Increase IP Reuse. Reduce Re-spins.
As semiconductor and system complexity increases and teams incorporate AI into their workflows, acceleration requires efficient IP reuse and governance. But without a centralized system for IP management, critical IP data is fragmented across teams and tools—increasing the risk of errors and re-spins. Perforce IPLM (formerly Methodics IPLM) provides a scalable IP-centric platform that tracks IP and its metadata across projects, providing end-to-end traceability, enabling effortless IP reuse, and delivering a trusted foundation for AI-powered workflows.
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IP-Centric Features Semiconductor Teams Need
Key benefits of Perforce IPLM
Perforce IPLM provides an integrated IP catalog with powerful search and filtering capabilities. This allows designers to quickly and easily find the IP they need. And fine-grained permissions ensure they can only access the IP that is available to them. Every aspect of the IP lifecycle is tracked and visible in IPLM in easy-to-understand, configurable dashboards. Designers can see the projects the IP has been used in, any outstanding bugs, derivative designs, regression status, and much more.
Workspaces are central to SoC integration. It’s the point where IP and the rest of the design come together. IPLM's advanced IP and data caching infrastructure reduces workspace creation time from hours to seconds — and dramatically decreases data storage requirements. So designers have instant access to the files and data they need.
Administrators can track IP usage and development across the enterprise. And comprehensive controls enable admins to determine the design files, IPs, tool configurations, machine resource allocation, and other infrastructure components available to team members.
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IPLM provides a single source of truth for creating and managing your bill of materials (BoM). With a hierarchical BoM for hardware, software, and the platform, you get a complete view of the project, including all versions and dependencies. These versioned releases ensure quality through centralized management of IP integration rules and checkpoints. For example, you can define which range of hardware IP versions a software component is compatible with. So, if a hardware team upgrades, IPLM will flag a compatibility mismatch. Teams can even integrate planned and in-progress IPs in a Planning BoM to accelerate the design planning process and enable better build-or-buy decisions.
Data is key to making informed project decisions. IPLM offers at-a-glance visibility of data through configurable dashboards, backed by a powerful data analytics platform. Default dashboard configurations are provided for common design tasks, such as IP qualification, IP release status, and IP usage information. And new widgets can easily be added through the user-friendly, visual widget editor. IPLM also includes a first-class RESTful API for custom dashboard development, including company specific reporting, industry compliance, or integration with existing corporate systems.
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IPLM automates the design release process, eliminating the risks associated with manually releasing a design. Hierarchical release mechanisms ensure that IP blocks are released in the correct order, based on design dependencies, for quality-driven release flows. IPLM also provides pre-release and post-release hooks and triggers to ensure no IPs are made available to others until they meet your organization's standards for IP quality and maturity.
IPLM ensures the highest level of security to protect critical IP assets from every angle. Fine-grained user permissions allow you to control IP access. And with end-to-end traceability from requirements to release, you can easily track IP usage across your entire IP catalog — and quickly identify vulnerabilities in released ICs. Violating technology export control laws can result in millions of dollars in fines, on top of lost revenue and market setbacks caused by IP leakage. IPLM’s Geofencing feature ensures compliance and prevents IP leakage by restricting IPs and metadata in prohibited locations, regardless of access permissions.
Perforce IPLM provides the trusted foundation for AI-powered workflows by managing all design artifacts as traceable metadata within a single system. MCP (Model Context Protocol) makes this governed context usable within AI-driven workflows.
Ensure AI operates on trusted data with: policy-driven workflows, full traceability, centralized metadata, and controlled releases.
With IPLM MCP, teams can: use natural language to easily manage IP, interact with IPLM through AI tools, and access real-time design context, for improved engineering efficiency, greater design reuse, and more informed decision-making.
Your AI is only as good as your IP intelligence. Govern accordingly.
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Perforce Semiconductor Platform
Perforce gives you a central platform to plan, manage, reuse, and track IP.
IP Lifecycle Management
Perforce IPLM tracks IP and its metadata across projects, providing end-to-end traceability. Teams can browse an enterprise-wide IP catalog, while keeping IP secure across the globe.
Design Data Management
Perforce P4 (formerly Helix Core) scales to manage all your IP and design data with global multi-site replication. You can secure millions of large files including binaries, design files, IPs, and more.
Analog Data Management
Perforce VersIC lets you easily leverage data management within your native analog design environment. Gain all the benefits of modern data management and version control without requiring designers to learn a new tool.
A Day in the Life: Design Engineer
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