Increased demand for library accuracy and consistency across System-on-Chip and deep-submicron design flows has lead to development of a new open library architecture for EDA applications. OLA is a comprehensive Application Procedural Interface (API) that can be used by EDA tools for the determination of device/cell and interconnect characteristics of ICs. The motivation for OLA is that today there is no consistent standard for the modeling and calculation of timing and power as well as a common representation for function and properties. Formats in existence are either inadequate or proprietary. An added problem is that there are a variety of formats in use today. There is no format, which can represent IC library information for all parts of the design flow. Thus, an IC company has to generate several different library formats for the same technology family, for different tools to be used in the different parts of the design flows. These result in inconsistent timing and power computations for the designer as he/she operates different tools required in the design flow (ranging from simulation, synthesis, floorplan, place and route, and final timing and power analysis)

Bio

Jay Abraham is currently the Program Manager for the DPCS (Delay and Power Calculation System) and OLA (Open Library API) projects at Si2. He has over 10 years of ASIC design and methodology experience. He began his career as a microprocessor designer at IBM Poughkeepsie NY. This was followed by a position at Tandem Computers, Austin TX, as a verification and tools methodology engineer. He has a MS in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Boston University.