IEEE-ISTO Announces Discussion to Progress Interconnect Modeling Standard

IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization (IEEE-ISTO), the foremost trusted partner of the global technology community for the development, embracing, and certification of industry standards, has entered into a partnership with Synopsys to form a technical advisory board to facilitate the evolution of Synopsys' Interconnect Technology Format (ITF) into an industry standard format for interconnect parasitic modeling.

The founding members of the Interconnect Modeling TAB (IMTAB) are legislature from industry-leading semiconductor companies, EDA companies and silicon foundries including 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 leverage ITF as the basis of interconnect modeling standard and drive its development to address future industry demands. ITF will be available industry-wide through an open source license agreement with Synopsys. IEEE-ISTO will manage the operations of IMTAB.