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FlowMaker™ Design Flow Management Tool
 

Overview
Market demand for more product functions leads to increasingly complex design techniques and increased design iteration. This also makes companies to expand their investments to design source. Therefore applying appropriate design methodology to make standard design management is becoming new demand in design industry. Based on Perl/C-shell, FlowMaker™ employs design methodology modal for product technology. Through establishing a dependency graphic among design operation, design data and design tool, it enables flow modeling, flow construction, flow execution and test management in integrative working environment.

FlowMaker™ records such design methodologies and knowledge experiences as EDA/CAD tool execution flow, engineering data exchange flow and etc, becoming most important component of company's knowledge achievements.

Value:
• Design methodology modeling technique enables knowledge share and reuse;
• Reducing design iteration and source costs considering design source end data;
• Automatic and standard design process, reducing design cycles, raising product quality;
• Quickly adaptation to design technique implantation update and manufacturing technique change.

Features

Flow-Script-Based Methodology Construction Technology
  By applying Perl/C-shell, FlowMaker™ realizes design methodology modeling and constructs a complete design operation data chain from SPEC definition, system modeling, logic design, logic verification, physical realization, physical verification until signoff.

In order to deal with flow management for complex design, FlowMaker™ provides hierarchical flow modeling. User plans multiple design operation macro-cell according to product design phases or milestones. Macro-cell flows respectively define EDA/CAD operation and data exchange flow in each design phase; top-level flow script is a flow modeling for the whole project, enabling flow integration among macro-cells by using each milestone macro cell script.

Integrated Management of Process, Data and Source
  Through built-in application of data configuration management tool (DataConfig™ or CVS, ClearCase), FlowMaker™ records process data onto version data library. With the help of OptimRes™ resource management tool, it further integrates EDA/CAD resource request and design process management, providing design computing with parallel processing.

Design Experience Knowledge Turned to Enterprise IP
  Design methodology model puts design experience quantitive and turns it into engineering knowledge. Following the lead of excellent design methodology, engineers will quickly become familiar with design methods and EDA/CAD techniques required by projects, reducing design iteration caused by lack of design experience and helping to form professional design team.

Manual and Automatic Execution of Design Flow
 

For GUI's design flow, FlowMaker™ can automatically reminds each design process of needed operation like data import, design tool operation, design output, version data check-in/out, signoff and operation status record, leading engineers to finish required operations using standard design methods. For command-based design flow, FlowMaker™ extracts EDA source in order, automatically execute each operation of flow definition.





Parallel Processing Engine Increases Computing Efficiency
 

For design flow composed of multiple sub-design, FlowMaker™ is able to activate built-in analysis engine. Searching special needs for parallel computing. By applying OptimRes™ Grid computing function, with enough design source (EDA license and CPU), FlowMaker™ will distribute design computing to dispersed computing grids and perform computing task in parallel on sub-design, reducing design operation time.

Operating Environment
  Hardware
  Network   Supporting TCP/IP company Intranet bandwidth 10Mbps min.
  100Mbps recommended
  Database Server   1G RAM minimum 40G hard disk space minimum
  Version Server   1G RAM minimum 200G hard disk space minimum
  Client   512M RAM minimum 10G hard disk space minimum
  Software
  Database   Oracle 9i or higher
  J2RE   Version 1.4.2 or higher
  Other Software   LDAP service, fedora-ds recommended
  Server   Supporting RH Linux 7.3 or higher, Solaris 8 or higher
  Client   supporting Windows 2000 or higher, RH Linux 7.3 or higher
  Solaris 8 or higher
 
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