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What is IPL Alliance?
IPL Alliance is an industry initiative to establish an interoperable eco-system in custom design. 18 EDA vendors and TSMC are members. The current focus is on interoperable PDK’s. TSMC recently announced their 65nm interoperable PDK that was developed in collaboration with other IPL Alliance members.
Who can join IPL?
Membership is open to all EDA, Semiconductor and foundry companies. Currently there is no cost to join. Members participate in the meetings, contribute to efforts that enable interoperability, and have access to interoperable PDK documentation and reference kits.
How do other companies join this effort?
Logon to www.IPLnow.com to join the IPL alliance and have an influence on its direction.
What are the benefits of an IPL?
- Enables a single PDK library to support any OpenAccess tool
- Reduces PDK development and support costs
- Creates choices in building your analog flow
- Increase design reuse
Who has validated that the IPL members’ tools will all support the standard?
We have developed an OpenAccess testing ecosystem. The ecosystem includes tools and test cases from the participating vendors. The validation is done by loading an IPL library into this ecosystem and exercising the various design tools. In addition, each vendor has individually tested the IPL with their own tools.
What are the next steps for the IPL alliance?
IPL Alliance members will do more interoperability testing with their tools. Continuing educate the industry about the benefits of IPL. Grow IPL Alliance membership. Establish standards for interoperable PDK.
Will the IPLs work with the Cadence environment?
Although Cadence has not yet chosen to join the IPL group, members have tested the proof-of-concept library with Cadence Virtuoso 6.1®.
How do I ensure my internal propriety tools work with the IPL?
Tools that support the latest OpenAccess specifications will work with IPLs.
How can I build an iPDK?
IPL Alliance member companies have access to all of the information and experts on how to build and validate iPDK’s. That is one of the benefits of joining IPL. IPL Alliance intends to make this knowledge more readily acceptable, but it has not had the resources to do this yet.
Who can I contact about the IPL collaboration?
You can send an email to info@iplnow.com or contact the following individuals:
Applied Wave Research (AWR)
Sherry Hess, VP Marketing
310-563-6325
sherry.hess@awrcorp.com
Ciranova
Michael Ma, VP Business Development
(408) 553-6084
michael@ciranova.com
SpringSoft
Richard Morse, Technical Marketing Manager
(408) 961-3739
rich_morse@springsoft.com
Synopsys
Ed Lechner, Director Marketing
(650) 584-5382
elechner@synopsys.com
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