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News Release from: Accellera
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 6 May 2004
Subcommittee seeks harmony
in electronic design
Accellera is to form a technical subcommittee to improve electronic design library characterisation and tool interoperability
Accellera's Harmony subcommittee will define the common library characterisation dataset needed for IC implementation and equivalent representation of the same data in Synopsys' Liberty format and the IEEE1603T-2003 (Advanced Library Format - ALF) standard. The Harmony standard will improve EDA tool interoperability and reduce the need for tool-specific library extensions.
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It will specify the semantics of the library contents as well as a crossreference between Liberty and ALF.
"Accellera welcomes every opportunity to extend our efforts to improve electronic design automation efficiency", noted Dennis Brophy, Chairman of Accellera.
"Our Harmony group will improve design tool interoperability via a standard library format and address the challenges of next-generation semiconductor process technology characterisation".
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"The benefit of this work can be measured in cost reduction and improvements in quality of design libraries", added Technical Subcommittee Chairman, Dr Wolfgang Roethig, Senior Design Engineering Manager, Design Solutions Centre, NEC Electronics America, who initiated and leads this project.
"With Liberty being the most widely used and ALF being the most comprehensive library format available to the industry, the technical subcommittee selected the strongest possible foundation for this project".
Participation in Accellera's Harmony subcommittee is open to all interested companies and individuals.
To date, more than 12 companies are represented.
These include Accellera members such as Artisan Components, Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics Corp, NEC Electronics America and Synopsys, among others.
Neal Carney, Vice President of Marketing at Artisan, added: "As a semiconductor IP provider, we focus on broad EDA tool interoperability support and welcome this standard to help better serve our customers".
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