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EDA Personal Cluster Workstation

 

As design complexities continue to increase, simulation becomes more and more essential and central part of the design and verification process. Last two years has witnessed a strong move to Linux based computing platforms in the (EDA) Electronic Design Automation area which provided engineers with new level of performance at lower cost of ownership. Today with growing customers demand, most of EDA vendors have embraced Linux and ported their application to Linux operating system on either 32 or 64 bits PC based platforms.

Furthermore with reduction if IT resources, electronic designers needed extra flexibility and short turn around for setting-up efficient computing environment that allow them to address the challenge of new chips and system designs. The time is takes for a design and verification team to express a computing need, to the time a conventional and shared compute farm is approved, purchased and installed is just too long.

Today Cluster In Motion is introducing a new breed of EDA cluster workstations that combines in one box the power of a high end graphical workstation and the compute power of a dedicated linux cluster to perform any electronic design and verification task from system level simulations all the way down to place and route and physical verification with unmatched performance and cost of ownership.

 

SystemC Acceleration

Reduce your SC Compilation time and distribute your SystemC simulations

Today, SystemC is gaining great momentum in ESL (Electronic System Level) and EDA (Electronic Design Automation) in different areas ranging from early performance and architecture analysis all the way down to SOC design and verification.

One of the few inconvenients of SystemC is the compilation time of large designs where every minor SystemC code change can lead to the re-compilation and linking of thousand of C++ lines that can take up to 30 minutes of compile time. This can be very frustrating especially at the end of the project when the user is dealing with large modules, furthermore this frustration is augmented with traditional project deadline pressure.

This is why setting the right computing environment for SystemC users is important to alleviate these frustrations and pressure to allow the designers to focus their energy on the problem at hand. The ClusterStation is an ideal computing platform for SystemC where Compilation of hundreds of SystemC files can be distributed and compiled in parallel reducing this tedious and repetitive task when modeling their systems. Furthermore, SystemC simulations tend to be complex especially when modeling modern SOC (System-On-Chip) with several cores. The ClusterStation with its compute nodes can accommodate at the same time and accelerate several simulations either of the same design with different parameters or of alternatives designs. For heavy and long simulations, the user would be able to execute them on separate compute nodes while he is compiling and linking his next simulation on the head node of the ClusterStation. This way the compilation task will not be slown down by a heavy simulation process on the same node as experienced by users of conventional mono-processor workstations.