SOS Enterprise Edition

Enterprise Edition extends the SOS Design Data Collaboration Platform to address the requirements of large, globally distributed enterprises.

It includes the following three major technology and service components:

IP Management

The rapidly increasing size and accelerated pace of SOC development mandates the reuse of IP blocks either developed internally or purchased from a IP vendor. ClioSoft's Enterprise Edition includes an IP and PDK Management system that allows companies to catalog and keep track of their intellectual property, both internal and external. The IP itself may be managed in SOS, an SCM system such as CVS or SVN, or just located on a file server.

Designers can locate IPs by browsing, searching and comparing IP attributes through a web browser. IPs and PDKs can then be referenced seamlessly in a design project. Designers are notified as soon as there is a newer release and if needed, can quickly update to the new release. IP librarians can generate reports determining which IPs are commonly used. Managers can generate a bill of materials to show which IPs are used within a design project.

Additionally, since the IP management system is developed on top of the SOS platform it is very customizable. It can be easily adapted to track any attributes and meet the unique needs of a design team's flow.

Hierarchical Reference and Reuse Engine

A project can reference and reuse design objects or entire design libraries in other projects across the corporate WAN. Design data management of large projects can be simplified by partitioning into smaller, independently managed sub-projects at local or remote sites. Design intellectual property (IP) can be re-used across the enterprise thereby improving productivity and reducing time to market.

Universal Data Management Adaptor (UDMA)

Design data generated by EDA tools such as schematic or layout editors are varied and complex. It is infeasible for design engineers to makes sense of the tool generated design files to determine:

Which files should be managed
Which files should not be managed
Which files belong together as a set to create a design object

To address this problem DM vendors offer custom data management adaptors for popular IC flows such as Cadence Virtuoso. However, there are a large number of design tools which have no support for data management.

UDMA is a unique rule-based technology that allows the SOS administrator to quickly and easily define the relationship between design objects and the data files produced by the design tool. Using the specified UDMA rules, SOS automatically recognizes and packages co-managed file sets into user-recognizable composite design objects. This SOS technology allows enterprises to manage and version control design data from practically any design tool, at abstraction levels that designer use (libraries and cells) while eliminating the tedium of sorting through a complex set of tool-generated files.

UDMA "future proofs" a design team’s data management needs by providing an easily configurable solution for any design tools that the team may adopt.

Given below are examples of how UDMA can be used to manage design data from several different tools: