How to improve efficiency and avoid mistakes.
Over the last decade, design teams have encountered increased competition due to globalization (requiring the best available engineers irrespective of location), an exponential increase in design complexity, and shrinking market windows. This results in teams of engineers with different skill sets (for example analog, digital, MEMS, and RF), spread across multiple sites, managing complex flows, and sharing a large volume of constantly changing data. Unstructured design files with multiple copies and versions, along with associated verification results, cannot remain unmanaged if a design team wants to avoid mistakes and tape out successfully while meeting schedules.
In order to be efficient and to avoid mistakes, design teams need quick answers when something is wrong in the design or verification cycle of a project. Some of the questions they need to answer are:
Efficient collaboration is becoming an essential ingredient to meeting tight IC design schedules. In analog and mixed-signal (AMS) design, collaboration has many facets. Design tools are usually specific to roles and handoffs are numerous, especially when moving a design to a foundry. This often poses a challenge for companies hoping to keep design teams synchronized while ensuring that time-to-market windows are met.
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