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