stxNotes™ - Collaboration Tools for Cadence Designers and Design Teams | Today, more than ever, effective communication and collaboration within design teams is vital to success. Schedule pressures, complex process technology, and large-scale designs present new challenges that require team interaction on a daily basis. Quality interaction can be difficult to achieve in local environments but is especially challenging when design teams are scattered widely. Existing collaboration methods have been external to Cadence, cobbled together from makeshift components, time consuming or difficult to use, and ineffective for expressing ideas in EDA. stxNotes™ changes all of that. This unique tool makes this vital communication task easy, effective, secure and available 24/7 to the entire design team. stxNotes™ provides the tools for users to graphically annotate, illustrate, and document design issues, ideas, questions, and answers on any schematic or layout view. The notes can then be saved for personal documentation, attached to specific design data, or sent to individuals, groups, or entire design teams. The entire process is done in an instant and accomplished from within the Cadence environment with familiar and easy to use tools. |  | stxNotes™ PE - Personal Edition - Convenient annotation tools for personal documentation of cell views without disturbing the underlying Cadence database.
stxNotes™ DE - Designer Edition - Powerful annotation and documentation tools tied to specific cell views for global design team reference.
stxNotes™ TE - Team Edition - Comprehensive annotation, documentation and communication tools for enterprise-wide design team collaboration.
| - stxNotes™ provides documentation and accountability for daily design issues, resolutions, and team communications.
- stxNotes™ are easily created, sent, received, and viewed 24/7 enterprise wide.
- stxNotes™ do not impact live data and requires read only access to create or view.
- stxNotes™ requires no scheduling or third party tools
| stxNotes™ - Accountability and Documentation | In the fast paced high pressure EDA design world, collaborative communication is an ongoing process. stxNotes™ supports and enhances this process by providing accountability and documentation for both formal and informal design reviews, meetings, office visits, brainstorming sessions, change requests, and information or guidance needed queries. Managers can be informed and in the loop whenever they would like on issues that may otherwise go undocumented. Designers can easily be given assignments, and quickly recall tasks assigned, discussed, or proposed. stxNotes™ eliminates or reduces dependence on other non-integrated external tools like eMail, web sessions, and expensive office to office visits. It’s easy. It’s convenient. It’s collaboration that works for EDA! |  | stxNotes™ - Don't just say it...Say it graphically | Use stxNotes™ to graphically annotate any schematic or layout cell views. A familiar and intuitive master console controls message management and user options. Creation of note elements and note frames is guided by an easy to use menu of Virtuoso© like drawing and editing functions. stxNotes™ annotations are an overlay to your live design data that will never alter or impact the Cadence database. In fact you can create and display stxNotes™ in read only mode with full Cadence pan, zoom, viewing, and layer display functionality. |
 | stxNotes™ - Enterprise - Wide Design Team Collaboration | stxNotes™ brings communication and collaboration to EDA design teams in way that is truly effective and unique. Creating and delivering descriptive messages that convey critical information, request clarifications, present new ideas, or provide solutions to the endless flow of real issues that take place among design teams is now easy, convenient, and at your Cadence workstation. Create the message annotations right on top of your design data at the viewing perspective you need. Address your message to yourself, attach it to a specific cell view, or send it to as many members of the design team as needed in a matter of a few clicks. stxNotes™ are available to be viewed in seconds at the recipients stxNotes™ master console. Team members not available, home sick, traveling, or out of the office? No problem… stxNotes™ will be there when they are 24/7. Team members in other buildings, 2 floors up, down the hall, or across the world? stxNotes™ will get there with graphic clarity. stxNotes™ opens the door to better communication and collaboration and is fully integrated with the Cadence Virtuoso© and Composer© environments. | | stxNotes™ - Design Team Documentation | Communicate design rules variances, waivers, special considerations, and interactions on a cell view by cell view basis with stxNotes™ CBM’s or “Cell Bound Messages”. Using the full graphical annotation and frame capability of stxNotes™ , CBM messages are attached to specific schematic or layout views and become available to the entire design team when that cell view is accessed. As a graphical overlay to live design data, cell bound stxNotes™ provide a mechanism for more creating detailed descriptions, actions, and instructions, or illustrating desired design techniques. A great tool for engineers and mask designers alike, stxNotes™ CBM’s allow you to articulate graphically a precise set of instructions for a given circuit schematic or layout. No extra software tools, prints, plots, email attachments, or written notes are needed. The entire design team benefits from easy to create, easy to access, and higher quality documentation available through stxNotes™ and right in your Cadence environment. | | stxNotes™ - Personal Documentation | Increase your personal productivity. Keep track of design issues, ideas, and assignments with the graphic annotation ability of stxNotes™. Easily prepare for design reviews and status meetings. Give live frame by frame tours of your design progress, problem areas, and potential solutions without impacting your live data and retaining full pan, zoom, and view control of your design. This core annotation capability is available on a stand alone basis with stxNotes™ Personal Edition. | |
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