The Industry's First Multi-Vendor
Environment of EDA, IP, and Foundry Solutions on the Synopsys Cloud
Platform Significantly Accelerates Chip Development
Highlights:
- Synopsys Cloud OpenLink program delivers ultimate optionality,
allowing designers to efficiently access multi-vendor solutions in
the Synopsys Cloud environment.
- Enables highly secure customer entitlements and seamless access
to ecosystem partner solutions through an open application
programming interface (API).
- Available immediately to use with proven workflows for Ansys,
GlobalFoundries, Keysight Technologies, and Microsoft on Synopsys
Cloud.
- Chip design ecosystem vendors are invited to join the Synopsys
Cloud OpenLink program.
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 31,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys,
Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced the launch of its new
Synopsys Cloud OpenLink program to foster semiconductor
industry interoperability through an open cloud environment. The
first of its kind program enables chip designers to seamlessly
access third-party electronic design automation (EDA) tools and IP
in the Synopsys Cloud environment. As part of this initiative,
Synopsys is releasing an application programming interface (API)
specification that Synopsys Cloud OpenLink program members can
use to deploy system-level integration with a highly secure and
reliable transfer of entitlements to Synopsys Cloud. This offers
mutuals customers an end-to-end SoC design environment with
efficient access to EDA solutions, IP, and compute of their
choice.
Faster, Easier Access to Multi-Vendor EDA Tools and IP in the
Cloud
Chip designers commonly use EDA tools, IP, and foundry
collateral from multiple sources. The Synopsys Cloud OpenLink
program helps eliminate the need for design teams to engage in
time-consuming and labor-intensive handling of licensing and
deployment details across EDA, IP, and foundry vendors, by
providing quick and easy access to these elements. In addition, the
Synopsys Cloud OpenLink API helps ensure a 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."
Since its launch in March 2022,
Synopsys Cloud has experienced strong customer adoption with
multiple successful tape-outs and several customers in
production. Synopsys Cloud takes EDA to new heights, combining
the availability of advanced compute and storage infrastructure
with unlimited access to EDA software licenses on-demand so design
engineers can focus on what they do best – designing chips, faster.
Delivering cloud-native EDA tools and pre-optimized hardware
platforms, an extremely flexible business model (Synopsys FlexEDA),
and a modern customer experience, Synopsys has reimagined the
future of chip design utilizing the cloud.
Availability
The Synopsys Cloud OpenLink program is
available now for chip design ecosystem vendors to join. To request
information about becoming a member, please visit the Synopsys
Cloud OpenLink program web page.
Additional Resources
- Synopsys Cloud browser-based design environment web page
- Synopsys Cloud initial announcement, March 2022: Synopsys Launches Industry's First
Broad-Scale Cloud SaaS Solution to Transform Chip Development
Landscape
About Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is the Silicon to Software™ partner
for innovative companies developing the electronic products and
software applications we rely on every day. As an S&P 500
company, Synopsys has a long history of being a global leader in
electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP and offers
the industry's broadest portfolio of application security testing
tools and services. Whether you're a system-on-chip (SoC) designer
creating advanced semiconductors, or a software developer writing
more secure, high-quality code, Synopsys has the solutions needed
to deliver innovative products. Learn more at
www.synopsys.com.
Editorial Contact:
Kelli Wheeler
Synopsys, Inc.
(518) 248-0780
kelliw@synopsys.com
corp-pr@synopsys.com
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