IEEE-ISTO Announces discussion to Evolve Interconnect Modeling Standard

The origin members of the Interconnect Modeling TAB (IMTAB) are representatives from industry-leading semiconductor companies, EDA companies and silicon foundries together with Altera Corporation, AMD, Apache Design Solutions, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, LSI, Magma Design Automation, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, STMicroelectronics and Synopsys.

IMTAB will join IEEE-ISTO's expanding federation of member programs. IMTAB will control ITF as the basis of interconnect modeling standard and drive its development to address upcoming industry demands. ITF will be available industry-wide through an open source license agreement with Synopsys. IEEE-ISTO will manage the operations of IMTAB.

IEEE-ISTO has a proven track record beginning and promoting new initiatives that foster market approval of standards, such as ITF, said Rich Goldman, vice president of corporate marketing and strategic alliances at Synopsys. IEEE-ISTO's guidance and support will enable IMTAB to fruitfully meet its goals during formation and beyond.

IMTAB marks the second Technical Advisory Board collaboration between IEEE-ISTO and Synopsys. The Liberty Technical Advisory Board was formed in 2008 and maintains the Liberty library modeling format the semiconductor industry's most widely accepted library standard.