API to connect multiple EDA tools from different vendors on Synopsys Cloud
Date: 07/11/2023
Chip design industry normally uses multiple EDA software tools, Silicon IP, PDKs and other such information from different foundries. In order to find a seamless interoperable solution, Synopsys has come out with its new Synopsys Cloud OpenLink program to handle licensing and deployment details across EDA, IP, and foundry vendors, by providing quick and easy access to these elements.
Synopsys launches its new Synopsys Cloud OpenLink program for chip designers to access multi-vendor solutions in the Synopsys Cloud environment. This solution is available immediately to use with proven workflows for Ansys, GlobalFoundries, Keysight Technologies, and Microsoft on Synopsys Cloud. Synopsys has invited semiconductor chip design ecosystem vendors to join this Synopsys Cloud OpenLink program.
Synopsys has released API specs for the Synopsys Cloud OpenLink program so that members can deploy system-level integration by securely and reliably transfering their entitlements to Synopsys Cloud. This solution enables mutual customers with an end-to-end SoC design environment having easy and efficient access to EDA software, VLSI Silicon IP and other such chip design related IPs, and computing resources of their choice. Synopsys Cloud OpenLink API provides secure handshake between Synopsys Cloud and member systems for accurate and protected customer entitlement and access.
"Customers are successfully deploying complex design flows with EDA tools and IP of their choice on Synopsys Cloud across designs spanning AI, automotive, mobile, and data center applications," said Shankar Krishnamoorthy, general manager of the Synopsys EDA Group. "The Synopsys Cloud OpenLink program is a natural extension of this solution to further enable robust design flows with industry-wide interoperability. This first of its kind program including an open API enables more designers to benefit from our SaaS offering, bringing the design ecosystem together to accelerate chip development through a seamless cloud environment."
"Ansys is committed to providing open, extensible design platforms so that customers can make chip design flows that are optimized for today's high-performance, low-power, and multi-die products," said John Lee, vice president and general manager of Electronics, Semiconductor, and Optics Business Unit at Ansys. "We have collaborated extensively with Synopsys to deliver uniquely valuable integrated flows in the areas of timing, voltage drop, and thermal analysis, and the Synopsys Cloud OpenLink program lets mutual customers leverage these joint flows on Synopsys Cloud in a highly secure and convenient way."
"With the Synopsys Cloud OpenLink program, AI chip design startups such as Mentium Technologies are able to deploy GlobalFoundries Process Design Kits (PDKs) on the Synopsys Cloud SaaS platform seamlessly for an end-to-end browser-based experience," said Ziv Hammer, senior vice president of Customer Design Enablement at GlobalFoundries.
"Our mutual customers are already using Keysight RFPro electromagnetic simulation as part of a complete Analog/RF chip design flow on Synopsys Cloud, leading to superior time-to-results advantages that Synopsys Cloud provides," said Niels Faché, GM/VP for Keysight EDA. "The Synopsys Cloud OpenLink program will further enable additional Keysight tools to be used on Synopsys Cloud, such as our Advanced Design System – making the program an excellent enabler of industry-wide interoperability for cloud-based EDA."
"Chip designers deploying EDA workloads on the Synopsys Cloud SaaS environment, which runs on Microsoft Azure, want to easily access their diverse sets of tools in that environment," said Mujtaba Hamid, GM, Secure Cloud Environments at Microsoft. "The Synopsys Cloud OpenLink program makes interoperability across diverse chip design flows seamless and efficient for our mutual customers."
Synopsys claims its customers have done multiple successful tape out of chips by using Synopsys Cloud after it was launched in March of 2022. It is designed to provide unlimited access to EDA licenses on-demand by making available ample compute and storage infrastructure over cloud with Cloud native EDA tools on pre-optimised hardware platforms.
Synopsys also said it is offering extremely flexible business model to design chips using cloud environment.
For more details visit:
https://www.synopsys.com/cloud.html
and
https://www.synopsys.com/cloud/openlink.html
