August 9, 2012-- IC Manage, Inc. today announced that Altera Corp. has signed a multi-year license agreement for the IC Manage Global Design Platform (GDP), including IP Central, for use across the company's worldwide development sites. Altera adopted IC Manage design-management solutions to achieve higher IP reuse, trace bug interdependencies, and improve multi-site collaboration.

Altera chose IC Manage to help shorten design time and increase financial return on internal IP assets. Development teams can efficiently manage their design data and bug information from project start through tape-out. Altera also is taking advantage of IC Manage IP Central's ability to maximize IP reuse by providing close collaboration between managers, IP creators, chip designers, and verification engineers, enabling them to rapidly publish and reuse their IP, while tracking IP usage and its associated bug history.

"IC Manage GDP and IP Central have robust functionalities, so the ramp-up has been quick, and we are achieving significant productivity gains," said Yaron Kretchmer, Senior Manager, Engineering Infrastructure, Altera. "In less than a month, we have been able to fully deploy the IC Manage design and IP management system on complex projects involving hundreds of Altera engineers across the globe."

Posted by: John Miklosz