Synopsys boosts chip design with cloud platform

Synopsys has teamed with Microsoft to launch a pay-as-you-go cloud platform that it says has all the tools needed for chip design.

The cloud-optimized electronic design automation (EDA) deployment model provides the Synopsys design and verification tools with pre-optimized infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. The pre-configured tool flow helps to address higher levels of interdependencies between the different elements of chip development, through design, synthesis, verification and sign-off

More chipmakers are migrating workloads to the cloud to take full advantage of the faster time-to-results with the ability to scale the underlying processing to balance the cost-of-results.

Rather than having to set up complex design tools on cloud infrastructure, designers can directly access and pay as they go for cloud compute resources and for any Synopsys cloud-enabled design and verification product via a service called FlexEDA. Customers who already have their own cloud resources on Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud can also take advantage of Synopsys Cloud and its pay-per-use cloud-enabled EDA tools.

The platform offers RTL and gate-level simulation with the VCS and VIP tools, as well as static timing analysis with golden timing signoff through the PrimeTime tool. Physical Verification is supported with IC Validator to provide a robust, optimized flows for RTL to signoff.

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However chip designers have been wary of using public cloud services in order to protect their IP. The Synopsys Cloud offers security by design based on the Synopsys software integrity platform with data encryption in transit and at rest, and multi-factor authentication with role-based access. There is also a dedicated virtual network with workload protection, vulnerability management, and 24×7 incident response.