[June 09, 2015] |
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IC Manage Announces BIG DATA Product: Envision Real-Time Design & IP Progress Analytics
IC Manage today announced its Big Data Predictive Analytics tool
Envision, which provides real-time
design progress analytics to allow project leaders, engineering
managers, and integration leads to predict and manage their projects -
keeping them on target. Envision also achieves IP Theft Prevention, to
protect a company's design IP from insider threats.
Design & IP Progress Analytics
Managing design and verification projects to schedule is the top
priority for design teams. As the design progresses, strategic resource
allocation decisions can make an enormous impact on whether schedules
are met.
Envision offers the following design & IP progress analytics:
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Real-time Design Progress analytics
You
can do schedule and resource management by capturing the engineering
effort for a design module, based on the time delta between designer
check out and check in, accessing activity down to the file level.
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SoC/Chip Real-Time IP Progress
Envision
minimizes the burden of asking team members and management to spend
scarce project and design time compiling status reports. Integration
and assembly leads can view a real-time heat map of detailed progress
reports for each IP across all specified tools. You can define
automatic threshold levels for each tool to quantify the progress,
such as error count, then flexibly modify your threshold.
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Tool Analytics for Resource Optimization
Envision
continuously mines the millions of file changes that occur during a
complex SoC project and effectively utilizes the design tool log files
that are typically discarded today. It then uses Big Data analytics to
filter and track specific aspects of various IPs and projects,
automatically extrapolating to determine expected project delays
according to a team or IP group. This tool drilldown allows you to
make improved decisions on where to focus additional engineering,
compute or license resources.
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Tape-Out Prediction
Project
leads that have completed at last one project with IC Manage GDP can
begin to take advantage of tapeout prediction analytics. As your first
teams fully complete particular tasks (e.g. DRC) for your current
design, you can uncover the relative resources (person-hours) required
and compare it with your prior design.
These metrics can be
categorized by design task, type or complexity so that realistic
correlation can be achieved for active projects. Depending on the rate
of resource usage vs expectations, you can make resource adjustments
such as to compensate for delays and bring your project back on
schedule.
Built-in Data Anonymization Option
Envision can anonymize your data for separation of analytics data from
individual users, to prevent data abuse and maintain compliance with
local laws and regulations regarding tracking employees.
IP Theft Prevention
Insider threats to your company's design IP are insidious; IP thefts
often go unnoticed, or are not caught until after the fact. Envision
deploys four critical technologies to protect your IP
against insider theft.
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Collects all your relevant data
You
must track all your data to be able to detect suspicious activity.
Envision collects and logs exactly who accesses what data, because it
works with IC Manage GDP design and IP management system, where all
design data is accessed over the TCP connection. This user activity is
directly tied to the design data and changes, with timestamps.
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Stores your data securely
When
data is simply synced from a repository, there is risk of it being
read, stolen and copied to other directories, then hidden. Envision
uses IC Manage Views virtual storage management, so that all file data
is automatically logged at the server. Further, because the data is
logged at the server, end point software monitoring tools, which can
be potential attack points running on every node, are not required.
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Assigns Granular Data Access Permissions
With
traditional systems, the security plane is often embedded in your
metadata. So either complex file access attributes must be maintained,
or users are given access to a broader set of data than necessary.
Envision
works with IC Manage Views and allows you to assign granular
permissions by cluster, so that design team members only see & modify
their own authorized subspace. For example, an IP owner only sees his
IP, not the rest of design. A designer only sees his design module,
and the RTL for the various IP he is incorporating in it.
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Applies Threat Prevention Big Data Analytics
With
many companies having thousands of users with so much activity,
generating billions of records daily, you usually cannot identify IP
theft until after the damage has occurred.
Envision uses
Big Data Analytics to mine and filter through billions of records to
immediately flag the risky behavior such as an engineer starting to
copy project trees that he is not submitting code to or that are a
known inactive project. Because this analysis is happening in
real-time, you can set rules to stop the transaction and instantly
revoke access, thus actually preventing the theft.
About IC Manage
IC Manage provides high performance design data and IP management
solutions for companies to efficiently complete designs across their
global enterprises. Design teams using IC Manage improve product
quality, designer productivity, and global collaboration, while
maximizing their IP reuse. IC Manage customers include Altera (News - Alert), AMD,
Broadcom, CSR, Cypress, Entropic, Juniper, Maxim, Mediatek, NVIDIA,
Rambus, Samsung, Sandisk, Xilinx and other top semiconductor and systems
companies. IC Manage is headquartered at 2105 South Bascom Ave., Suite
120, Campbell, CA (News - Alert). For more information visit us at www.icmanage.com.
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