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Business Model

PyCell Studio™ is a free product. Both the authoring capability, used by PyCell™ developers, and the OpenAccess plug-in, which opens and instantiates PyCells from PyCell libraries in any OpenAccess-based tool, are free. Ciranova™ has made PyCell Studio available for free because we believe that OpenAccess must have a universal and interoperable PCell authoring and instantiation capability.

Ciranova's business model for PyCell Studio is to provide commercial support and premium functionality to PyCell Studio users rather than licensing the software. We believe this business model is well suited for EDA infrastructure software. By making PyCell Studio available for free, we have helped accelerate OpenAccess adoption, which benefits everyone.

To ensure continued availability and updates for PyCell Studio, Ciranova has placed the source code for the free product into escrow. Please click here for full details. Click here to read a description of what is included in the free PyCell Studio product.

Ciranova Helix™ and PCell Xtreme™ are licensed under commercial licensing terms.

 

XPyCell
Universal OpenAccess PCells, created using Ciranova's PyCell Studio software. PyCells are authored using the popular Python programming language, hence the name.
XAMS
Analog/Mixed Signal
XPyros Layout Viewer
A component of Ciranova's PyCell Studio software. The Pyros Layout Viewer can open any OpenAccess block, select layout objects for examination, and manipulate PyCell parameters. Pyros also includes a built-in design rule checker that allows users to check the layout interactively.