Posted Jan 22, 2011, by Joe Davis
Almost 10 years ago, as the industry was starting to adopt model-based OPC and other resolution enhancing techniques on a large scale, the ITRS got out its looking glass and saw an “explosion” in the size of the files used to describe chip layouts. As a result, a group of industry companies collaborated to create a SEMI spec for the OASIS format for layout data. The format was officially … Read More
Tags:
diffusion of innovation,
GDSII,
Adoption,
RET,
tape-out,
OASIS,
OPC
Posted Oct 26, 2009, by Joe Davis
Recently, I attended the latest OpenAccess (OA) conference put on by Si2. Attendance this year seemed to be up from last year. Whether the increased attendance was due to the increased adoption that we’ve seen in the industry or the fact that the conference was free this year is unclear. However, it is crystal clear that OA is no longer just a promise, and that adoption has moved from the true early … Read More
Tags:
Calibre,
Constraints,
Adoption,
OpenAccess,
Interfaces,
Interoperability
