In the global IC industry, business models have evolved into design foundry models and manufacturing foundry service models over the past twenty years. The concept of system-on-a-chip (SoC) refers to integrating all components of a computer or other electronic system in a single integrated circuit (IC). Due to the increasing complexities of SoC devices, it is impossible for one IC design house ...

The nature of IC design has is necessarily evolving to a more data-centric design flow in which EDA tools share a common information in a design database without the negative cost and quality impacts of data translation from sequential files. In support of this new paradigm, a collection of mainstream companies within the IC supply chain have sponsored the development of an open industry data m...