Session 1B

1:00pm – 3:10pm

Quality and Interoperability of EDA Tools

Co-Chairs:

Tom Chen, Colorado State University

Lech Jozwiak, University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands

1:05pm

1B.1

Using the Open Library Architecture (OLA) Open Source API in Heterogeneous Design Flows (Invited), Daniel Moritz, LSI Logic, Inc., Bloomington, MN

1:30pm

1B.2

The OpenAccess Coalition -- The Case for an Industry Standard Information Model and API for IC Design Data and the Case for a Reference Implementation with Open, Industry-wide Access to its Source Code (Invited), Terry Blanchard, Rick Ferreri and Jim Wilmore, Hewlett-Packard Co.

1:55pm

1B.3

A Qualification Platform for Design Reuse, R Seepold, N.Martinez Madrid, A. Vorg, W. Rosenstiel¹, M. Radetzki², P. Neumann², and J. Haase², FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany, ¹University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany and ²sci-worx GmbH, Hannover, Germany

2:20pm

1B.4

Advancing Quality of EDA Software (Invited), Giora Ben-Yaacov, Pramod Suratkar, Marsha Holiday, and Karen Bartleson, Synopsys, Inc.

2:45pm

1B.5

Interoperability and Quality of New EDA Tools for Sequential Logic Synthesis, Aleksander Slusarczyk and Lech Jozwiak, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands