Mower™ Milkyway-OpenAccess Translator
EDA tool interoperability no longer means tearing up a perfectly good database into a pile of text files, only to reassemble them in another database. Voom Mower replaces this Sisyphean task with direct in-memory data exchange between Synopsys Milkyway and Si2 / Cadence OpenAccess databases.
Mower is an OpenAccess component that translates Astro tech file, cell library, and design data to provide full interoperability between your OpenAccess-based EDA tools and the popular Synopsys Galaxy Design Platform.
Chip designers use Mower to entirely replace slow, complicated data transfer using LEF, DEF, GDSII, and Verilog files.
EDA vendors use Mower to shorten benchmarks and evaluations by reading all data directly from Milkyway with Mower. Then, write your result back to Milkyway for quick, indisputable verification in your customer’s own trusted production environment.
John McGehee of Voom has unmatched experience in every aspect of Milkyway and OpenAccess: multivendor flow, chip tapeouts, and EDA application programming. John applied this knowledge to make Mower a simple, accurate tool that works the way chip designers expect.
Key Benefits for EDA Vendors and CAD Departments
- Your software becomes a natural extension of the Synopsys Galaxy Design
Platform - Create complete OpenAccess libraries directly from your prospect’s Milkyway
evaluation or benchmark data - Sales prospects evaluate your results in the comfort of their own production
environment - Voom manages the ever-changing association between Milkyway and OpenAccess while you concentrate on your value proposition
Key Benefits for EDA Users
- Completely eliminates LEF, DEF and GDSII data interchange
- Emphasis on simplicity and feedback, with over 1000 informative messages in
concise, grammatical English to keep you informed - Complete documentation
Platforms and Versions
Mower 2.3 supports the most popular hardware platforms used for electronic design today.
Mower Platform Support Matrix
| Hardware Platform | Operating System | Milkyway Version | OpenAccess Version |
| AMD Opteron and Intel EMT-64 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 | 2007.03 | 2.2.6 |
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