Cloud native EDA tools & pre-optimized hardware platforms
Achronix Semiconductor Corporation is a fabless semiconductor corporation based in Santa Clara, California, offering high-end FPGA-based data acceleration solutions, designed to address high-performance, compute-intensive and real-time processing applications. Achronix is the only supplier to have both high-performance, high-density standalone FPGAs and licensed eFPGA IP solutions. Achronix Speedster?7t FPGA and Speedcore? eFPGA IP offerings are further enhanced by ready-to-use VectorPath? accelerator cards targeting AI, machine learning, networking and data center applications. All Achronix products are fully supported by the Achronix Tool Suite which enables customers to quickly develop their own custom applications.
Achronix was looking for a scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-based design environment to compliment the existing on-premise environment.
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“With aging compute and scalability challenges, existing on-premise resources were not sufficient for peak compute requirements during various stages of the SoC design,” said Chris Pelosi, Vice President, Hardware Engineering, Achronix. “We wanted a scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-based design environment that we could leverage along with our existing on-premise environment. 草榴社区 Cloud provided us with complete flexibility and scalability to leverage cloud for EDA tools and infrastructure when needed. To complement cloud’s scalability and elasticity, 草榴社区 Cloud also offers true pay-per-use FlexEDA licenses. With unlimited, ondemand licenses of 草榴社区 IC Validator? running on 草榴社区 Cloud, our full-chip SoC physical verification got completed in 16 hours instead of 80 hours. Other key benefits include being able to run EDA tools from on-premises without having to manage license servers and taking advantage of bursts on demand for scalable, elastic EDA workloads. These are among the many features that make 草榴社区 Cloud a true differentiator and leader for EDA on cloud.”
We ran physical verification for our entire SoC and got results 5x faster. Combined with the reduction in license server management overhead, we are able to focus on improving the quality of the design and meeting project schedules"
Chris Pelosi
|Vice President, Hardware Engineering, Achronix
About 草榴社区 Cloud
草榴社区 Cloud combines the availability of advanced computing and storage infrastructure with unlimited access to EDA software licenses on demand so you can focus on what you do best—design chips—faster. With cloud-native EDA tools and pre-optimized hardware platforms, an extremely flexible business model, and a modern customer experience, 草榴社区 has reimagined the future of chip design on the cloud that doesn’t disrupt proven workflows.
The 草榴社区 Cloud FlexEDA business model offers two licensing options: pay-per-use (PPU) and cloud subscription license (CSL). PPU is an industry-first, true usage based licensing approach for EDA tools. 草榴社区 Cloud FlexEDA provides access to unlimited, on-demand EDA software licenses which is a transformational change compared to traditional EDA software licensing models. With 草榴社区 Cloud FlexEDA, many 草榴社区 tools are now available for use by the minute, providing customers with the granularity they need for peak usage bursts in the cloud. This helps reduce time to results significantly and deliver a better quality design ahead of time. Users can choose from two deployment options: Bring-Your-Own-Cloud (BYOC) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). 草榴社区 Cloud offers the flexibility to use either one or both deployment options, depending on customer requirements.