Startup offers free OpenAccess-to-OASIS
Translator
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Startup OASIS Tooling
Inc. will offer its new OpenAccess-to-OASIS
bidirectional translator to customers until
June 2005.
Tom Grebinski, who led Semiconductor Equipment
and Materials International's OASIS effort —
to devise a more efficient layout data transfer
format than GDS-II — counts his new company
as the first to offer a complete OpenAccess-to-OASIS
bidirectional translator.
OASIS boasts a data footprint that is much smaller
than GDS-II and facilitates the transfer of
data between IC layout and mask making.
The company's Mosaic Translator links OASIS
to Si2's OpenAccess, allowing layout teams and
mask makers to rapidly transfer data and collaborate
on fixes.
Mosaic Translator, which is available at the
OASIS Tooling Web site, includes fully implemented
OASIS translators, readers/writers, encoders/decoders,
regression and non-regression tests cases, native
OASIS 2- and 3-D viewers along with proposed
implementation pathways for companies with varied
interests.
Grebinski said users downloading the Mosaic
Translator are required to sign a no-fee license
agreement that expires June 1, 2005.
Grebinski offers training on OASIS and use of
Mosaic Translator.
