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Simon Butler

Simon Butler is the founder of Methodics Inc., acquired by Perforce in 2020. He is currently a Strategic Advisor for the Perforce IPLM (formerly Methodics IPLM) business unit at Perforce. Methodics created IP lifecycle management as a new business segment in the enterprise semiconductor space to serve the needs of IP and component-based design. Simon has 30 years of IC design and EDA tool development and specializes in product strategy and design.

Latest Content from Simon Butler

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Helix IPLM is now Perforce IPLM

Embedded Systems & Chip Design
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The CHIPS and Science Act's Ongoing Impact

A year after the CHIPS and Science Act passed, here's a look at the impact it has had and what's next for American semiconductor manufacturing.
Embedded Systems & Chip Design
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What Is Intellectual Property Core (IP Core)? Managing Semiconductor IP

What is IP Core? What about soft IP and hard IP? Learn best practices for managing semiconductor IP to accelerate SoC design.
Embedded Systems & Chip Design
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Comparing Data Management Infrastructure Security

In this blog, we look at today’s most popular version control and data management software and compare their current security offerings, from Git to Mercurial, SVN, and Helix Core.
Security & Compliance, Version Control
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What You Need to Know: Causal Clustering

Causal Clustering can help you safeguard your data, scale with local and concurrent writes, and provide consistency across your topology. Learn how.
Embedded Systems & Chip Design
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Semiconductor Startups: It's Never Too Early to Start IPLM

In this blog, we discuss best practices for semiconductor startups and why it’s never too early to get started correctly with IP Lifecycle Management.
Embedded Systems & Chip Design, Security & Compliance
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Creating a System BoM For Software Development

In this blog, we discuss the importance of a system BoM (also know as a software bill of materials) in providing centralized management with full traceability plus IP and component security.
Embedded Systems & Chip Design
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Creating a Software Bill of Materials

In this blog, discover why a software bill of materials is and why it is important for collaboration between hardware and software teams.
Embedded Systems & Chip Design
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How to Handle Complexity in ISO 26262 Compliance Workflows

Get an overview of setting up compliance workflows for ISO 26262 hardware design using Perforce IPLM (formerly Helix IPLM).
Security & Compliance, Embedded Systems & Chip Design