Companies with electronic design automation requirements are finding that the challenge of verifying and simulating significantly complicated circuitry in microprocessor/FPGA designs can be met by deploying high performance computing clusters to dramatically accelerate analysis and run completion.

Microprocessors have hit over one billion transistors on a chip in a space that ten years ago packed a small fraction of that number. New manufacturing techniques at under 13 microns permit circuits to be smaller and more densely packed than ever before. With this added complexity comes the challenge of verifying and simulating significantly more complicated circuitry.

Electronic Design Automation began its move to distributed computing with the popularity of Solaris-based Sun compute farms years ago. Today, Linux has raised the bar on synthesis, simulation, and verification solutions with a new generation of compute farms that lead the way in price/performance. QLogic products can take companies in this industry to the next level of productivity.

Finish Simulations and Synthesis Runs Faster

In the semiconductor industry, time-to-market is everything. Increased complexity in integrated circuit designs has made the simulation requirement of next-morning test completion more and more difficult to achieve. The ability to reach a higher scale of computing parallelism will guarantee run completion in a fraction of the previous timeframe and allow for broader simulation sweeps.

Improve Designs

As witnessed by the Pentium floating point error several years ago, the cost of a post-production error is extremely high. Increased verification sweeps enabled by QLogic cluster interconnect allows for more rigorous testing and identification of problems earlier in product development.

Reduce or Eliminate Costs

By better leveraging cluster compute and storage resources, companies utilizing QLogic solutions can significantly reduce the costs and complexities associated with deploying and operating high performance data centers supporting EDA applications.