CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
4 October 2004
Product News
OASIS Tooling, Inc. Releases Industry's First OpenAccess-to-Oasis Translator; Initial Version is Made Free to the Public until June 2005
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 database 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.
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