OpenAccess Workshop Presentation, March Joining OpenAccess: the R&D balance sheet Ivo van Zandvoort VP Engineering Sagantec Netherlands

OpenAccess Workshop Presentation, March Sagantec (booth F85) As a back-end company, our products are used in time- critical parts of the flow and the details make or break the design Products for physical layouts:  Reuse and migration of proven physical design  Accelerated implementation of new designs Both the design data and the technology data are inputs for our products

OpenAccess Workshop Presentation, March Process and Design Data Translator LEF/DEF DFII GDSII Process Data Process Data Transistor Sizing data Transistor Sizing data

OpenAccess Workshop Presentation, March Challenges Keep up with technology progress  DSM requires tight integration between different design steps  Layout and design rule descriptions become more and more complex Improve customer efficiency  Re-use existing information  Tight and flawless integration with other EDA tools Robust and high quality software  Focus on the important issues  Fast response on customer problems

OpenAccess Workshop Presentation, March Open Access R&D benefits Less interface effort  One database for all EDA tools  Clearly documented API  “Unknown” properties are kept and do not need understanding from Sagantec  Automatic support for new utilities, e.g. NSF/OASIS Influence on content  Participation in workgroups  Use our specific knowledge to co-define the database Less maintenance effort  No surprise incompatibilities  Early access to release schedules and latest versions Easier problem solving  Database can also be accessed  All input in one format  Share tools for analyzing problems

OpenAccess Workshop Presentation, March Open Access R&D costs Incorporation  Learning yet another API  Implementation work Additional overhead  (Temporarily) supporting an additional database  Work done in the OpenAccess workgroups

OpenAccess Workshop Presentation, March Process and Design Data with OA Open Access Database Design data Technology Data

OpenAccess Workshop Presentation, March Sagantec in OpenAccess Joined October 2002 Training course followed by engineers Member of TechWG working group  Bring our knowledge about process information to OA  Streamline data with other tools Integration process is starting  Demo at DAC with semiconductor company

OpenAccess Workshop Presentation, March Conclusions R&D benefits  Less effort in many different areas  More time to focus on the real issues  Influence on the contents  Easier problem solving R&D costs  Work in TechWG Customer benefits  Plug and play design flows  All design data is kept between tools  Single tech-file maintenance OpenAccess lets EDA companies & customers focus on their core─technology!!