configuration management founded 2002 headquarters campbell california key people ceo dean drako vp shiv sikand slogan industrial strength design management website www.icmanage.com ic manage is a company that provides design data management software to semiconductor companies for managing their ic design databases between design teams . ic manage also provides enterprise software for large scale perforce customers . ic manage provides a structured ic design workflow for analog electronics and digital electronics . 1 contents 1 history 2 products 3 customer applications 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit in 2004 ic manage introduced the beta version of its commercial design data management software system that provided version control configuration management and software bug tracking . the design management system included a graphical cadence design framework user interface and worked with both the cadence and the openaccess databases . it tracked only modified files and stored metadata about revisions and configurations in a relational database separate from the design data . 2 in 2007 ic manage announced its global design platform gdp design data management system . gdp had bi directional component tracking for ic revisions and derivatives ; mixing match and reuse of components and semiconductor intellectual property cores across local and remote design sites ; defect tracking and workspace synchronization to the same state when a designer reported fixed or verified a software bug . 3 in 2007 nvidia manufactured over 100 chips that used ic manage software during design . 4 in 2009 ic manage content management software was mentioned as a technology driver enabling semiconductor companies to do design work across local and remote geographic locations as part of a significant trend toward outsourcing design work to other countries . ic manage s software creates a workspace that abstracts the design data from the underlying directory organization . 5 in 2011 deepchip.com ranked ic manage ip central ip pro as the 1 item to see at the design automation conference . 6 from 2010 through 2014 ic manage has been included in the annual what to see at dac list by the garysmith eda analyst firm . in 2010 for enterprise tools 7 in 2011 for design management 8 in 2012 and 2013 for design debug 9 10 and in 2014 for enterprise tools . 11 in 2014 ic manage was selected as one of deloitte fast 500 a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology media telecommunications life sciences and clean technology companies in north america . ic manage grew 178 percent during the 4 year period from 2008 to 2012 . 12 products edit global design platform gdp in april 2007 ic manage announced its global design platform gdp design data management system . 13 ip central ip pro in june 2011 the company introduced its ip central platform targeted to design and verification teams for ip reuse including publishing sharing and integration and revisions of internal and third party ip and ip bug dependency tracing . 14 ic manage views in may 2012 the company announced its ic manage views workspace acceleration software a version aware file system which presents complete virtual workspace views and transfers data on demand to a local file cache . 15 customer applications edit broadcom amd and nvidia on ip reuse . at the 2012 design automation conference three ic manage customers presented on best practices and use of ic manage for design ip reuse including top down mandates for frequent check ins following a branching methodology putting ip into project libraries self contained ip blocks within a library and specification driven ip design . 16 altera cambridge silicon radio and xilinx on ip based design and verification reuse . at design automation conference 2013 three ic manage customers discussed design and verification approaches utilizing ic manage using one data repository for all designs reusing simulation testbenches linking the bug tracking system and data management system making verification information part of the ip designing by high level block function rather than chips minimizing ip modifications and restricting ip access . 17 see also edit list of revision control software references edit edn ic manage announces new version of design management software eetimes design management tools get lift eetimes ic design management goes global deepchip published user reports on ic manage eetimes as design goes global tools get more critical deepchip must see list for dac 2011 garysmitheda 1 what to see at dac 2010 garysmitheda 2 what to see at dac 2011 garysmitheda 3 what to see at dac 2012 garysmitheda 4 what to see at dac 2013 garysmitheda 5 what to see at dac 2014 deloitte 6 technology fast 500 2013 ranking eetimes ic design management goes global soccentral ic manage announces ip central to maximize ip reuse edn asia ic manage unleashes storage acceleration software dac panel 2012 conference video & transcripts dac panel 2012 conference video & transcripts external links edit ic manage inc. website ic manage gdp tutorial retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ic manage & oldid 720290412 categories proprietary version control systems navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa ol italiano portugu s edit links this page was last modified on 14 may 2016 at 22 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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