Breakthroughs in EDA, Women’s History Month, and the Case for Cloud Computing: The Synopsys March Blog Roundup
By: Editorial Team
We are looking back on some of our top blogs for the month of March. In today’s era of Smart Everything, the chip design process has taken center stage as the catalyst of innovation.
From adopting cloud computing to optimizing EDA workloads, our experienced thought leaders covered numerous timely topics in the semiconductor industry. Dive deeper to learn about recent chip design innovations, women leaders making their mark in tech, and what to expect next from cloud-based EDA tools.
While Moore’s law has continued to slow down, the demand for faster compute-intensive chips has steadily increased, leading to a bottleneck in the development of large designs. This workload limit was the genesis for AMD and Synopsys’ collaboration that leverages the latest 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors with AMD 3D V-Cache™ technology. Synopsys’ broad portfolio of EDA solutions for AMD EPYC processors now gives customers increased performance, better energy efficiency, and lower total cost of ownership to meet intense computing demands and scale performance.
2. Q&A with Radhika Shankar, Group Director, Customer Success, on Having It All
We sat down with Radhika Shankar, group director of Applications Engineering with the Synopsys Customer Success Group, for an in-depth interview on her journey to the tech world. On a path far from a straight line, Radhika left behind a potential dance career to explore her love of mathematics and found a passion for engineering. Eventually finding her way to Synopsys, Radhika talks about her role as the executive council representative for Synopsys’ Inclusion & Diversity (I&D) team and advocating for returnships and internships to bring more diverse talent to the company.
3. The Outlook for Chip Design in the Cloud — Clear Skies with a Warming Trend
While it’s undeniable that cloud computing will take over as the primary IT infrastructure, it’s harder to determine exactly when that will happen. From personal finances, photos, to your entire social media footprint, nearly every part of our lives is hosted on a public computing platform. In this blog, Senior Director Mike Gianfagna makes a case for the migration of chip design in the cloud, asserting that on-premises data centers are archaic and that it is indeed possible to move to a public cloud computing data center reliably, predictably, and cost-effectively.
4. Cloud-Based Chip Design Gets a Flexibility Boost with EDA’s First Broad-Scale SaaS Model
Sandeep Mehndiratta, vice president, Synopsys Cloud Solutions, delves into why adopting cloud computing for peak workloads leads to faster time to results, enhanced quality of results, and better cost of results — without having to invest in costly infrastructure. While implementation of the cloud provided a way to solve the problem of compute resource, tool licensing remained a hitch for customers. To alleviate this challenge, we launched Synopsys Cloud, deployed on the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. With this platform, designers have access to our cloud-optimized design and verification products with pre-optimized compute capacity all through a flexible pay-for-play model.
5. Q&A with Julie Nelson, Senior Employee Communications Specialist, on the Power of Yes
As a part of a Q&A series honoring Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, we recently spoke with Julie Nelson, senior employee communications specialist, and valued member of the Synopsys Inclusion & Diversity (I&D) Team where she manages all internal I&D communications at a global level. After receiving a degree in engineering systems, Julie thought her destiny was to be a database designer. However, a love of meeting new people, training employees, and telling stories led her to technical writing and eventually a career in internal communications.
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