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With Data Model 6, the newest version of OpenAccess, you can dramatically improve design productivity and the ability to get your innovation to market.

 DM6 will help the industry keep pace with cloud migration through multi-threaded and multi-process parallel applications.

Reported savings of 1-6 months and $1.4 million per project.

Extensions: Magnify the Power of OpenAccess

Extensions are a suite of enhancements that magnify the power and flexibility of OpenAccess, including:

  • oaScript allows users to create personalized design scripts in any of four languages: Python, tcl, Ruby, or perl.
  • oaxPop brings the power of the popular Boost Polygon Library to the OpenAccess database.
  • oatDebug  allows developers to view their application’s OA database parameters.

Wise Insights for Fabless and IDM Design Teams

  • Quickly access all of your design data, from transistor-level to tool-level.
  • Stitch together optimal design flows using best-in-class proprietary and supplier tools.
  • Efficiently create reusable scripts to automate design tasks, mine data, or fix bugs.
  • Develop interoperable, point-of-use tools using Python, Ruby, Perl, tcl, or C++.
  • Easily correct costly design errors on-the-fly with OA’s scripting interface.

Serious, Interoperable Tools are Built With OpenAccess

  • OA-supported EDA tools are plug-and-play interoperable with most design flows.
  • OA Database tool access is light-years faster than translated-file transfers.
  • OA Data Model 6 enables multi-threaded, multi-processing. Up to 10X speedups.
  • Create rapid prototypes using Python, Ruby, Perl or tcl. Build a product in just months.
  • Quality-checked OA updates offer performance and capability enhancements.

The Fast Path to Foundry Design Interoperability

Design data provided to foundries comes in many forms. The industry’s most widely used database, OpenAccess, provides foundries with broad compatibility with multiple data formats, and includes translators into and out of the database.

  • Make your foundry more compatible with a broader market
  • Save cost and reduce risk in data translation
  • Use multiple design checking tools, on the same design, simultaneously
  • Write small, fast targeted design tools with reusable Python scripts
  • Use oaZip to transfer the entire OpenAccess database and eliminate slow file loading and unloading

Developing a New Generation of OpenAccess Experts

University Member faculty and students benefits

  • Eligible to use a license-keyed binary version of oaScript 
  • Access to member-only training materials and videos 
  • Participate in Si2 OA working groups

Internships

  • Students may qualify for internship with Si2, where volunteer and paid interns receive real-world experience code development, and exposure to leading semiconductor corporations. Apply here.
  • Interns have subsequently been hired by companies such as Cadence, Intel and Qualcomm. 

Current University Members include:

  • Eindhoven University of Technology
  • NC State University
  • Stanford University
  • State University of New York
  • University of Florida

Success Stories

IDM and Fabless Successes

EDA Successes

University Successes

I couldn’t have started this company without OpenAccess and oaScript.

          — Successful Startup, DAC 2019



We only have a few experienced designers, but we have plenty of young people who know Python. The oaScript Python API makes it all work.

          — Fabless Company, Summer 2018



I just moved to this new company and I want my (OpenAccess) tools back.

          — Fabless Company Which Joined a Few Weeks Later, Summer 2019



With oaScript I get quick results compared to opening a design editor. I can get information about nets, ports, hierarchy dependencies, connectivity and more.

          — Fabless Company, OpenAccess Live Forum, April 2019



The good thing about OpenAccess is that I can interface it to anything.

          — EDA Supplier, DAC 2017 Presentation



We are very, very happy with oaScript. It is extremely powerful.

          — Integrated Device Manufacturer, DAC 2017 Presentation

Latest OpenAccess News

OpenAccess Members

Intel, Microsoft, IBM Technologists Elected to Si2 OpenAccess Coalition Leadership Posts

December 10, 2020/in Frontpage, OpenAccess, Silicon Integration Initiative, Uncategorized /by Terry Berke

Raymond Rodriguez, director of Strategic CAD Capabilities at Intel, has been elected to a one-year term as chair of the Silicon Integration Initiative OpenAccess Coalition board of directors. Ben Bowers, principal design engineer at Microsoft, was elected OAC vice-chair. Gregory Schaeffer, senior software engineer at IBM, was reelected as the OpenAccess Change Team co-architect. The […]

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Manny Sifakis Named Qualcomm Representative To Si2 OpenAccess Coalition

September 23, 2020/in Frontpage, OpenAccess /by Terry Berke

Emmanuel (Manny) Sifakis has been named Qualcomm’s representative to the Si2 OpenAccess Coalition.  Manny is currently senior staff engineering manager at Qualcomm, where he leads the CAD IP Quality and Design Management teams. Manny has more than 15 years of experience in the VLSI field.  His roles have ranged from RTL to GDS delivery of […]

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Agile Analog

Anaglobe Technology, Inc.

Analog Rails/Get2Spec, Inc.

ANSYS, Inc.

Avatar Integrated Systems, Inc.

AWR Corp, a National Instruments Corp.

Blue Cheetah Analog Design

Cadence Design Systems

Chengdu Higon IC Design Co., Ltd.

CST–Computer Simulation Technology GmbH

Dassault Systemes

DXCorr Design, Inc.

Empyrean Software

Entasys Design, Inc.

Members F-L

Fractal Technologies, Inc.

Google LLC

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

HW21

IBM Corporation

Intel Corp.

INTENTO DESIGN SAS

Invecas Inc.

Jedat Inc.

Keysight Technologies

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation

Life Technologies Corporation, a part of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

Luceda Photonics N.V.

Members M-Z

MediaTek

Mentor, a Siemens Business

Microsoft

Mythic, Inc.

Numem Inc.

PDF Solutions, Inc.

Phoelex

Pulsic Limited

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Savarti, Inc.

Silvaco, Inc.

Synopsys, Inc.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited

Zuken, Inc.

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