OASIS Tooling, Inc. Releases Industry's First
OpenAccess-to-Oasis Translator
OASIS Tooling, Inc. introduced the Mosaic Translator,
the first OpenAccess-to-OASIS translator in
the industry. Mosaic Translator, which is available
for free until June 2005, converts design data
into mask layout data far more efficiently than
GDSII.
"The Mosaic Translator is the first step
toward using native OASIS with OpenAccess for
mask data preparation, mask pattern generation
and mask defect detection systems," said
Tom Grebinski, CEO and president of OASIS Tooling.
People who have adopted OpenAccess now have
a direct path to mask manufacturing. "It
is also the first bidirectional tool providing
communication between manufacturing and design,
and supports the eventual establishment of a
universal data model."
OASIS is an advanced, IC-to-mask layout data
transformation standard owned and maintained
by SEMI. OASIS supplants the GDSII stream as
the data output to the mask shops from IC design.
OpenAccess is a community effort to provide
true interoperability, not just data exchange,
among IC design tools through an open standard
data API and reference atabase supporting that
API for IC design. The OpenAccess Coalition
is a neutral organization of industry leaders
that are leading this effort operating under
Si2 bylaws. The Mosaic Translator is available
at the OASIS Tooling website ( http://www.oasistooling.com/
) with the only condition that users sign and
abide by a license agreement that expires June
1, 2005.
