SOS Enterprise Edition

Enterprise Edition extends the SOS Design Data Collaboration Platform to address the requirements of large, globally distributed enterprises.

It includes the following three major technology and service components:

Visual Design Diff (VDD)

ClioSoft’s Visual Design Diff (VDD) gives users the power to quickly compare two versions of a schematic or layout by graphically highlighting the differences directly in the design editor.

VDD comes integrated with ClioSoft’s design management system but can also be deployed standalone with any other design management system or even if no design management system is being used. VDD can highlight the difference between two versions of the same cell-view or between any two cell-views of the same type.

Please click here for more information on VDD.

Universal Data Management Adaptor (UDMA)

Design data generated by EDA tools such as schematic or layout editors are varied and complex. It is infeasible for design engineers to makes sense of the tool generated design files to determine:

Which files should be managed
Which files should not be managed
Which files belong together as a set to create a design object

To address this problem DM vendors offer custom data management adaptors for popular IC flows such as Cadence Virtuoso. However, there are a large number of design tools which have no support for data management.

UDMA is a unique rule-based technology that allows the SOS administrator to quickly and easily define the relationship between design objects and the data files produced by the design tool. Using the specified UDMA rules, SOS automatically recognizes and packages co-managed file sets into user-recognizable composite design objects. This SOS technology allows enterprises to manage and version control design data from practically any design tool, at abstraction levels that designer use (libraries and cells) while eliminating the tedium of sorting through a complex set of tool-generated files.

UDMA "future proofs" a design team’s data management needs by providing an easily configurable solution for any design tools that the team may adopt.

Given below are examples of how UDMA can be used to manage design data from several different tools:

Hierarchical Reference and Reuse Engine

A project can reference and reuse design objects or entire design libraries in other projects across the corporate WAN. Design data management of large projects can be simplified by partitioning into smaller, independently managed sub-projects at local or remote sites. Design intellectual property (IP) can be re-used across the enterprise thereby improving productivity and reducing time to market.

Instant Enterprise Support

Minimizes downtime through instant, live, virtual onsite support delivered using WebEx remote support service. ClioSoft’s "Instant Support" routes the user to the technical support agent best qualified to help with the user’s specific issues and initiates a live web and phone support session. The agent can demonstrate functions to the user or view the user’s computer to quickly find and fix any issues.