SAN FRANCISCO — The ASIC Council is hosting a breakfast meeting at the Design Automation Conference on Monday to demonstrate its Open Library API (OLA). The application-programming-interface demo promises to show timing-analysis, synthesis, simulation and design-for-test tools from different companies working from common compiled libraries.

The tools used in the DAC demonstration will be Ambit's BuildGates synthesis tool; Mentor Graphics' DFT Advisor scan insertion tool, SST Velocity static-timing tool, FastScan ATPG and ModelSim simulator; IBM's Einstimer delay calculator; and the CADWorx ALF-to-DCL preprocessor/converter. A single register-transfer-level-based design will be processed by all of the tools used in the demo.