10.8 From IP to EDA Tools Enterprise Management: What is so special?

Date: Thursday 12 March 2015
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Location / Room: Salle Lesdiguières

Moderator:
Gabrièle Saucier, Design and Reuse, FR

Panelists:
Huy-Nam Nguyen, Bull S.A.S., FR
Philippe Quinio, STMicroelectronics International, CH

IPs are today part of any Electronic Systems and it is more and more urgent to trace, monitor and more generally "manage" IPs in systems or products. The key feature of such a management is its multidisciplinary facet implying multiple management views and actors (IP Engineering, IP Sourcing, IP Procurement..).

Today an IP management platform needs to be a next generation web application hosted on an intranet server and receiving data from multiple sources (Design DB, IP Delivery DB, Product Shipment DB, Legal and Financial reports..). It aims at providing a reliable follow up to all of these departments such as IP Entry, IP Delivery, IP tracing in products… It delivers results (fee and royalty calculation for instance) as well as expertise for decision making (planning the future in terms of IP expenses, cost per product..).

The introductory talk will show how such a portal can be configured to fulfill the needs of an enterprise and what are the required "special" technical  features missing in management tools presently available on the market.

Specific views namely Engineering view and Legal aspects will be commented by 2 speakers from companies veteran in IP management.

It will also be demonstrated that an amazing and straightforward extension concerns EDA Tool license management and optimization including integrated license monitoring. Such an extension aims at optimizing the tool cost for large enterprises using extensively and at a large scale a variety of development tools and gives an unique corporate global view on IP and Tools.