Sos ads from cliosoft is the only soc design management software for rf design teams using ads from keysight technologies. The same could be said for trends in design, though we dont have to reconstruct these design trends we tend to see them ahead of us. Cvs supports updatingchecking out files based on dates. New rules for arithmetic data path checking, dubious logic modeling, and rtl coding policy. Looking for a userfriendly gui revision control system i have a friend who works on a big project and would like to get a user friendly graphical revision control system program to manage his project. How cliosoft keeps ic design data management simple ic design engineers want to spend their time designing, not managing files. This means that any data management needs to be integrated into the tools so that it doesnt require the designer to go somewhere different. It is built around a clientserver model, and works across the internet or on intranets. Dean drako of ic manage hi, john, as a starting point, i have put together a first chart of what the primary dm systems in eda offer outofthebox according to the 15 feature and function metrics previously defined. The microelectronics support centre is pleased to announce the availability of the cliosoft sos design management tools through europractice. The sos debugging extension cannot retrieve local names, so the output for local. Edward arthur we use rcsmakescripts to manage all of our asicverification activities.
A way to waive violations from the command line, design source files or gui. The sos7 platform is the only design management solution for multisite design collaboration for all types of designs analog. Cliosoft and silvaco collaborate to integrate cliosoft s. The companys sos design collaboration platform provides a multisite development environment that enables global team collaboration, ip management, design reuse and management of design data from concept through tapeout. Drako compares ic manage, subversion designsync, cliosoft, cvs. This episode introduces the basic workflow youll use when working with a version control system. Evaluating data management software design and reuse. Cliosoft and silvaco collaborate to integrate cliosofts. Invoke sos commands from any shell, script, or make file.
It enables rf designers to work with other designers, located either locally or at remote design sites, to build and collaborate with other designers on the same design, from concept to gdsii. The place where a user works and keeps local copies of the files is called workdir. Register for the upcoming series of training on the cliosoft support portal. Drako compares ic manage, subversion, designsync, cliosoft, cvs from. Secondly, designers often live in a graphical environment on their desktop and are not just typing commands into a command line interface. The sos platform from cliosoft is the leading design data and ip management platform for hardware design engineers. Makes sos very easy to use and provides unprecedented visibility into the project. Cliosoft was launched in 1997 by srinath anantharaman as a selffunded company, with the sos design collaboration platform as its first product. How cliosoft keeps ic design data management simple. Hardware configuration management at dac 2012 semiwiki. Cliosoft is the pioneer and leading developer of hardware configuration management hcm and ip management solutions for the semiconductor industry. Today cliosoft, driven by the experience and innovation of a number of engineers. Cadence connections partner cliosoft, a provider of hardware configuration management software, wants to keep it that way by providing easytouse tools that work seamlessly with ic design tools including. The aall option is a shortcut for l and p combined.
It has both a command line interface and a tcltk gui interface. Cliosoft and silvaco collaborate to integrate cliosofts sos. Hello, and welcome to the second episode of the software carpentry lecture on version control. I would be very wary if you are trying to do the management of the files using a direct revision control system. The video also shows how cliosoft s sos design management platform. Last year i met with srinath anantharaman to get an introduction to their company and how their tools are used by both frontend engineers and backend ic layout designers. The sos rcs tool has been used seamlessly by asic designers, software product and test, and firmware engineers on both windows and linux. Command line interface non intrusive production tested intuitive graphical interface modeled after the mac file browser and extended to display file revision history in one integrated browser. Cliosoft is a powerful and easytouse dental imaging software that can track thousands of dental images and provides the dentist with highquality image management and adjustment tools. Cliosoft and silvaco today announced sos for silvaco, a soc design management platform developed by cliosoft, inc.
