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Synopsys and Samsung Foundry Collaboration Delivers High-Performance Physical Signoff on Samsung SAFE Cloud Design Platform
IC Validator Delivers 30 Percent Compute Savings with Dynamic Elastic CPU on Cloud MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Highlights:
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[{"type":"text","content":"IC Validator Delivers 30 Percent Compute Savings with Dynamic Elastic CPU on Cloud\n\n\nMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --\nHighlights: \nCollaboration enables on-demand IC Validator physical signoff on Samsung SAFE Cloud Design Platform Synopsys IC Validator cloud optimized technology enables massive scaling and efficient resource usage for fast design closure Rescale and Microsoft Azure provide cloud-based, high-performance computing platform to instantly scale out computationally complex physical verification jobsSynopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that its IC Validator physical verification solution has been deployed on Samsung's SAFE Cloud Design Platform (SAFE-CDP). This collaboration enables designers targeting Samsung Foundry advanced process nodes to achieve significant compute resource savings of up to 30 percent and faster signoff. \nMutual customers of Synopsys and Samsung Foundry can leverage IC Validator and Samsung Foundry process technology on the SAFE CDP platform, powered by the high-performance computing (HPC) resources from Rescale and Microsoft Azure. IC Validator, an integral part of the Synopsys Fusion Design Platform™ and Custom Design Platform™, delivers advanced distributed processing and elastic CPU technologies to accelerate physical verification closure, drastically increasing productivity with the highest accuracy on Samsung advanced process technology.\n\"Turnaround time for physical verification has become critical at advanced nodes and our mutual customers need a cloud-based solution to accelerate physical verification productivity and overall design closure,\" said Sangyun Kim, vice president of Foundry Design Technology Team at Samsung Electronics. \"Synopsys IC Validator is optimized for on-demand physical signoff on Samsung SAFE Cloud Design platform, delivering significantly improved turnaround time and efficient resource usage.\" \n\"Rescale is proud to provide the HPC infrastructure that powers the SAFE platform for fabless design in the cloud,\" said Joris Poort, CEO of Rescale. \"We share Samsung's vision that the cloud can accelerate product innovation and provide superior usability and economics across so many EDA workflows, and we're very excited to see that Synopsys brought its leading physical verification solution to Samsung SAFE, giving designers an on-...