To drive significantly greater productivity and efficiency for increasingly
complex chip designs, Synopsys, Inc. announced a new cloud-optimized electronic
design automation (EDA) deployment model that delivers unparalleled levels of
chip and system design flexibility via a single-source, pay-as-you-go approach.
Synopsys Cloud provides access to the company's cloud-optimized design and
verification products, with pre-optimized infrastructure on Microsoft Azure to
address higher levels of interdependencies in chip development.
"Semiconductor companies are increasingly challenged to quickly deliver
both complex functionality and energy efficiency to meet growing requirements
for more compute," said Mark Papermaster, executive vice president and
CTO, AMD. "AMD is delivering high-performance processors across a wide
range of workloads. Innovative approaches like Synopsys Cloud built on the
Microsoft Azure HBv3 cloud platform - now powered by the latest 3rd
Gen AMD EPYC Processors with 3D V-Cache technology - can provide access to
optimized compute and EDA tools in the cloud, further adding to our innovative
chip design capabilities."
Flexibility to Address Dynamic Chip Design and Verification Workloads
Chip development in the cloud represents a way forward for an industry
grappling with exploding computational demands along with continued
time-to-market pressure. From innovative design houses to large systems
companies to small startups, more chipmakers are migrating workloads to the
cloud to take full advantage of the faster time-to-results, enhanced
quality-of-results and better cost-of-results that cloud-based design and
verification technologies provide. It has, however, become more challenging to
forecast compute needs, leading engineers to underestimate the compute and EDA
resources they need while experiencing growing systemic complexity.
Collaboration with Microsoft Azure to Enhance Chip Development with SaaS
Approach
In recent years, chip development teams began leveraging a "bring your
own cloud" (BYOC) approach offered by Synopsys and other EDA vendors,
where chip development teams are required to source compute infrastructure from
public cloud service providers and are frequently constrained by pre-defined
design and verification capacity. Synopsys is working closely with its
preferred cloud partner, Microsoft, to transform the landscape through a
software-as-a-service (SaaS) chip development solution on the Microsoft Azure
cloud computing platform. With the SaaS approach, customers can directly access
and pay as they go for cloud compute resources and for any Synopsys
cloud-enabled design and verification product.
Customers who already have cloud resources through a BYOC model can also
take advantage of Synopsys Cloud and its pay-per-use cloud-enabled EDA tools.
The collaboration with Microsoft Azure will enable design teams to benefit from
flexibility and faster time-to-market, addressing today's systemic complexities
in chip design and verification.
Streamlining the Foundry Collateral Process
Synopsys is working together with major foundries to streamline access to
required manufacturing collateral for use with its cloud-optimized products.
The roadmap for the collaboration aims to provide customers with a flexible,
cloud-optimized approach for accessing and managing foundry collateral.
"Our new Synopsys Cloud offering promises to be transformative,
providing designers the ability to scale up or down in response to their
dynamic chip design and verification needs," said Sassine Ghazi, president
and chief operating officer at Synopsys. "As more design flows incorporate
AI, requiring even more resources, the virtually unlimited compute and EDA
access we're providing will lay the foundation for new levels of semiconductor
innovation while delivering a flexible, secure chip development environment for
future demands."
Rani Borkar, Corporate Vice President, Azure Hardware Systems &
Infrastructure at Microsoft added, "Addressing systemic complexity along
with interdependent design flows in chip design requires more compute and EDA
resources than ever before. Microsoft Azure continues to scale its
high-performance computing infrastructure with the availability, affordability
and capacity to handle advanced chip design and verification workloads. The
Synopsys Cloud software-as-a-service solution has been purpose-built on
Microsoft Azure for EDA workloads, delivering a flexible design and
verification environment to foster the productivity that design teams
need."
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