CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
3 August 2004
Implementation Investments
IPextreme Adopts Synchronicity Software to Facilitate Customer Intimacy and Productivity through Efficient IP Distribution and Support
IPextreme is adopting the Synchronicity® Publisher Suite solution for the distribution and support of their high quality IP. IPextreme is helping customers get new chips to market faster and at lower cost by applying "Extreme Programming," a disciplined approach to design and programming, to the development of IP. The Publisher Suite will directly support key Extreme Programming tenets such as close customer involvement, frequent releases, whole team ownership and continuous integration of the entire design.
The Publisher Suite is widely used for design reuse and the distribution and support of IP. The Publisher Suite contains the IP GearT Catalog to store and present reusable designs and the IP Gear Helpdesk and Knowledge base as a rich support environment. This infrastructure will raise the productivity and quality of experience for IPextreme's customers around the globe, by enabling them to find, evaluate and securely download blocks of already complete and proven designs through any web browser. By easing and supporting such transactions, the Publisher Suite raises intimacy with, and satisfaction of, prominent IPextreme customers such as Infineon.
Brad Hafer, Synchronicity vice-president of marketing and business development, noted, "IPextreme looks set to shake-up semiconductor development by revolutionizing the design, packaging and distribution of IP, and we are pleased that their experienced team selected our Publisher Suite as the best customer interface solution. They are joining many other significant electronics companies in the adoption of our IP lifecycle management solutions and confirming that we are the de facto standard for moving and managing designs in and between companies."
Synchronicity enables IC, embedded software and system developers to get from concept to product to revenue more quickly. Their Developer and Publisher Suites provide value by tracking project status, capturing design intent, managing engineering data and coordinating IP reuse, distribution and support. Over 120 development organizations, including 13 of the top 15 semiconductor companies, use Synchronicity software to connect and manage their design chain; boosting collaboration within project teams, across the enterprise and between businesses. Synchronicity has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by MatrixOne ( http://www.matrixone.com/ ) in a transaction which is expected to close in early August 2004. Both companies are headquartered in Massachusetts. For more information: http://www.synchronicity.com
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