SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING THE DESIGN AND CONFIGURATION OF AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT SEMICONDUCTOR DESIGN

A system and methods that facilitate the design process and minimize the time and effort required to complete the design and fabrication of an integrated circuits (IC) are described. The system and method utilize a plurality of repositories, rules engines and design and verification tools to analyze the workload and automatically produce a hardened GDSII description or other representation of the device. The system and method securely maintains synthesizable RTL on a server in a data center while providing designers access to portions of the mechanism by way of a network portal.