It provides a rich enough capability to support digital, analog, and mixed-signal design data.
OA makes extensive use of IC-specific data compression techniques to reduce the memory footprint, to address the size, capacity, and performance problems of previous DBs.
At the request of large customers such as Texas Instruments, Avanti released the MDX C-API in 1998.
The MAP-in C-API enables a non-Synopsys application to read and write Milkyway databases.
Unlike MDX, MAP-in does not permit the creation of a plugin that can be used from within Synopsys Milkyway tools.
MDE is a GUI application used to develop TCL and Scheme interfaces and diagnose problems.
Its major features include: Another significant design database is Falcon, from Mentor Graphics.
Like Milkyway is for Synopsys, Falcon seems to be a stable and mature platform for Mentor’s IC products.
Magma Design Automation’s database is not just a disk format with an API, but is an entire system built around their DB as a central data structure.