Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., San Jose, Calif., introduces the Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem (SAFE) cloud design platform for fabless customers, in collaboration with Rescale, a leader in high-performance computing applications in the cloud. The key highlight feature of Samsung foundry’s first SAFE cloud design platform is that it provides a virtual environment to design chips in the cloud. By accessing this platform through the cloud, customers can immediately start designing at anytime and anywhere.
To maximize design convenience, the SAFE cloud design platform supports a very secure design condition that has been verified with cloud companies. In addition, customers can utilize various electronic design automation tools offered by multiple vendors such as Ansys, Cadence, Mentor (a Siemens business), and Synopsys.
By adopting the cloud design platform, customers can reduce the burden of building their own server infrastructure, while flexibly utilizing additional computing power required for chip design and verification. Furthermore, they can take full advantage of Samsung’s diverse foundry ecosystem, which includes intellectual property, cloud, and design services offered by reputable partners.
Gaonchips, one of Samsung Foundry’s design solution partners, has already tested the SAFE cloud design platform on its 14nm automotive project. The company used Cadence’s Innovus Implementation System, and has successfully reduced its design run-time by 30 percent compared to current on-premises execution.
