6 Months to 6 Hours: Instant, Secure Silicon Collaboration
Skip building physical chambers and reproducing bugs. Work directly with EDA vendors, IP providers, and fab partners. Secure your tapeouts.
Request a DemoModern Semiconductor Design: First-Pass Silicon Success Takes a Village
The modern semiconductor supply chain is incredibly complex. Supporting a product over the entire lifecycle requires fabless semiconductor companies to coordinate dozens of third parties, ranging from IP vendors to contractors to packaging, testing, and ecosystem partners.
But the Tools Are Dated
The standard tool at IT’s disposal to enable this complex dance—a physical chamber typically built with VPNs, firewalls, and VDI—is based on decades-old IT that wasn’t designed for the deep access that semiconductor projects need. That’s why setting up a chamber for collaboration can take months for design, review, and sign-off.
And Delays Can Be Deadly
When issues arise, the need for resolution couldn’t be more urgent. However, setting up a test case that replicates a failure without exposing corporate or third-party IP doesn’t always work, and moving the design into a physical chamber (once set up) can change the environment and hardware dependencies needed to reproduce bugs. These unforecasted project delays can push back tape-out dates and trigger “risk” tape-outs that end up burning millions of dollars.
And, even worse, IP leaks can be devastating for a company’s competitive position.
Zentera's Virtual Chambers: Powering Semiconductor Excellence
Zentera delivers a Virtual Chambers provide a revolutionary approach to semiconductor security that eliminates the trade-offs between protection and collaboration. Virtual Chambers are software and contain everything needed to secure critical design assets while providing instant, least-privilege access for authorized users to maintain the security of corporate and third-party IP.
How Virtual Chambers Transform Semiconductor Design
Instant Collaboration Environments
Create Virtual Chambers around critical OT/ICS assets - without reconfiguring your networks.
- Deploys as software in minutes—a more than 100x speedup in business agility compared to traditional methods of chamber design
- Provides secure access to specific servers and hardware without the threat of IP leaks
- Reduces or eliminates the need to reproduce failures or migrate data
Zero Trust Data Leak Protection
- Mitigates risks from unmanaged devices by limiting access to authorized users and known good applications—no open ports for malware to leverage
- Protects corporate and third-party IP by restricting lateral movement from within the chamber
- Blocks VDI data leaks with controls for copy/paste, file transfer, and remote USB behavior and session watermarking
- Ensures rapid compliance with stringent requirements, including CMMC and ITAR
- Provides comprehensive audit trails for compliance and forensics
Seamless Contractor Access
- Validates contractors with MFA before granting access to corporate IP
- Doesn’t conflict with contractors’ existing security tools and practices
- Enables quick setup without corporate IT infrastructure support or network changes
- Supports contractor access to both on-premises and cloud-based collaboration environments
Supports All Phases of the Product Lifecycle
Design
- Collaborate with IP and EDA vendors to speed product design
- Provide third-party contractor access for design and verification
- Drive custom design reviews and push rule use with fab partner
Manufacturing
- Collaborate with packaging and system-in-package vendors
- Secure and access proprietary and custom test equipment co-located at test houses
Production
- Remotely debug software with GDB without exposing source code or putting customers’ IP at risk
- Provide trusted ecosystem partners with remote access to company lab environments
Trusted by Industry Leaders
Ambarella relies on Zentera to secure chip design, enable AI training environments, and speed up
debugging with its tool vendors.
Zentera Virtual Chambers help Cadence collaborate, protect source code, and deliver EDA services.
Through a decade-long partnership with Siemens Digital Industries Software, Zentera Virtual Chambers have enabled collaboration, delivered EDA capabilities, and achieved compliance.
Validated by Major Fabs
Zentera's security architecture has been demonstrated to meet the most stringent protection requirements for protecting critical third-party intellectual property stored in customer networks.
Real-World Impact
CoIP gives you the security that you need, and at the same time, overlay networking gives you a level of agility that you just don't have today in a traditional infrastructure."
"With the CoIP Platform, we are able to protect our IP and segment our resources across worldwide infrastructures almost instantly."
"CoIP Platform's best-in-class microsegmentation keeps our customers secure, and we and our customers have saved a significant amount of time in configuration and deployment."
Simple Implementation, Immediate Results
Minimal Infrastructure Requirements
No Network Changes Required
- Network infrastructure requires no modifications
- Firewall configuration needs no changes (outbound TLS 1.3 only)
- No VPN needed, thanks to built-in ZTNA
Software-Only Deployment
- zCenter Orchestrator: VM installed on-premises or in the cloud
- ZNS Data Plane: VM provides secure overlay connectivity
- zLink Agent: Software installed on design servers (Windows, Linux)
- CoIP Launcher: Browser-initiated access authenticated against corporate IdP/MFA
Rapid Deployment Process
- Install: Deploy zLink agents to the target design servers
- Configure: Push chamber policies to isolate servers and leverage templates for automation
- Collaborate: Configure access policies for internal teams and external vendors
- Scale: Expand protection to additional design assets as needed
Next Steps: Protecting Your Semiconductor Innovation
Semiconductor companies can't afford to choose between security and speed. Virtual Chambers eliminate this trade-off, providing the security you need with the agility that competitive markets demand.
Ready to accelerate your design cycles while protecting critical IP?
- Request a Demo: See how Virtual Chambers can transform your design collaboration
- Proof of Concept: Simulate a debug scenario to evaluate security and efficiency improvements
- Security Assessment: Understand how Virtual Chambers integrate with your existing security infrastructure
Contact Zentera today to discover how software-defined security can bridge your design and vendor collaboration challenges while maintaining the IP protection that your competitive advantage depends on.
Transform semiconductor security from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage. Choose Virtual Chambers for the protection, agility, and collaboration your innovation demands.
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