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“We standardized
on gdzip & mezip for many years now with UMC and our mask shop
partners. With the volume of data that we have, the cost savings
and operation efficiency gains are tremendous. We are very happy
with the products and Solution-Soft’s first rate of technical
support.”
Peter Peng,
Deputy Division Director, mask Engineering & Service Division, UMC.
"We
use gdzip, mezip, and tapeout client everyday here at Xilinx. The
products have more than paid for by themselves in just one year
of production usage!"
Dr. Wolfgang J. Leitermann
Sr. Manager
of Tapeout Operations, Xilinx
"We have successfully
adopted gdzip and are happy with it's performance."
Eric Minami
CAD Manager, Marvell Technology Group
"Solution-Soft's compressor gdzip has saved us a considerable amount of storage space and backup time. Since our partners also use the compressors, we both benefit from shorter, more reliable and more secure ftp transfers."
Juergen Geissler, Tapeout Engineer
Major European semiconductor manufacturer
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GDSII
MEBES |
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Unix (Solaris,
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UMC
European chip maker
Xilinx
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Decompressor DLL
Add-on Module to Solution-Soft's gdzip and
mezip Provides Automatic
Decompression of
Semiconductor Design Files for All EDA Tools
With Solution-Soft's gdzip and mezip, semiconductor companies are able to compress their design files 2 to 10 times smaller than what gzip can do. The 2 to 10 times smaller file size means 2 to 10 times faster transfer, backup & restore time and similar savings on online and offline storage costs.
Expanding on the benefits provided by gdzip and mezip, Solution-Soft now offers a Dynamic Link Library (DLL) solution that seamlessly integrates with EDA tools that enables those tools to input and view our compressed files directly and leave them compressed on disks, without the need of a separate decompression step.
The DLL is currently in production use at customer sites and has been successfully verified with tools such as Anchor Semiconductor's NanoScope, Artwork Conversion's QckVu, Cadence/K2's QuickView, and Mentor Graphics' Calibre.
Customers who use the DLL in Conjunction with
gdzip will realize the following benefits:
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Saves users valuable time by eliminating a
separate decompression step .
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Disk space savings by decompressing files in
memory rather than writing to disk.
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Order
of magnitude disk I/O savings
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Reduced network traffic for NFS access
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Transparent application support, no tool
customization or modification.
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DLL + app read of compressed file approximately time equivalent to decompress + app read
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Full utilization of gdzip/mezip compressor
investment
How the DLL works:
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Almost all programs use basic read command to
open file/read some contents
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The DLL intercepts program calls to read
commands
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EDA applications are launched with our “wrapper”
to detect calls to read
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These tool make calls to read function - opens
GDSII file - loads data to buffer.
- Our DLL intercepts these read function calls
and replaces them with our that supports gdzip
Figure 1: Standard 'read' call used when files are not compressed
Figure 2: Secondary 'read' call is used when
files are compressed by gdzip
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File Formats Supported- Solution-Soft offers specialized
compressors for the GDSII file format and the MEBES file format
both used extensively by the semiconductor industry. Compressors
for other formats are in development. Please contact us if you would
like to inquire about a different file format.
Operating Systems Supported - Solaris
and Linux. If you need an operating system currently not supported,
please contact us.
Solution-Soft invites you to test-drive our specialized DLL
and compressor
today. Contact our Sales Department at 408-346-1424 or sales@solution-soft.com.
Companion product to improve the reliability of your file transfer
process - Eliminate time consuming retransmissions, corrupted
data, and partial transfers using Solution-Soft's SafeVelocity
File Transfer Product. SafeVelocity is specifically designed
to provide the highly reliable transfer of gigabyte-sized files
while increasing security. In addition to its numerous error checking
and auto-resume features, SafeVelocity is the only file transfer
product that knows the size of files to be transferred in advance
and automatically notifies users of transfer failures. |
