Engineering Data Management

Design Data and IP Management is the practice of organizing, versioning, and securing semiconductor design assets, such as schematics, layouts, PDKs, and IP blocks, so engineering teams can work from a single source of truth without duplication or confusion.

Data and IP Management is critical because without centralized control, teams risk overwriting files, duplicating work, and missing tape-out deadlines. Keysight SOS prevents these issues with built-in revision control, access permissions, and automated workflows.

Keysight SOS integrates directly with Cadence Virtuoso Studio to provide automatic check-in and check-out of design files, maintain full revision history, and offer Visual Design Difference (VDD) to compare schematics or layouts. This integration helps Virtuoso users reduce errors, collaborate securely across distributed teams, and accelerate project delivery.

Keysight SOS integrates natively with Synopsys Custom Compiler and Synopsys Library Manager. It supports automatic check-in and check-out of schematics and layouts, eliminates binary file duplication, and recognizes composite design objects. This ensures that Compiler users can collaborate securely, manage revisions seamlessly, and simplify complex design workflows.

Keysight SOS integrates with Keysight ADS to recognize composite design objects, provide efficient data and IP management, and eliminate binary replication across design stages. This helps analog and mixed-signal teams manage design data more effectively while boosting productivity.

Keysight SOS makes design data AI-ready by structuring, tagging, and versioning every design file so that the data is clean, traceable, and consistent. This provides the foundation for AI and machine learning models to deliver predictive analytics, accelerate verification, and improve yield.

Structured data is essential for AI workflows because unstructured or duplicated data leads to poor model performance. With structured design data, engineers can ensure AI models reliably learn from past designs and generate accurate insights for new projects.

Keysight SOS reduces storage costs by preventing unnecessary file duplication. Instead of replicating entire files, it stores only the incremental changes, which reduces disk space usage and lowers IT costs while maintaining fast access to large design files such as GDSII and simulation waveforms.

Keysight SOS provides significant advantages for IP reuse by tagging, versioning, and validating IP blocks. Engineers can quickly locate, verify, and reuse existing IP across multiple projects, which shortens design cycles and reduces the risk of costly errors.

Yes. Keysight SOS also supports other leading EDA environments such as Empyrean Aether, MathWorks MATLAB, Siemens EDA (Pyxis and Tanner), Silvaco Gateway, Synopsys Laker, and more. This allows design teams to manage data and IP consistently across all major analog, digital, and mixed-signal workflows.

Keysight SOS improves collaboration by synchronizing design data across global sites, enforcing access permissions, and providing project leaders with real-time visibility into progress. This reduces the need for manual file tracking, minimizes compliance risks, and allows engineers to spend more time on innovation instead of administration.