What the Industry is Saying About OLA...

 "The level of co-operation among both ASIC and EDA vendors in support of the Open Library API has been outstanding and has resulted in significant progress in the development and acceptance of OLA as an industry standard. The Si2 sponsored DAC demo clearly demonstrates how far we have come in the last six months. IBM is committed to supporting this effort; we plan to have production-level OLA libraries available for our customers starting in 4Q98 for SA12E and SA27 technologies."
Bruce Beers
ASIC Council Chair
Director, ASIC Products
IBM Microelectronics

"LSI Logic is committed to supplying libraries in OLA format. OLA provides a consistent, efficient interface between design libraries and EDA tools. Designers will benefit from enhanced access to our leading-edge silicon technologies and more robust design flows. LSI will have production-level availability by year-end 1998."
Jeff Hilbert
Vice President, Methodology
LSI Logic Corporation

"We are working closely with the ASIC Council members and our EDA suppliers to make the Open Library API a reality. The broad adoption of OLA will bring numerous derivative benefits to our industry including more flexibility for our customers to bring newer and better OLA based design tools into their design flows as qualified libraries will be more readily available. We plan to have fully supported OLA based libraries available by the end of this year."
Mark Stibitz
Vice President, Integrated Systems Group
Lucent Technologies

"Motorola SPS fully supports the Open Library API (OLA). We intend to support OLA as our library representation in future design kit releases. We fully believe that OLA provides greater flexibility and accuracy over the current traditional disjoint library formats. The customer gets timing agreement among third party tools, EDA vendors minimize their interfaces to library data and ASIC vendors minimize the library views that they must support. We believe the ASIC Industry Council has taken a large step in solving the many problems that currently plague design environment library management by approving the OLA standard. We encourage EDA and other ASIC vendors to embrace this standard."
Mark McDermott
Director, Semiconductor Product Sector
System on a Chip Design Technology
Motorola, Inc.

"The interoperabilty of ASIC data depository and its efficiency for access from EDA tools are a key factor for deep-submicron designs. NEC Corporation joined the Open Library API (OLA) thrust initiated by ASIC Council, striving to prove OLA to be the most viable solution. At the end, NEC plans to make OLA based ASIC commercial libraries by the end of 1998.
Dr. Hitoshi Yoshizawa
Chief Manager, System ASIC Division
NEC Corporation


"VLSI fully supports the Open Library API (OLA) and is planning aggressive adoption and deployment of this new standard. The approach provides greater flexibility and efficiency in the deployment of libraries that can be accessed by multiple EDA tools. The API allows the industry to phase out text-based formats and begin deployment of compiled libraries that offer improved run-time efficiency for complex, deep-submicron circuits. Furthermore, the OLA's emphasis on multiple EDA tool is a perfect fit with VLSI's Design Integrator™, open, multivendor-multitool EDA environment."
Bob Payne
Vice President, Strategic Technology
VLSI Technology, Inc.

"Ambit is completely committed to OLA. Today, we are actively working with a number of ASIC Vendors to implement OLA support in our BuildGates multimillion-gate synthesis tool. We will be demonstrating OLA support in the Si2 booth at DAC, and will have a product available to support OLA libraries as they become available."
Prakash Bhalerao
Chief Executive Officer
Ambit Design Systems, Inc.

"The EDA community needs to stop using formats as competitive barriers and start using them to deliver complete, productive design flows. The establishement of interoperability standards is a critical first step in this process, and we are committed to moving the entire industry forward in this direction."
K.C. Murphy
Executive Vice President
Strategic Business Groups & Corporate Strategy
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. 

"Cadence is and will continue to be very proactive inhelping to implement interoperability, such as proposed by the OLA standards, especially in the areas of constraint, interconnect modeling, and IP exchange."
Ted Vecurevich
Chief Architect
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

"Our static timing analysis and market leading design-for-test tools will be ready for qualification with the ASIC companies production libraries by the end of the year. We are committed to driving OLA as a standard and look forward to broadening our relationship with our ASIC and EDA partners. In the near future, expect more news about our adoption of the OLA standard."
Walden C. Rhines
President and CEO
Mentor Graphics Corporation

"The ALF and OLA standards are a true win-win-win situation. Customers benefit in their ability to access a variety of intellectual property, ASIC vendors and IP providers create a single protected format for all, and EDA vendors can streamline their processes providing the best support to their customers. ACEO, a new innovative deep sub micron ASIC synthesis provider, will work closely with Si2 and ASIC vendors to support these pioneering standards which are seriously needed to meet the demanding challenges of deep sub-micron ASIC design."
Dr. Ray Wei
President and CEO
ACEO Technology

"Duet has been associated with the DCL standard for the past two and half years and has developed the first commercially available DCL based batch delay calculator DCLWizard which supports pre-layout as well as post-floorplan (PDEF) and post-layout (RSPF) delay calculation. Duet allows ASIC vendors a quick migration to this new standard through its Synopsys to DCL Migration Toolkit. Duet is also making available DCL views for its IntelliCell libraries starting with TSMC 0.25 micron technology. Duet is currently engaged in the development of an ALF analyzer which will be leveraged to build an ALF to DCL Translator as proposed in the OLA Strawman proposal."
Tom Quan
Vice President, Corporate Marketing
Duet Technologies, Inc.

General Information:
OLA Overview
OLA Q&A
Motivation for OLA
OLA Concept
History
Generations of Libraries
Qualifications of Libraries
Library Architecture
Ex. Methodology Flow
Vendor Adoption
Why OLA?
Industry Testimonials
OLA Work Group

Specifications:
1481-1999 Standard
OLA Specifications
IEEE 1481 Errata Sheets
Sample Code & Tool Kits

Datasheets:
OLA Datasheet
OLA White Paper
OLA Compiler
Pricing

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