Solutions for Designers, Engineers and Software Developers
Perforce offers a unique solution for IP and data management — Methodics IPLM and Helix Core.
In fact, 9 out of 10 of the world’s largest semiconductor companies trust Helix Core and Methodics IPLM.
This combined solution makes designing more efficient, predictable, and higher quality, helping you meet time-to-market demands. Advanced IP release flows, cataloging, metadata, and workspace management ensure that no matter where designers are located, they have full visibility into the IP available to them and can easily access the corresponding data.
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Methodics IPLM and Helix Core
Methodics IPLM and Helix Core are tightly integrated.
What Methodics IPLM Does
Methodics IPLM is a comprehensive IP lifecycle management (IPLM) platform. It enables companies of all sizes to have complete control over the design and integration of both internal and external design elements. This includes libraries, new analog and digital design, and standalone IP.
Global development teams benefit from Methodics IPLM’s ability to manage IP, ensuring teams can share and reuse IP. Methodics IPLM delivers the transparency and control needed to streamline collaboration around the world.
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What Helix Core Does
Helix Core is a high-performance version control system (VCS) that can be used for data management. It supports global teams with storage, access, and management of design assets for analog, digital, infrastructure, and software development.
Global development teams benefit from Helix Core’s ability to securely manage all digital content — even large files — in a single repository. With a robust caching and replication architecture, access for engineers and designers is seamless and instantaneous — no matter where they are in the world.
Helix Core is free for up to 5 users and 20 workspaces.
How Methodics IPLM and Helix Core Work Together
Methodics' clients for analog and digital designers integrate natively with Helix Core, making DM seamless to users. This ensures that data is safe and available everywhere you need it.
For Digital Designs
Teams have complete control over the design and integration of both internal and external design elements, including libraries, new analog and digital designs, and standalone IPs.
Methodics IPLM integration with Helix Core supports advanced tracking and management across multiple projects, multiple sites, and multiple generations of the IP’s evolution and streamlining collaboration.
This gives teams complete visibility into the state and usage of IP from the moment it enters the system until an SoC is delivered.
Methodics IPLM manages the complex file relationships found in semiconductor designs. Helix Core handles the large binary files and millions of files that are common in EDA tools. It brings robust, federated multisite data management with complete disaster recovery capabilities.
For Analog Designs
Helix Core and VersIC deliver a comprehensive, united, and reliable design data management experience. VersIC integrates with Helix Core from within the Cadence Virtuoso environment.
With Helix Core and VersIC, a truly collaborative design environment across global design locations is possible.
Cadence libraries, Verilog, scripts, software, docs, and other design assets can be controlled, managed, versioned, and released via one platform.
Methodics IPLM and Perforce Git Tools
Git is enormously popular, and software developers like its familiar interface. But Git is designed to control text files, not the binary files that are part of your SoC designs.
Because Git lets users keep files on their individual workstations, it’s not great for companies concerned with compliance and security. Plus, traceability of changes is not perfect. Perforce Git tools solve this challenge.
What Are the Perforce Git Tools?
Perforce Git tools include Helix4Git and Helix TeamHub.
Helix4Git is an add-on for Helix Core. It provides management of Git repos. Even better, it’s easy to implement without changing your existing toolset. It can be added to any Git environment to improve performance and seamlessly scale to support growing, global Git teams.
Helix TeamHub lets software developers using Git seamlessly collaborate with engineers on SoC projects. Helix TeamHub is an optional add-on for Helix4Git that provides code hosting and collaboration, with self-service project administration and integration with enterprise AD/LDAP. It’s self-hosted in your own private cloud or in a data center – providing better security for your code.
In addition to serving the needs of internal software teams, it is an ideal way for external software teams (e.g., contractors or consultants) to be part of your DM infrastructure — while controlling and securing their access to your assets.
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How Methodics IPLM and Perforce Git Tools Work Together
You can use Helix Core, Helix4Git, and Methodics IPLM together as a seamless data management solution. This provides a single source of truth for your whole project. With this combination, each individual IP in a design can be saved in either Helix Core or Helix4Git.
Each user can have a workspace with the parts of the design that they are permissioned to access. Now all your SOC data can be managed from a single view.
This increases reuse and decreases friction. Users simply query Methodics IPLM to find the new versions of any IP that they need. It’s a secure, performant, global single source of truth.