Missed schedule deadlines, design respins and waivers, and the high cost of NPI all affect semiconductors profitability.  The inability to synchronize resources, effectively handoff data, end easily ensure that all hardware and software design remain in sync cause design teams to waste precious resources fixing preventable issues and ensuring data integrity between hand offs. 

Dassault Systèmes’ DesignSync targets these inefficiencies by intelligently sharing hierarchical design data to facilitate collaboration among members of globally dispersed design teams. 

SoC Design closure requires close collaboration between all members of the design team.  Unfortunately, RTL designers and physical design team waste precious time trying to communicate across geographic boundaries with design representations that are unfamiliar to each other.  Expensive physical design tools are often tied up in a debugging cycle as opposed to being used for design. 

Dassault Systèmes’ Pinpoint allows designers to gain “Instant ON” access to the latest design data to make informed design decisions, without the need to invoke expensive design tools and wait for the latest version of a design to load.

Missed or out of sync requirements are one of the most common reasons for a deice respin.  But how do you know that a design has met all requirements or that those requirements have not changed?     Can you guarantee that from system level verification all the way through to device test data, that the product is meeting all of the latest requirements? 

With Dassault Systèmes’ Requirements Driven Verification, designers can manage complex data relationships, integrate operational silos, and meet time to market deadlines with a verification and validation data management platform that allows for end-to-end traceability from product definition to end product configuration.

In order to meet shortened market windows, semiconductor companies have adopted an IP integration methodology.  The high cost of Semiconductor NPI can be traced to inefficient IP management within a company such as duplication of IP, inefficiencies in identifying IP, poor governance around making IP reusable. 

With Dassault Systèmes’ Enterprise IP Management, design teams can meet accelerated customer demand for the latest generation technology through IP reuse. Effectively manage and reuse internally produced and externally acquired design data. Understand where it is used, and track issues and defects through multiple projects while also protecting that IP from inappropriate use.