Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Cadence Design Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 5 February 2002
Cadence opens up third-party development
The OpenAccess Coalition has released the OpenAccess source code roadmap, and announced OpenConnect, a programme to encourage third-party development with OpenAccess
The OpenAccess Coalition, a group of top electronics companies focused on creating a standard for true interoperability among IC design tools, has released the OpenAccess source code roadmap, and announced OpenConnect, a programme to encourage third-party development with OpenAccess. OpenAccess, based on the Genesis database developed by Cadence Design Systems, is the industry's first open, standard database.
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The database will enable the building of a truly interoperable infrastructure for electronic design technology.
"OpenAccess is a big step toward industry-wide design tool interoperability", said Scott Peterson, director silicon optimisation at LSI Logic Corporation and chairman of the OpenAccess Coalition.
"LSI Logic and the OpenAccess Coalition are encouraged that today's release of the OpenAccess source code will continue to drive the momentum surrounding the OpenAccess movement".
The availability of an open, industry-standard database will accelerate time to market for electronics companies, lower integration costs for designers and enable application developers to focus on creating innovative products.
The OpenAccess database is engineered for high capacity and high performance to address the challenges resulting from the smaller geometries and greater design complexities of today's ICs.
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"The latest announcement demonstrates the commitment to a true open standard by releasing to everyone the source code to a database", said Greg Spirakis, vice president of mobile platforms and director design technology at Intel and chairman of the Design Technology Council.
"No one has done this before, and it was a key requirement of the coalition.
In addition, the OpenAccess Coalition realises the need to build on the existing base of interest, and that's where the OpenConnect program should make a big difference".
The OpenAccess Coalition and Cadence have reached an agreement, which includes a targeted timeline to make the OpenAccess source code publicly available through an online collaborative channel, www.OpenEDA.org.
OpenAccess version 2 has been specifically designed for development and use in a heterogeneous application environment.
To promote the establishment of a single interoperable API and avoid higher migration and support costs, the OpenAccess Coalition and Cadence recommend that organisations use today's release of OpenAccess version 1 source code for proof-of-concept, training and familiarity with data models.
(The OpenAccess version 1 API will not be upwardly compatible with the OpenAccess version 2 API.) To support development and migration, and enable interoperability, Cadence will offer a programme of contract services and toolkits for moving from OpenAccess version 1 to OpenAccess version 2.
OpenAccess version 2, the official OpenAccess database, will accelerate the EDA developer's time-to-revenue for innovative, interoperable products and will reduce development costs.
"Lack of design tool interoperability causes major product development bottlenecks for the electronics industry", said Lavi Lev, executive vice president and general manager, Cadence IC solutions business.
"Because no single company can solve all design challenges that face the electronics industry, collaboration is critical to success.
Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) and the OpenAccess Coalition are great partners for Cadence.
They are committed to reducing the costs and addressing the complexity of chip designs through collaboration and integration".
The OpenConnect program is designed to make it easier for third-party EDA vendors to integrate their tools with OpenAccess.
Through OpenConnect, the OpenAccess Coalition will work to gain EDA vendor participation and to facilitate their integration to OpenAccess.
Full details of the OpenConnect program will be released at the upcoming OpenAccess Conference.
"We are optimistic that the OpenConnect programme will help to significantly expand the reach of OpenAccess to all EDA vendors", said Andrew Graham, president, Si2.
"The OpenAccess Coalition understands the need for support to move these companies into the community to achieve true design technology interoperability".
An OpenAccess Conference is being held from 8th to 9th April 2002 in San Jose, California.
The OpenAccess Coalition strongly encourages all who are currently developing or interested in developing on OpenAccess to attend this event.
To register, or for more information, visit www.si2.org.
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