Si2 Launches OpenPDK and OpenAccess Working Groups
Si2 is launching Special Interest Groups for its OpenPDK and OpenAccess programs. Join us at the DAC 2017 organizational meeting, Monday, June 19, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m., Austin Convention Center, Room 7. For details visit https://si2.org/events/dac_sig_meeting/
Si2 oaScript Symposium: Scripting Made Easy
Si2 oaScript Symposium:
Scripting Made Easy
DAC 2017
Austin Convention Center, Room 7
Tuesday, June 20, 2017, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
- Can you easily write new applications for your users?
We’ll show you how. - Can you easily integrate script tools into your applications?
We’ll show you how. - Do your applications have a fast-track learning system?
We’ll show you ours.
Join us at DAC 2017 to learn how EDA engineers, product developers and designers are more productive using oaScript.
System level co-design of chip, package and PCB using native design databases in a unified 3D cockpit
Author: James Church
Today’s advanced packaging design requires low layer count and high pin density to satisfy the cost pressures facing the electronics industry. By leveraging the native design formats, rules and technologies of each substrate designers can achieve a cohesive, optimized and properly constrained product.
Combining the OpenAccess IC layout database and Zuken’s own Package/PCB database format into a single hierarchically linked 3D system, enables system level optimization and visualization for a top-down or bottom-up flow that is not achievable in discrete point tools.
This paper was voted “Best Paper” by an audience survey taken after every presentation.
EDA Scripting Unleashed (Voted-Best-Paper)
Author: James Masters, Intel
In many traditional design flows, high-performance robust EDA capabilities are limited to formal EDA tools. Design Automation (DA) engineers build additional project-specific capabilities either by using an EDA tool’s proprietary scripting API or by creating a standalone lightweight script that relies upon translation of design data into other formats. This results in extra runtime overhead, additional possible points of failure, and a burden of working with lossy design data formats.
With the advent of oaScript, DA engineers can quickly write scripts that directly read and write OpenAccess (OA) data using one of their favorite scripting languages – Perl, Python, Ruby, or Tcl. Also, a new OA extension is now available which provides high-speed layer manipulation and boolean operations directly within an oaScript – called “oaxPop” (OA eXtension Polygon Operators).
The combination of oaScript with oaxPop enables a DA engineer to write high-performance robust EDA capabilities without the overhead of using a formal EDA tool. This presentation will demonstrate how oaScript and oaxPop have been used together to create real-life applications that are used in a production design flow.
BIO:
James Master
s graduated from the University of Phoenix with a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology with an emphasis on computer programming. He has worked at Intel Corporation for 20 years in various full-custom design implementation roles.
James is currently managing a team focused on improving custom layout productivity for Intel’s advanced process technologies. James is an advocate of open standards that help streamline the design flow and maximize productivity and reuse.
Outside of work James enjoys outdoor activities such as camping, fishing, hiking, gardening, etc.
Building Successful OpenAccess Applications While Avoiding Bumps in the Road
DAC 2016
Description
The OpenAccess Database is the world’s most widely used, open reference database for IC design, with a supporting standard C++ API. It is superb for developing a stand-alone design tool and can also provide interoperability between EDA tools from different companies. The API is available in scripting languages through our extensions offering if C++ is more than you require. During this panel discussion, application developers using OpenAccess and OpenAccess extensions will describe their experiences along the way. The panel will be moderator by OpenAccess Coalition leadership.
What you will learn
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The valuable role OpenAccess plays in the EDA world
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Potential obstacles developers may encounter, and proven solutions
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Helpful hints for OpenAccess developers
Panelists
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* Moderator: Michaela Guiney, Product Engineering Director, Cadence Design Systems
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Shiv Sikand, Executive Vice President of Engineering, IC Manage
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Rudy Albachten, Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Intel
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Brian Bradburn, Senior Director, Silvaco, Inc.
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Ted Chou, Manager of Corporate Support, AnaGlobe Technology
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Paul Clewes, Vice President, Research and Development, Pulsic
Building Successful OpenAccess Applications While Avoiding Bumps in the Road
Advanced Track Pattern Modeling in Si2 OpenAccess
JAMES D. MASTERS,
senior CAD engineer at Intel,
discusses advanced track
modeling in the
Si2 OpenAccess database.
OpenAccess Membership Documents
OpenAccess Membership Required Documents
First: For access to current OpenAccess and oaScript (and other extensions) source code, the member must join the OpenAccess Coalition.
OpenAccess Membership agreement: OAC_Generic_Membership_Agreement.pdf
Second: Use of OpenAccess requires the OpenAccess–Internal Use and Distribution License V 4.0 Oct. 1, 2004.
Third: Use of Si2 OpenAccess Scripting Interface requires the ESG (Extensions Steering Group) OpenAccess ESG License v2.0 (January 31, 2013)
Paul Stabler New Chairman of Si2 OpenAccess Board
Paul Stabler, senior engineering manager in the IBM EDA organization, has been elected chairman of Si2 OpenAccess Coalition for 2017. He replaces Rudy Albachten of Intel, who assumes an advisory role as vice chairman.
The OAC board oversees operational decisions for OpenAccess, the world’s most widely used, open-reference database with its own supporting standard API.
A 35-year IBM veteran, Stabler currently manages clocking, design for manufacturing, and integration tools and methodology. He has been an OAC volunteer for five years.
Nicolas Williams of Mentor Graphics Joins Si2 Standards-Setting Group
Nicolas Williams of Mentor Graphics has been elected to the Si2 Extensions Steering Group. The ESG determines which Si2 OpenAccess Coalition extensions become OAC working groups and move forward for possible industry standardization. At Mentor, Nicolas is responsible for specifying and leading product direction of Tanner tools for analog, RF and MEMS devices. He also leads PDK conversions efforts for Tanner tools and works closely with customers to develop application specific EDA solutions.
Si2 is a research and development joint venture that provides collaborative research and development leading to accelerated interoperability solutions and standards for integrated circuit design.
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