Enterprise DITA CCMS for Semiconductor Documentation at Scale

MadCap IXIA CCMS helps semiconductor companies manage massive documentation libraries, datasheets, application notes, reference designs, and Software Development Kit (SDK) documentation, across tens of thousands of product Stock Keeping Units (SKUs). DITA component reuse, Dynamic Release Management (DRM) for product families, and Unified Localization keep content accurate and consistent across every market and language.

Semiconductor & Electronics

Leading Semiconductor Companies Trust MadCap IXIA CCMS

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Technical Documentation Management for Semiconductors and Electronics refers to the authoring, version control, translation, and multi-output publishing of datasheets, application notes, reference manuals, programming guides, and errata documents for integrated circuits, modules, and consumer electronics products. Manufacturers maintain extensive product families with shared register definitions and electrical characteristics that must remain consistent across hundreds of part variants. MadCap IXIA CCMS supports this scale through DITA-based component content management, allowing engineering writers to reuse topics across product lines while branching content for derivative parts.

Purpose-Built Capabilities for Semiconductor Documentation

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Component Reuse Across Product Families

Author shared specification blocks once and reuse them across hundreds of datasheets. Altera achieved 130% content reuse in device handbooks, and Analog Devices centralized nearly 2 million pages of content.

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Dynamic Release Management

Manage documentation branches for different chip generations and product families with independent version control. Short 6–12 month product lifecycles demand the parallel branches DRM provides.

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Multilingual Datasheet Publishing

Deliver datasheets and application notes in 20+ languages with Unified Localization. AMD achieved 75% localization cost reduction over time managing content in up to 21 languages.

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Enterprise-Scale Content Repository

Manage tens of thousands of topics in the TEXTML native XML database with full-text search and metadata filtering. AMD manages 16,000+ searchable topics across their entire semiconductor product portfolio.

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Acquisition Content Integration

Integrate documentation from acquired companies into a unified DITA repository. Analog Devices consolidated content from Hittite Microwave and Linear Technologies acquisitions into a single managed system.

Semiconductor Documentation Solutions

Structured content management for datasheets, application notes, reference designs, and SDK documentation across semiconductor product portfolios.

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Produce datasheets, technical reference manuals, and hardware design guides for thousands of product SKUs with DITA component reuse. Shared specification blocks are authored once and reused across every relevant datasheet through DITA conref, ensuring consistency across product families.

Manage application notes, reference designs, and evaluation board documentation with structured DITA authoring. Dynamic Release Management handles documentation for different chip generations, and component reuse ensures common design patterns are consistent across every application note.

Produce SDK documentation, driver guides, and programming references with version-controlled DITA content. DRM supports multiple SDK versions simultaneously, and structured authoring ensures API references remain accurate across chip families and development platforms.

Coordinate multilingual documentation delivery with Unified Localization. Topic-based translation workflows, TMS-agnostic automation, and MadTranslations integration support multiple translation vendor workflows. AMD manages content in up to 21 languages with 75% localization cost reduction over time by sending only changed components to translators.

Integrate acquired company documentation into a unified DITA repository with consistent metadata and taxonomy. Analog Devices consolidated content from multiple acquisitions into a single system, maintaining brand consistency while preserving existing product documentation for 75,000+ products.

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Moving to DITA was a wise decision by upper-management, who foresaw the cost-savings in using XML in our documentation process. But it was not until implementing MadCap Software’s DITA CCMS solution that we were able to realize the full promise of DITA.

Keith Schengili-Roberts | Manager of Documentation and Localization, AMD Graphics Products

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IXIA CCMS’s solution has an incredible ability to search topics quickly. It searches over 16,000 topics and swiftly produces useful results.

Keith Schengili-Roberts | Manager of Documentation and Localization, AMD Graphics Products

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Documentation is the lifeblood of our company. Without documentation we can’t market or sell our products.

Andrew Leone | Senior Marketing Manager, Analog Devices

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At the heart of the ecosystem is IXIA CCMS, It acts as a central repository where DITA content can be received, standardized, created, edited, managed and published across myriad platforms.

Andrew Leone | Senior Marketing Manager, Analog Devices

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DITA CMS is a huge leap forward for us. I know the writers appreciate having a central repository where objects that are locked are locked globally and can’t be overwritten by another writer and where you can quickly trace dependencies of objects and get their revision history — there’s a lot of appreciation for that.

Severin Foreman | Information Architect, Intel FPGA (Altera)

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See MadCap IXIA CCMS in action. Watch tutorials covering DITA XML authoring, component content reuse, Dynamic Release Management, and multilingual publishing.

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IXIA CCMS Success Stories

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Discover how semiconductor leaders like AMD, Analog Devices, and Altera use MadCap IXIA CCMS to manage enterprise-scale DITA content and reduce documentation costs.

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IXIA CCMS Overview

Product Overview

MadCap IXIA CCMS is the enterprise-grade DITA component content management system for structured authoring, content reuse, and multilingual publishing at scale.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Semiconductor companies using IXIA CCMS include Analog Devices, AMD, and Altera (Intel FPGA). Published case studies document Analog Devices’ 35–40% reduction in documentation time, AMD’s 75% localization cost reduction over time, and Altera’s 130% content reuse rate.

DITA component reuse means shared specification blocks, pin diagrams, and electrical characteristics tables are authored once and reused across every relevant datasheet through DITA conref. Analog Devices manages documentation for 75,000+ products this way. The TEXTML native XML database provides full-text search and metadata filtering across the entire content repository.

Dynamic Release Management creates independent documentation branches for each chip generation while sharing common content components. Teams can document next-generation products while maintaining current-generation content. AMD uses this to manage 6–12 month product lifecycles across their entire semiconductor portfolio.

Yes. IXIA CCMS provides a centralized DITA repository where acquired company documentation can be migrated and managed under a unified taxonomy. Analog Devices used this approach to consolidate content from Hittite Microwave and Linear Technologies acquisitions into nearly 2 million pages of centralized, searchable content.

Published results show significant reuse gains. Altera achieved 130% content reuse in device handbooks. The combination of DITA component-level reuse and conref mechanisms makes semiconductor documentation particularly efficient because product families share common specification blocks, pin diagrams, and interface descriptions.

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