IC Manage Releases 2nd Annual Global Design Data Management Survey Results

LOS GATOS, Calif., June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- IC Manage, Inc. today announced the availability of its second annual "Global IC Design Data Management Report" covering the results of a 426 respondent survey of IC design professionals. IC Manage's Global Design Management report can be read at: http://icmanage.com/global-design-data-management-whitepaper-commercial-open-source-revision-control.html

The report covers the following findings from an industry-wide global survey run during April and May of 2010:

1. Commercial Design Management Implementation Plans in 2010
2. Design Management Impact on Project Deadlines and Tapeouts
3. Designers' Time Spent on Design Data Management Issues
4. Driving reasons to use a Design Data Management System
5. Most Important Features in an IC Design Bug Tracking System
6. Top Missing Design Functions from Open Source Revision Control
7. Summary and ROI Impact

"68 percent of respondents said the ability to track and fix bugs was their driving reason for deploying design data management," said Shiv Sikand, Vice President of Engineering at IC Manage. "With IC Manage GDP, bugs can be traced throughout the design and its derivatives so that fixes can be made easily. This is in contrast to other commercial systems where data is copied to create derivatives and the binding relationships are lost."

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 multidiscipline design assembly, derivative management, real-time worldwide design content delivery, and a secure and enterprise-wide 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.

SOURCE IC Manage, Inc.

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