Help enterprises achieve system-level design
This article is translated and reprinted in Semiwiki,
AuthorBernard Murphy
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System-level design has become a key foundation for "everything is smart", but it has failed to gain popularity in the equally fast-growing field of application lifecycle management ( ALM, application lifecycle management ) tools. ALM tools are used to simplify product design and construction processes, trace the correlation between product requirements and design/testing, and customer relationship management. They are widely used on web pages, clouds, and mobile phones. This market of more than $50 billion is still growing rapidly, centralizing and automating all related businesses. High-tech companies already heavily use similar tools for project and requirements management. Software companies are tying critical applications to development and engineering operations (DevOps). Thanks to the key promotion of Cadence, semiconductor companies have also begun to apply DevOps.
The primary need for this is traceability management.
While it sounds like a great app, it's not enough on its own to force companies to change their existing workflows. According to analysis by Matt Graham, director of product engineering at Cadence, the reason for the shift is the increasing challenges of supporting traceability. We have actually seen the emergence of this trend from ISO 26262 and other mission-critical standards. In order to realize from requirements to design to testing, only good traceability can ensure the achievement of product requirements.
The traditional way to achieve this is through a requirements traceability matrix (RTM), which is essentially a spreadsheet that associates multiple requirements document types, such as technical and even business. Doing so can give the implementation plan, especially the test plan, a more detailed status description to ensure that whatever is described on the demand side can be implemented and tested. If this correspondence is bidirectional, it also ensures that any unnecessary requirements are not added to the implementation and testing process.
This old method is time-consuming, labor-intensive and error-prone. As the scale of product design expands, more requirement items need to be traced, and this method is obviously not applicable. When the design process enters the final stages of changes and derivatives, the accuracy of RTM will significantly decay, and its agility will also decrease significantly. Both sprint testing and iterative regression are slowed down by manual table updates.
Traceability and Verification Plan
There is no doubt that most teams will develop a lot of scripting software for automating updates, but this approach also has limitations, which requirements management system needs to be supported - Doors, Jama or Jira? What do your partners and customers support? Standards like ReqIF can be helpful, but they generally only apply to one-way communication between partners and have limited effect on increasing value within the enterprise.
Cadence has cooperated with OpsHub for many years and has now realized the interconnection between vManager verification management platforms to achieve demand management goals. These targets are typically managed outside of the instant verification domain. Matt tells me this approach started being accelerated a year and a half ago for retroactive support. He also noticed that bug tracking and version control were adopting this approach even faster. Access to the industry's leading DevOps platform and bi-directional communication confirms the value of this collaboration. All members of the development chain can obtain timely information and updates using the tools and formats they are accustomed to. Automation eliminates limitations on data scalability, granularity, and currency.
OpsHub has many years of experience supporting software DevOps teams, including some of the largest banks and financial institutions. Jama Software, one of the partners, has a long list of semiconductor companies and is particularly good at requirements change management and review.
A thousand-mile journey begins with a single step
This connectivity benefits semiconductor development teams, project management teams and their customers. By improving the tighter connection between input requirements, status and delivery, relevant personnel will receive better support. OpsHub currently supports many platforms, including Atlassian Jira, Jama Connect, IBM Doors, Azure DevOps, Salesforce, PTC and multiple Broadcom products. I can’t wait to see what happens when more enterprise-grade features are connected to design.
For a detailed introduction to vManager, please visit:
https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/tools/system-design-and-verification/planning-and-management/vmanager-solution.html
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