IC Manage

IC Manage
Private
Industry Software Configuration Management
Founded 2002
Headquarters Campbell, California
Key people
 CEO: Dean Drako EVP: Shiv Sikand
Website www.icmanage.com

IC Manage is a company that provides design data and IP management, Big Data Analytics, and High Performance Computing software to semiconductor, systems, Internet of Things and artificial intelligence IC companies. [1]

History

In 2003, IC Manage was founded by Shiv Sikand and Dean Drako.[2]

In 2004, IC Manage introduced the beta version of its commercial design data management software system that provided version control, configuration management and software bug tracking. The design management system included a graphical Cadence Design Framework user interface and worked with both the Cadence and the OpenAccess databases. It tracked only modified files and stored metadata about revisions and configurations in a relational database separate from the design data.[3]

In 2007, IC Manage announced its Global Design Platform (GDP) design data management system. GDP had bi-directional component tracking for IC revisions and derivatives; mixing, match, and reuse of components and semiconductor intellectual property cores across local and remote design sites; defect tracking and workspace synchronization to the same state when a designer reported, fixed, or verified a software bug.[4]

In 2007, Nvidia manufactured over 100 chips that used IC Manage software during design.[5]

In 2009, IC Manage content management software was mentioned as a technology driver enabling semiconductor companies to do design work across local and remote geographic locations, as part of a significant trend toward outsourcing design work to other countries. IC Manage's software creates a workspace that abstracts the design data from the underlying directory organization.[6]

In 2011, Deepchip.com ranked IC Manage IP Central (IP Pro) as the #1 item to see at the Design Automation conference.[7]

From 2010 through 2014, IC Manage has been included in the annual "What to See at DAC" list by the GarySmith EDA analyst firm. In 2010 for Enterprise Tools,[8] in 2011 for Design Management,[9] in 2012 and 2013 for Design Debug,[10][11] and in 2014 for Enterprise tools.[12]

In 2014, IC Manage was selected as one of Deloitte Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. IC Manage grew 178 percent during the 4-year period from 2008 to 2012.[13]

In 2015, Design Automation Conference attendees ranked IC Manage Envision Design Progress Analytics as the #1 item at the conference.[14]

In 2016, Design Automation Conference attendees ranked IC Manage as #3 at the conference, based on its software application accelerator product.[15]

Products

  • Global Design Platform (GDP) - In April 2007, IC Manage announced its Global Design Platform (GDP) design data management system.[16]
  • IP Central/ IP Pro - In June 2011, the company introduced its IP Central platform targeted to design and verification teams for IP reuse, including publishing, sharing and integration and revisions of internal and third party IP, and IP bug dependency tracing.[17]
  • IC Manage Views – In May 2012, the company announced its IC Manage Views workspace acceleration software, a version aware file system which presents complete virtual workspace views, and transfers data on demand to a local file cache.[18]
  • IC Manage Envision Design Progress Analytics - In May 2015, the company announced its IC Manage Envision Big Data Predictive Analytics, providing real-time design progress analytics for predicting and managing projects.[19]
  • IC Manage Envision Verification Analytics - In December 2017, the company announced its IC Manage Envision Verification Analytics, to help companies allocate their resources in near real-time to accelerate their verification schedules, including identifying verification bottlenecks with specific design changes.[20][21] The company also announced its Big Data Labs.[22][23]
  • IC Manage GDP XL-Git - In March 2018, the company released its IC Manage GDP XL-Git design & IP management system with hybrid version control, including a Git API. The hybrid system combines both centralized version control and distributed version control.[24]

Customer Applications

The following semiconductor companies have discussed applications for IC Manage's technologies at conferences.[25]

See also

References

  1. ↑ IC Manage Retrieved 2018
  2. ↑ EDA Cafe IC Manage: A Roadmap out to Forever
  3. ↑ EETimes Design management tools get lift
  4. ↑ EETimes IC design management goes global
  5. ↑ Deepchip Published user reports on IC Manage
  6. ↑ EETimes As design goes global, tools get more critical
  7. ↑ DeepChip Must See List for DAC 2011
  8. ↑ GarySmithEDA What to see at DAC 2010
  9. ↑ GarySmithEDA What to see at DAC 2011
  10. ↑ GarySmithEDA What to see at DAC 2012
  11. ↑ GarySmithEDA What to see at DAC 2013
  12. ↑ GarySmithEDA What to see at DAC 2014
  13. ↑ Deloitte "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-03. Retrieved 2014-08-26. Technology Fast 500 2013 Ranking
  14. ↑ DeepChip IC Manage Tapeout Predictor #1 tool at DAC'15
  15. ↑ DeepChip IC Manage PeerCache and CDNS Rocketick get #3 as Best of 2016
  16. ↑ EETimes IC design management goes global
  17. ↑ SoCCentral IC Manage Announces IP Central to Maximize IP Reuse
  18. ↑ EDN Asia IC Manage unleashes storage acceleration software
  19. ↑ EE Journal Design Management Goes Big Data
  20. ↑ EE News Digging EDA's big data to speed up chip verification and tape-out
  21. ↑ Tech Design Forums IC Manage expands big-data work
  22. ↑ EE Times Is Big Data for IC Design Too Big to Manage?
  23. ↑ EE Journal More EDA Big Data - IC Manage Rolls Out Labs
  24. ↑ DeepChip Git is "unstoppable" in design and IP management
  25. ↑ IC Manage conference videos & transcripts Retrieved 2018
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