IC Manage Announces Global Design Data Management for Synopsys' Galaxy Custom Designer Solution

Seamless Integration of Global Design Platform and Galaxy Custom Designer

Los Gatos, Calif. – June 10, 2010 – IC Manage, Inc., the leading provider of project and design data management solutions for the electronics industry, today announced the integration of Synopsys’ Galaxy Custom Designer® solution and IC Manage Global Design Platform™ (GDP). Engineers can now efficiently manage and share Custom Designer’s design data across multiple design sites.

The integration of GDP and Galaxy Custom Designer provides advanced project and design data management capabilities within Custom Designer’s familiar user interface, giving design teams version control, configuration and derivative management, as well as design data hand-offs and bug tracking. Designers now have transparent access to complete version and icon-based state notification, fully hierarchical library and cell views, property file auto-check-in/check-out and revision history, resulting in reduced designer overhead and maximum productivity.

“The integration of the IC Manage GDP with Custom Designer further expands the ecosystem of our custom implementation solution and provides more tool choices for our customers,” said Bijan Kiani, vice president of Product Marketing at Synopsys. “The openness of Custom Designer is key to driving the growing ecosystem of best-in-class tools that better serves the needs of our mutual customers.”

“To achieve maximum design team productivity, customers have long demanded our scalable, reliable, and high-performance design data management capabilities seamlessly integrated into all of their IC design tools and methodology flows,” said Shiv Sikand, VP of Engineering for IC Manage. “The IC Manage GDP integration with the Galaxy Custom Designer solution will enable efficient reuse and assembly of design data across local and geographically dispersed design teams.”

For more information on the IC Manage GDP integration with Synopsys Galaxy Custom Designer, please visit http://icmanage.com/Design-Data-Management-Synopsys-Custom-Designer.html

About IC Manage Global Design Platform

IC Manage Global Design Platform (ICM GDP) is a next-generation design data management system that efficiently manages, locates and assembles components and delivers reuse across the enterprise. It is the first hardware/firmware/software design data management solution to offer a multidiscipline design assembly, derivative management, real-time worldwide design content delivery, and now enterprise-wide and secure multi-company collaborative design project management environment.

About IC Manage

IC Manage, Inc. provides next generation design management solutions for IC design, enabling companies to efficiently and reliably manage single and multi-site design efforts. IC Manage's Global Design Platform (GDP) – utilizing the Perforce engine – is the first solution to offer design assembly, derivative management and content delivery in addition to scalable, ultra performance revision control, release and configuration management. IC Manage offers IT infrastructure integration for hot backup, high availability and disaster recovery for true 24x7 enterprise availability. IC Manage is headquartered at Suite 100, 15729 Los Gatos Blvd, Los Gatos, CA 95032. For more information, visit us at www.icmanage.com.