Solutions for Semiconductor Designers, Engineers and Software Developers
Perforce offers a unique, integrated solution for IP and data management — Perforce IPLM (formerly Helix IPLM) and Perforce P4 (formerly Helix Core). In fact, 9 out of 10 of the world’s largest semiconductor companies trust P4 and Perforce IPLM.
This combined solution makes IC and systems design more efficient, predictable, and higher quality, helping you meet time-to-market demands. Automated IP release flows, a centralized IP catalog, rapid workspace creation, and robust data management ensure that no matter where designers are located, they have full visibility into the IP available to them and can securely access the corresponding data.
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Perforce IPLM and P4
Perforce IPLM and Perforce Git Tools
Perforce IPLM + P4
Perforce IPLM and P4 are tightly integrated for seamless IP and data management.
What Perforce IPLM Does
Perforce IPLM is a comprehensive IP lifecycle management platform. It helps IC and systems design companies tame design complexity by providing a centralized system for design management across all types of projects and platforms.
Perforce IPLM helps global development teams:
- Eliminate project-centric design silos to improve collaboration.
- Find and reuse IP more effectively to avoid “reinventing the wheel.”
- Achieve end-to-end traceability to ensure regulatory compliance.
- Accelerate the release process with automated release flows.
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What P4 Core Does
Perforce P4 is a high-performance data management solution that supports global teams with storage, access, and management of design assets for analog, digital, infrastructure, and software development. It easily handles the millions of files that are common in EDA tools, along with the complex file relationships found in semiconductor designs.
Global development teams benefit from P4’s ability to securely manage all digital content in a single repository. With a robust caching and replication architecture, access for engineers and designers is seamless and nearly instantaneous — no matter where they are in the world.
P4 is free for up to 5 users and 20 workspaces.
How Perforce IPLM and P4 Work Together
Perforce IPLM integrates with P4 to ensure IPs and their associated metadata are secure and accessible to global, cross-functional teams.
For Digital Designs
With Perforce IPLM and P4, teams have complete control over the integration of both internal and external design elements, including libraries, new analog and digital designs, and standalone IP.
Perforce IPLM's integration with P4 supports IP management across multiple projects, multiple sites, and multiple generations of the IP’s evolution, enabling comprehensive traceability.
This provides complete visibility into the current status and usage of IP from requirements to release and streamlines design efforts with seamless coordination across teams and projects.
For Analog Designs
P4 and VersIC deliver a comprehensive, united, and reliable design data management experience. VersIC integrates with P4 from within the Cadence Virtuoso environment.
With P4 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.
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The Perforce Analog Starter Kit provides your small team with a solid foundation to scale. Don't wait to outgrow your tools; quickly and easily implement VersIC and P4 data management at a startup price.
Perforce 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 IC, SoC, and systems 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 P4 Git Connector and Perforce TeamHub. P4 Git Connector is an add-on for P4. 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.
Perforce TeamHub lets software developers using Git seamlessly collaborate with engineers on SoC projects. PerforceTeamHub is an optional add-on for P4 Git Connector 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 Perforce IPLM and Perforce Git Tools Work Together
You can use P4, P4 Git Connector, and Perforce 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 and its associated metadata can be saved in either P4 or P4 Git Connector.
Each user can have a workspace with the parts of the design that they have permission to access. Now all your design data can be managed from a single view.
This increases IP reuse and decreases friction. Users simply query Perforce IPLM to find the right version of the IP they need. It’s a secure and global single source of truth.
Questions About These Integrations?
All you have to do is ask. Contact us for more details on how Perforce IPLM, P4, and Perforce Git tools work together for more efficient, predictable, higher-quality semiconductor design.