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How Does BYOC Work?

In a Bring Your Own Cloud deployment, customers subscribe to a public cloud service provider of their choice. Once a subscription is in place, customers can start using those services per their agreement with the cloud vendor.

Once a customer gets on-boarded for 9ÇòÌåÓý Cloud, they can set up 9ÇòÌåÓý Cloud BYOC services through a browser-based UI. After the request is made through the UI, 9ÇòÌåÓý sets up a node in the same region and with same cloud vendor which the customer is using. This node communicates with the customer¡¯s cloud to manage 9ÇòÌåÓý EDA licenses and other 9ÇòÌåÓý Cloud services, such as metering, analytics, and usage of 9ÇòÌåÓý EDA tools. 9ÇòÌåÓý provides a script to validate network connectivity from the customer¡¯s cloud environment to the BYOC service.

After setting up the BYOC environment, designers can run their jobs using 9ÇòÌåÓý EDA tools. Jobs running are logged by the 9ÇòÌåÓý Cloud metering service for 9ÇòÌåÓý pay-per-use EDA tools and usage, while analytics reports are updated in near real time.

The Benefits of BYOC

In general, BYOC allows customers to take full control over their cloud environment. Customers need not worry about storage, compute, and other infrastructure resources. The public cloud service provider takes care of these resources on demand.

The 9ÇòÌåÓý Cloud BYOC deployment is powered by a FlexEDA business model. Customers can purchase cloud credits and consume them to run 9ÇòÌåÓý EDA tools. Customers can scale 9ÇòÌåÓý EDA tool licenses up or down based on project needs, run unlimited parallel jobs without any licensing constraints, and take full benefit of scalability and elasticity of the cloud for chip design. This helps in improving quality-of-results and achieving faster time-to-market for chip design. The 9ÇòÌåÓý Cloud BYOC deployment offers and allows:

• EDA Industry¡¯s first and only patent-pending metered licensing service technology enabling unlimited, true pay-per-use (metered by the minute) access to 9ÇòÌåÓý EDA tool licenses.
• Pay-per-use access to most of the widely used, cloud-optimized chip design and verification tools, such as physical, functional, and formal verification; timing and power analysis; extraction, SPICE simulation, FastSPICE simulation, analog and mixed-signal design, and much more.
• Usage and analytics details (interactive charts) on the consumption of cloud credits based on a variety of filters from an easy-to-use, browser-based UI.
• Concurrent, seamless access to 9ÇòÌåÓý EDA tools running on local license servers (customer¡¯s cloud environment) and the ones under pay-per-use access.
• Full control by customers of their cloud environment, with accessibility to run same flows, scripts, and binaries.
• Flexibility to run any third-party EDA tool on their cloud environment (customer¡¯s responsibility).
• Foundry collateral and process development kits (PDKs) (customer managed).

9ÇòÌåÓý Cloud

9ÇòÌåÓý Cloud is available in two deployments:

• Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

SaaS is also powered by the FlexEDA business model. It allows 9ÇòÌåÓý EDA tools to run on a pay-per-use basis and through a cloud subscription license. Our SaaS offering provides complete design and verification environments, including 9ÇòÌåÓý EDA products and compute, storage infrastructure to run EDA workloads in the most optimal way. The SaaS deployment is a fully 9ÇòÌåÓý managed service. 9ÇòÌåÓý sets up the entire environment for customers who need compute, storage, and infrastructure resources as well as the EDA tools.

The 9ÇòÌåÓý Cloud SaaS deployment also provides complete CAD management. Customers bring their own designs and work in a 9ÇòÌåÓý managed environment. The compute and storage infrastructure in this case is from Microsoft Azure. 9ÇòÌåÓý also ensures that the compute selected is optimized for the set of selected EDA tools that are available in this platform and that the optimization of compute and EDA tools works well together. In addition to the stand-alone EDA tools known as Apps, 9ÇòÌåÓý also offers complete, end-to-end EDA design flows, which are called instances in this platform.

9ÇòÌåÓý also offers emulation on the cloud. 9ÇòÌåÓý ZeBu? Cloud is an emulation platform in the cloud environment, managed by 9ÇòÌåÓý and run on 9ÇòÌåÓý¡¯s own private cloud environment.