For Release Monday November 13, 2000
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SYNCHRONICITY ENHANCES IP GEAR TO STREAMLINE
SUPPLY-SIDE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
New Version of Leading Design Reuse System Enhanced
For Superior Collaboration with Trading Partners
San Jose, CA - November 13, 2000 - Synchronicity, Inc. today introduced IP
Gear version 1.2, which has been enhanced to manage supply-side
Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP) transactions. With this new
release, SIP suppliers achieve operational excellence through
state-of-the-art SIP publication, distribution, support and other features
that connect the development supply chain. Design engineers who receive SIP
deliverables benefit from improved accuracy and 'real-time' updates. Key
features of IP Gear 1.2 are being used in the VCX announced October 23 and
in the ARM IP Delivery and Support Systems announced this week.
"Last month Hitachi and Toshiba added themselves to the long list of large
semiconductor companies using IP Gear for internal design reuse. The ARM
and VCX announcements this month show that IP Gear is also the leading
business-to-business solution for managing design data," said Dennis
Harmon, CEO of Synchronicity. "We have learned a lot about design reuse
and distribution on the way to becoming the market leader and IP Gear 1.2
makes the latest knowledge and experience available to all our customers."
IP Gear 1.2 includes five major new features to help connect the
development supply chain:
1) Enhanced Deliverables Management: A new graphical "SIP Bundle Editor"
eases grouping and sharing of SIP deliverables. Deliverables can now be
assigned to one or more SIP components, to provide an effective way of
managing deliverables among the SIP components (i.e. which files make up a
large IP core).
2) IP Audit Trail Support: The "genealogy" of a SIP component or
deliverable can automatically be traced back to engineering's design
management system. SIP component data can be versioned and managed during
the SIP development and publishing cycle.
3) Integration of Efficient IP Data Management: The commercial-grade design
management system, Synchronicity's DesignSync, is now more tightly
integrated with IP Gear. It minimizes or eliminates redundant data storage
of SIP deliverables. This efficient storage is important to avoid
duplication of data when "released" iterations of the deliverables are
modified, enhanced, and/or re- published.
4) Consumer Change Notification: IP Consumers can subscribe for automatic
notification of changes that affect them like new or modified components,
deliverables, Knowledge Base entries, IP news etc.
5) Fast, Easy User Interface customization: Support for Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS) provides a simple method for the IP Gear administrator to
customize the appearance of the IP Gear Catalog's user interface.
Pricing and Availability
Though some customers like ARM and VCX already using key components of IP
Gear 1.2, it will be available to all in Q1 2001. Pricing starts at
$500,000 with actual cost and configuration depending upon architecture and
customer requirements. IP Gear server software runs on Solaris and HPUX
and all that is needed on the client side is a recent Netscape or Internet
Explorer browser.
About Synchronicity
Synchronicity supplies Internet-based enterprise & business-to-business
collaboration solutions to manage the supply chain feeding the development
of complex electronic products. Synchronicity's enterprise applications,
DesignSync"and ProjectSync", enhance design productivity by enabling
effective data management, parallel development techniques and proactive
team communication within the design team, across the enterprise and
between businesses. Synchronicity's IP Gear family of application servers
enables organizations to create centralized resource web sites that enhance
visibility, support complex decision processes, and manage the
relationships and communication between the members of the development
supply chain. Headquartered in Marlboro, MA, (508) 485-4122, Synchronicity
has offices worldwide, please see www.synchronicity.com.
The Synchronicity logo, DesignSync and ProjectSync are registered
trademarks and IP Gear is a trademark of Synchronicity, Inc. of Marlboro,
MA. All other trademarks are the property of their owners.
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