Original created Dec. 31 2010
                                                                                          Last Update  Jan. 2 2011  
                                                                                           by Martin Chu

Introduction

Successful circuit designs requires a lot of expertise, resource, and experience. For a small or medium IC design companies those precious and scarce resources may not be available for them. Up to now, it is always up to companies themselves to overcome those hurdles in order to enter into certain market segments. resource at much affordable price. Dr. Wen-Hwa Martin Chu, founder of PDK101.COM explained the collaborate mechanism and operational modes.  PDK101.COM, an Austin, Texas based company has provided an innovative and efficient mechanism for small and medium companies to gain, build and share precious  resource at much affordable price. 

Core Business Concepts

PDK101.COM was created under several basic principles to help and facilities companies  sharing IP and design resources.

(1) Incorporating all known Best Practices into IC design and verification flow
(2) Leaned and incorporated previous valuable lessons from success and failure chip designs. 
(3) Drive a consistent and robust First Pass Success Design (FPSD) flow and methodologies.
(4) Helping our clients to achieve their fast design and mass production schedule.
(5) Use IPfarm© flow to facilitate IP creation, marketing, pollination and commercialization.
(6) Reducing and share our development experience to small and medium design house to reduce EDA/PDK R&D cost

Based on customers' decisions, those qualified IP will be either isolated or available for all other PDK101 customers under share-exchange or fee-based. IPfarm provides an independent, efficient and central repository for IP development, cost sharing and knowledge buildup platform. All sorts of IC Circuit design, IP blocks, design flow and best practices can be fully re-used at minimum or no cost to small and medium IC design houses.     

PDK101.COM has instituted a new Circuit Intellectual Property (IP) creation and sharing business model (IPfarm).  IPfarm is an unique method for individual or companies to define, develop, control, share and profit from the Circuit Design Intellectual Property. PDK101.COM will utilizes its expertise, automatic QA flow, and industrial standards to qualify customer submitted IP.  Based on customers' decisions, those qualified IP will be either isolated or available for all other PDK101 customers under share-exchange or fee-based. IPfarm provides an indepentent, efficient and central repository for IP development, cost sharing and knowledge buildup platform. All sort of IC Circuit design, IP blocks, design flow and best practices can be fully re-used at minimum or no cost to small and medium IC design houses.     

Currently, PDK101.COM provides three different kinds of partner participation modes for IPfarm business.

General contributor: 
This group of interested parties will be able to contribute their design specification, design concept, knowledge, test vectors, test benches and validation data into PDK101.com. There will a dedicate project area for individual contribute to develop their projects and deliverables. The end products and documents will be further verified independently by PDK101.COM team and then push into IP/knowledge repository. The contributors have all the right to open or close such project to general public. If the verified IP is open to general public, once it has been selected and used by other members, there will be loyalty or fee derived from that IP and reward back to initial contributors.  

Premium member:
This group of interested parties will be paying membership fee to access all open IP database inside PDK101.com. Premier members have all general contributors' right and privilege and submit and verify incoming IP database. 

Business Details