Semiconductor companies are constantly innovating and designing chips that are increasing in complexity and diversity.
There is an unprecedented surge in the volume and variety of compute and storage platforms for design simulations. The existing on-prem high-performance computing (HPC) server farms are unable to meet these needs and require significant investments to upgrade and manage, resulting in considerable delays in innovation. A pragmatic alternative is to leverage cloud platforms that provide instantaneous access to high-end infrastructure and requisite tools on demand.
TCS NeurEDA is a secure, intelligent, and autonomous toolkit that is purpose-built to simplify scheduling, management, and orchestration of complex hybrid cloud electronic design automation (EDA) jobs. It acts as a holistic control system for a distributed hybrid server farm with a focused objective of optimizing total cost of ownership (TCO).
Continuously adding HPC servers to cater to the increased needs of EDA workloads is not a feasible approach.
Augmenting on-prem infrastructure resources with public cloud to accelerate design cycles is an efficient strategy in optimizing innovation budgets for semiconductor design teams. However, harnessing the abundance of infrastructure in this hybrid environment and managing resources with the cloud provider’s native tools in a secure and optimal way is arduous and needs a sophisticated solution.
NeurEDA provides a comprehensive toolkit that automates each step in EDA job management. This includes everything from migrating the necessary heavy design artifacts in a cost-effective manner to performing design-aware dimensioning of the infrastructure to optimize the overall cost. NeurEDA applies the standard IT-approved security practices automatically to every step so that both burst and pure-play cloud designs are secure. It orchestrates all aspects of EDA design management on a hybrid server farm, from setting up the required resources and licenses to performing design-aware job scheduling, offers an operational dashboard, and seamlessly stiches on-prem and public cloud platforms to a common fabric. The toolkit offers a suite of software services, enabling design teams to provide highly reliable, secure, and on-demand EDA engineering environments.
TCS NeurEDA accelerates semiconductor design innovation by leveraging the power of cloud and AI.
TCS NeurEDA includes:
TCS NeurEDA enables semiconductor firms to accelerate design time, decrease total cost of ownership, enable reuse of existing investments, and recommend the best-suited hyperscaler platform.
Accelerated design innovation: Automated functions and services accelerate design time by up to 40%.
Reduced TCO: Intelligent design-aware and budget-driven resource allocation reduces TCO by 30%.
Improved utilization: Advisor services help improve utilization of on-prem HPC infrastructure by up to 30%.
Resilient design environments: Event-driven autonomous job orchestration services to create and provide fully automated and highly available application-specific integrated circuit/system on a chip design environment.
Protected investments: The modular nature of NeurEDA enables reuse of existing investments such as licenses, on-prem server farm managers, and current public cloud partnerships.
Optimal hyperscaler recommendation: The intelligent cloud candidature assessment algorithms analyze critical EDA design and verification characteristics and recommend the best-suited hyperscaler platform.
NeurEDA is supported by TCS’ industry knowledge and broad-spectrum prowess in technical skills.
By partnering with TCS, our customers reap the following benefits:
Domain expertise: A very large-scale integration center of excellence that specializes in semiconductor design, verification, and validation provides differentiated product engineering services for the semiconductor industry.
HPC expertise: A dedicated center for advanced computing to develop solutions in HPC infrastructure tuning and optimization and high-performance data analytics. It enables efficient adoption of HPC techniques for various industry workloads.
Cloud expertise: Proven capabilities and intellectual property across cloud advisory and assessment, product development, adoption planning and execution, cloud security, and operations, along with strong contextual knowledge and experience across various industry domains.
Strategic alliances: Extensive partnerships with leading public cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure.
Industry recognition: TCS has been recognized as leader in semiconductor engineering services by leading industry analyst Everest Group.