Voltus Voice: Voltus Takes to the Cloud for Next-Level Scalability

Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution is a power integrity and analysis signoff solution that is integrated with Cadence's full suite of design implementation and signoff tools to deliver the industry's fastest design closure flow. The aim of this blog series is to broadcast the voices of different experts on how design engineers can effectively use the diverse Voltus technologies to achieve high performance, accuracy, and capacity for next-gen chip designs.

In today's rapidly evolving landscape of electronic design, complexity and data requirements are increasing at an unprecedented pace. As a result, the industry is on the edge of a revolutionary change, embracing the vast potential of cloud computing. This shift isn't just a trend—it's a necessity. Picture this: cloud computing as a car rental service, granting you the luxury of driving the latest models without the financial burden of ownership and maintenance. Just as you can enjoy the sleekness of a new car without worrying about depreciation, cloud computing offers access to thousands of cores in the cloud without the hassle of managing physical servers. The cloud provides a smooth and efficient solution, boosting productivity, ensuring strong security, and offering unbound scalability.

By leveraging the infrastructure of top-tier cloud providers, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, the Cadence Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution can dynamically scale resources based on the complexity and size of the SoC designs. This ensures that the necessary computational power is always available, leading to faster processing times and more efficient use of resources.

Here's an illustration of the cloud architecture powering the Voltus solution:

Discover how the Voltus solution harnesses the power of cloud computing for advanced EM-IR analysis through these two insightful blogs.

Supercharge Cadence Voltus Power Integrity with AWS ParallelCluster

The architecture of the Voltus solution is built for modern cloud environments, offering a highly distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant framework. These features make the Voltus solution an excellent candidate for deployment on AWS ParallelCluster, an infrastructure designed for high-performance computing (HPC) at scale. In this blog, we’ll dive into the details of an internal benchmarking exercise that used Voltus on AWS ParallelCluster. This exercise showcases a reference setup optimized for running the Voltus workloads, highlighting the flexibility and resilience it provides. You’ll also see how deploying the Voltus solution on AWS offers cost and performance benefits, allowing teams to efficiently manage the intense computational demands of chip design.

Voltus and Azure—no power integrity challenge too big to solve

The flexibility provided by Microsoft Azure in managing variable compute demands makes it a great fit for design teams utilizing the Voltus solution. This is particularly beneficial during the chip design process where resource needs fluctuate. Early in the design cycle, compute requirements are relatively low, but as you approach signoff, demand can spike. Azure supports both hybrid and full-cloud models, enabling teams to scale as needed. In a hybrid setup, customers rely on their existing on-premises infrastructure, using the on-demand compute and storage capacity of Azure to handle peak workloads. In this blog, we’ll explore a case study covering both block and full chip runs using the Voltus solution on Azure. The results show impressive near-linear scalability in performance as CPU resources increase, offering a highly efficient way to manage compute costs throughout the design cycle.

From static/dynamic power analysis to EM-IR analysis to hierarchical analysis, the Voltus cloud solution lets you easily achieve faster turnaround times and improved signoff accuracy. As the Voltus solution embraces the transformative power of cloud computing, designers are empowered to swiftly innovate, design, and verify intricate systems on chips.

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About Voltus Voice

“Voltus Voice” showcases our product capabilities and features and how they empower engineers to meet time-to-market goals for the complex, advanced-node SoCs that are designed for next-gen smart devices. In this monthly blog series, we also share important news, developments, and updates from the Voltus space.