Last monday i sat down with grego sanguinetti in beaverton, oregon at the campus of tektronix to hear about how they design their ics using eda tools from multiple vendors. We started our sos primary and cache services and used the sos client to create design. Cliosoft and silvaco collaborate to integrate cliosoft s sos design data management platform with silvacos analog custom design tools soc design management platform offers analogmixedsignal design teams seamless revision and release management of design data from within gateway and expert cad tools. Sos design data collaboration platform sos is the leading data collaboration platform for hardware design teams. Introduction cadence and cliosoft made a webinar recently and ill summarize what i learned from it. Archaeologists often use tools found in digs as a major indicator of trends in civilizations. This page simply contains detailed instructions on how to remove sos 6. Cliosoft sos cliosoft sos is a revision control tool based on rcs. Cliosoft is a developer of design data and ip management solutions for analogmixedsignal, rf, custom ic and digital designs. Icm zero time sync, cliosoft visual diff, methodics. Cliosoft is the pioneer and leading developer of enterprise design configuration and enterprise ip management solutions for the semiconductor industry. Next month at dac i plan to visit the cliosoft booth to get an update on whats new with hardware configuration management hcm. A short introduction to the need for version control and design data management in the agilent advanced design system ads flow.
Synopsys mentor cadence tsmc globalfoundries snps ment. The place where the revision control stores the info about all revisions of the files is called repository. Included within the cliosoft suite are tools for management of analogue and mixedsignal designs, digital designs and ip blocks. Cliosoft is the pioneer and leading developer of hardware configuration management hcm and ip management solutions for. The sos debugging extension cannot retrieve local names, so the output for local names is in the format. The data shared on the cloud filestore instance was available on the compute engine instances, ready to use. The solution involves integration of cliosoft s flagship sos7 design management. Cliosoft s founder, srinath anantharaman, recognized that hardware development could benefit from some of the same techniques and methods as software development. Recreates the and provides unprecedented visibility into the project. In the ever exciting world of design data management, users at dac noticed the new zero time sync part of ic manage. Multisite development also impacts startups as they try to minimize their burn rate by having an offsite design center such as india, china or vietnam. Introduction to sos viaads cliosoft design management in.
Designed 20170mhz current starved vco with rj of 7ps at 100mhz introduced version control using cliosoft sos to the analog team including product. Almost 20% of the company has accessed cliosoft sos either through the sos command line, sos revision control of text files, sos revision control via cadence df2, andor the sos webbased client. As companies scale by adding more engineers, there is a tendency to spread across multiple design sites as they strive to hire the best available talent. It supports all the basic operations and operates on directories as well. Finally there are tools created specifically for the hardware design environment, such as cliosoft s sos. Cliosoft also provides an enterprise ip management platform for design companies to easily create, publish and reuse their design ips called designhub. The jobscheduler command line interface cli is used for the following areas of operation. Command line interface invoke sos commands from any shell, script, or make file. The only data management platform built for digital, analog, rf and mixed signal designs, sos empowers design teams located in single or multiple design centers to collaborate efficiently on their designs. Sos is currently integrated with tools from cadence, synopsys, mentor and keysight technologies. This page is not a piece of advice to remove sos 6. Sos gui and command line time 11am pst, duration 1 hour.
The n option disables the display of source file names and line numbers. Soc design management platform offers analogmixedsignal design teams seamless revision and release management of design data from within gateway and expert cad tools. Icm zero time sync, cliosoft visual diff, methodics, designsync i want it yesterday. About half the engineers use the command line interface and the other half use emacs to checkincheckout files. Introduction revision control systems allow to keep and retrieve older versions of a file or in some systems a directory. How tektronix uses hardware configuration management tools. The objective then, was to help manage front end flows for soc designs.
A way to focus on specific portions of your design. Cliosoft customers include the top 20 semiconductor companies worldwide. The trend in this case is the growing importance of sensors in. Makes sos very easy to use version control tracks file renames, deletes and moves. Tool trends highlight an industry trend for ams designs. The company provides two unique platforms that enable ip design management and reuse. Cvs does work across many platforms, including just about every conceivable form of unix as well as windows. Powershell command line interface introduction product. How to set scons to output full expanded command line.
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