Yotta's Intellectual Property ('IP') Identity Manager creates and maintains an archival view of the developing state of a company's IP. At any given moment, a company can invoke Yotta's technology and it return a cross-referenced, auditable, ledger of the information that had been used to build its developing IP portfolio. How far back Yotta's technology peers into the company's semiconductor process development to design to manufacturing workflow can be arbitrarily set. The company's Identity Manager uses its Smart Signature technology.
Today, it is impossible to create an auditable snapshot of a company's IP. Configuration and data management systems manage versions of files chronologically ordered on disk. They're heavily siloed / the unique instances of cell views (IP) within the files not cross-referenced back to their source and other dependent cell views. The files in this system representing a company's IP might not be correct / deprecated / untested / the wrong version. All diminish the value of a company's IP to others who, as examples, might want to purchase the company or set up a joint venture to develop next generation semiconductor technology.
The above diagram shows how Yotta takes this snapshot of the current state of its IP. The snapshot starts with a release of an PDK from the process development side of the semiconductor workflow to Fabless', System OEMs and 3rd Party IP Suppliers Library development teams. They're the team that creates an abstract view of (potentially manufacturable) standard cells that are released to IC block and chip-level design teams. Yotta creates a snapshot of these cell views at the leaf cell level. As they're put to use in Logic Design/Synthesis and Layout Integration, Yotta's technology keeps a ledger of what had been used and is in use at this level of detail. By tapeout, a company will have created a fully referential and archival view of a design's IP; including a full history of the cell views it had tried and last used to create the design.
This technology is invoked manually as a point tool. It peers into a company's PLM, configuration and data management systems and creates the snapshot. Yotta's technology does not divert or copy workflow data. It produces its snapshot on-the-fly. It stores only the signatures in Yotta's Master Database.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IDENTITY MANAGER*
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PLM / Configuration / Data Managment
SDK / Cell / Block / Chip
Tapeout
In-place Optimization
Layout Integration
Block-level Design
Floorpanning
Logic Design/Synthesis
System-level Design
Library Release Reporter
Library Development
Fabless
IDM
System OEM
3rd Party IP
Manufacturing
Process Development
PDK Release
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File-level layer
File-level non-functional
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Cell View Dependencies
PDK
. . . SPICE models, Design Rules, Circuit Extraction Parameters
Library Development
. . . SPICE, Liberty, LEF, GDSII, OASIS
Logic Design / Synthesis
. . . Verilog, VHDL, Liberty
Floor Planning
. . . Verilog, VHDL, DEF
Layout Integration
. . . Liberty, LEF, GDSII, OASIS, DEF
Tapeout
. . . GDSII, OASIS
"... The Company's technology plays a substantial role helping us isolate and fix problems before they become silicon issues ..."
Lisa Fisher
Engineering Manager
Texas Instruments
Smart Signature Generation
API
PLM / Configuration / Data Managment
PDK / Cell / Block / Chip
Master Signature Database
Smart Signatures
OAS = OASIS
GDS = GDSII
Workflow Auditor Point Tools
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* US Patents 9,122,825, 8,555,219, 8,266,571 and 7,685,545.
International Patents: China 200980129771.8, Japan 4768896, Korea 10-1580258, Israel 209907, European Patent 2310967.
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