Electronic Design in the Cloud
Dr. Raul Camposano, CEO, Nimbic
Executive Summary
Computing is moving to the Cloud. So will design of electronic systems. The Cloud is shifting the computing paradigm once again. Simply put, large-scale commodity computing (millions of servers) delivered through the Internet are better than small compute centers, regarding virtually every criteria: Cost, scalability/performance, availability of service, utilization, security, provisioning, ease of use/maintenance, need for qualified IT personnel, etc. The cloud enables delivery of hosted software, platforms and infrastructure as a service.
The advantages of the cloud for designing integrated circuits, packages and boards are obvious. Imagine designing in a server farm, having access to a virtually unlimited number of computers, being able to run as many parallel jobs as necessary, provisioning new servers in minutes, exploiting parallelism in tools to get your jobs done with minimum turn around time. No need to purchase computers or tools upfront, installing them, maintaining them. All you need is an Internet connection. And you pay just for what you use, as you go.
This paper explores design in the cloud, in particular 3D electromagnetic field solving which happens to be a particularly good match for the cloud. We focus on the advantages of our solution that are difficult to implement in a traditional enterprise compute center setting. Design in the cloud is still largely a vision, but a new generation of design technology, partly written from the ground up, with the cloud and parallelism in mind, will emerge. Computing is moving to the Cloud. So will design of electronic systems.
Try nCloud
