December 2015
Welcome to the December edition of the ENOVIA® Semiconductor Connection Community Newsletter. This newsletter will highlight some of the content on our online community, including information on our products and key features that you need to know, solution case studies, application tricks and tips, upcoming events, and general discussions on industry challenges and trends. By using this newsletter and our online community, you will be able to stay current and informed on how we can help improve your semiconductor product design experience.

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                                                               What's New Corner
An Easier Way to Reach Design Closure for SoC
It's really challenging to reach design closure of an SoC by meeting timing constraints, staying within the power budget, tracking progress, communicating within the team, minimizing the floorplan, maximizing manufacturability and eliminating hotspots. Most SoC design teams have EDA tools from multiple vendors, and yet no single vendor has figured out a simple way to accomplish all of these objectives in an automated tool flow. These multiple challenges can be addressed, and in fact one company in particular has an EDA tool that does work with multiple point tools to distill data and analytics into design information. That company is Dassault Systèmes, and their EDA tool is called ENOVIA Pinpoint. 

Exporting Notes From a ProjectSync DataBase
by Felix BENIAMINE (Published 9-25-2015)
A few weeks ago I mentioned I would provide a way to export notes from ProjectSync. Note that there is an "Out Of The Box" way to do it, which is thus officially supported, however the export format is not really "human readable" and editable.
 
How Can Big Data and EDA Tools Help?
Big data is a headline phrase that I see appear almost weekly now in my newsfeed, so it's probably time that I start paying more attention to the growing trend because it does impact how technology-driven, EDA tool flows are being used.
New Features for Semiconductor in 3DExperience Platform R2015X
by Felix BENIAMINE (Published 9-1-2015)
Last week I published a set of presentations on New Features in DesignSync R2015X, this week you will find presentations on a set of features added for the Semiconductor Industry to the 3DEXPERIENCE® Platform R2015X.

Five of those presentations focus on the "Developments", a feature that directly ties in DesignSync and, in summary, allows control of the roll-out of DesignSync versions, DesignSync Settings and DesignSync "Projects" and the tools required by those Projects, into the whole company, all from the "3DEXPERIENCE® platform".

 
ENOVIA Semiconductor Everywhere
ENOVIA Semiconductor Connection User Group Meeting, Velizy, France - Summary
Thank you to everyone for taking the time to join and participate in our Semiconductor User Group meeting at the Dassault Systèmes campus in Vélizy, France. We hope you found the time valuable and opposite of Moore's Law, INCREASED your knowledge and understanding of the ENOVIA offerings, capabilities and how they can help your business    succeed. Learn More
Interview with Michael Munsey, Director Semiconductor Strategy at Dassault Systèmes at the 2015 DAC 
                               
Silicon Valley ENOVIA Semiconductor User Group 2015 Meeting Summary
Thank you to our customers, partners and press for joining our Semiconductor User Group meeting this last week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. We know your time is your most precious commodity so we appreciate you taking some to join us in the meeting and conversations.  We also hope you found the time valuable and opposite of Moore's Law, INCREASED your knowledge and understanding of the ENOVIA offerings, capabilities and how they can help your business succeed.

As promised, the files from the day are listed out for your downloading and viewing.  Next week we will also upload some Pinpoint videos to our ENOVIA YouTube channel and when done will send out a link to those videos.

COMPASS Magazine #8
Participants in the Internet of Things (IoT) tend to focus on individual smart devices, but the Internet of Experiences aims higher, concentrating on what becomes possible when smart devices work together to create experiences. Earning a piece of the Internet of Experiences requires a higher level of strategic thinking - Experience Thinking - but the returns promise to be higher as well.

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Feedback Corner
A Systems Company Update from #52DAC by Daniel Payne Published 7-1-2015
On Sunday night at DAC we heard from Gary Smith that traditional EDA companies need to grow into new market segments in order to stay relevant, and that a systems-level approach to multi-disciplinary engineering was called for. I almost jumped out of my seat and said, "Hey, what about Dassault? 

Enterprise Design Management Comes of Age by Tom Simon Published 9-22-2015

The motivations for having a data and process management system in place for semiconductor design have existed for a long time. I am reluctant to admit it, but I remember early efforts to do this back in the 80's at Valid Logic