MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
June 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --
Highlights:
- Significant throughput gains with PrimeTime timing signoff and
StarRC extraction for multi-scenario, distributed processing
runs
- Considerable cost savings by optimal utilization of cloud
computing resources for multi-scenario analysis
- Detailed whitepaper authored jointly now available on TSMC
portal to jump start customers on running cloud-enabled signoff
flow
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced its
collaboration with TSMC and Microsoft has delivered a
ground-breaking, highly scalable timing signoff flow for use in the
cloud. This extensive, multi-month collaboration among the three
industry partners speeds up the path to signoff next-generation
systems-on-chips (SoCs). The flow dramatically improves throughput
using Synopsys PrimeTime® static timing analysis and
StarRC™ parasitic extraction on the Microsoft Azure
platform.
"With increasing design complexity due to advanced process
technologies, larger library size, and higher number of operating
conditions to analyze, turnaround time for the design signoff has
become critical," said Suk Lee,
senior director of the Design Infrastructure Management Division at
TSMC. "Utilizing a cloud platform offers a great way to accelerate
signoff significantly and will fundamentally influence silicon
design. TSMC is the first foundry to collaborate with design
ecosystem partners and cloud providers to enable design in the
cloud. Working with Microsoft and Synopsys, our cloud alliance has
demonstrated remarkable throughput improvement and scalability of
timing signoff and offers a flexible, secure and efficient way for
our mutual customers to accelerate time to market for their
SoCs."
"At advanced nodes, reducing design time requires technology
innovation across the infrastructure and toolchain due to high
process complexity," said Mujtaba
Hamid, head of product management, Silicon, Electronics and
Gaming at Microsoft Azure. "This collaboration provides key
insights into tradeoffs involved between cost and performance for
these signoff iterations, thus helping the customers make effective
decisions for the design of their silicon products."
On a multi-million gate design using the TSMC N5 process,
PrimeTime static timing analysis and StarRC extraction, timing
signoff was performed on Microsoft Azure's latest Edsv4-series
compute instances. PrimeTime DMSA and StarRC multi-corner
extraction scale-out saw significant throughput gains by massively
parallelizing the runs over hundreds of machines. Additionally,
scaling-in showed major cost savings by running multiple scenarios
on a single machine.
"Working with leading-edge companies, we see the need for a high
throughput of design tools and platforms to shorten
time-to-market, whether they run the tools on-premise or in the
cloud," said Jacob Avidan, senior
vice president of Design Signoff in the Design Group at Synopsys.
"With the industry-leading and TSMC-certified PrimeTime and StarRC
solutions on Microsoft Azure, our customers can leverage the cloud
to signoff their chips with significantly higher throughput while
meeting their PPA targets with TSMC's latest advanced process
technologies."
For more information, please download the new whitepaper titled
"TSMC Timing Sign-Off in the Cloud with PrimeTime and
StarRC," which is available immediately for customer download
from TSMC-Online (https://online.tsmc.com/).
About Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is the Silicon to
Software™ partner for innovative companies developing
the electronic products and software applications we rely on every
day. As the world's 15th largest software company,
Synopsys has a long history of being a global leader in electronic
design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP and is also growing
its leadership in software security and quality solutions. Whether
you're a system-on-chip (SoC) designer creating advanced
semiconductors, or a software developer writing applications that
require the highest security and quality, Synopsys has the
solutions needed to deliver innovative, high-quality, secure
products. Learn more at www.synopsys.com.
Editorial Contact:
Simone
Souza
Synopsys, Inc.
650-584-6454
simone@synopsys.com
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