Through this latest collaboration, shared customers will be able to shorten design schedules and reduce compute costs by adopting the Cadence Pegasus Physical Verification System and TSMC technologies, while leveraging the ready-to-use Cadence CloudBurst Platform and Microsoft Azure cloud.
Executing physical verification on large digital designs has traditionally consumed significant compute resources for long periods of time, while requiring high-performance machines with large, expensive physical memory.
Given that physical verification is one of the final tasks prior to tapeout, designers are under extreme pressure to meet aggressive design schedules and compute budgets.
The Cadence Pegasus Verification System was built from the ground up for massively distributed implementation on-premises and in the cloud. Its FlexCompute technology provides dynamic, automated CPU management, saving users from having to specify exact CPU requirements. FlexCompute also optimises CPU utilisation, providing a balance between turnaround time and cloud compute resources. Initial results demonstrated that the Pegasus Verification System in the cloud provided optimal performance and a 20% reduction in cloud compute costs.
“Driven by the constant push to meet consumer demands while coping with increasingly larger design sizes, design teams can look to the cloud to verify designs with flexible compute resources,” said Dan Kochpatcharin, head of the Design Infrastructure Management Division at TSMC. “Our continued collaboration with Cadence and Microsoft through the TSMC OIP Cloud Alliance has given our customers fast, easy access to our advanced technologies and Cadence’s leading design solutions in a cloud environment running on Microsoft Azure. This collective effort lets customers manage giga-scale designs effectively, so they can achieve significant run-time speedup and bring differentiated products to market sooner, with higher quality.”
Commenting Dr. Chin-Chi Teng, senior vice president and general manager of the Digital & Signoff Group at Cadence, said, “Using our Pegasus Verification System with its FlexCompute technologies and the ready-to-use CloudBurst environment with the Microsoft Azure cloud platform and TSMC’s technologies gives our customers the competitive edge they need to efficiently manage compute costs for time-sensitive chip design projects.”
