EDA chip design solution based on AMD epyc server

As the core of semiconductor industry , The complexity of chip technology , The industrial structure is highly specialized . With the rapid expansion of industrial scale , Industrial competition intensifies , The division mode is further refined . At present, the industry chain of chip market is ：IC Design and development 、IC Manufacturing and IC Three key links such as packaging and testing , Interlocking , And each button should reach the peak of manufacturing precision .

According to the statistics of China Semiconductor Industry Association ,2020 year 1-9 The sales volume of China's integrated circuit industry was 5905.8 One hundred million yuan , Year-on-year growth 16.9%. among , The design industry grew year-on-year 24.1%, sales 2634.2 One hundred million yuan , The manufacturing industry grew year-on-year 18.2%, Sales 1560.6 One hundred million yuan ; The packaging and testing industry grew year-on-year 6.5%, sales 1711 One hundred million yuan ; Obviously chip IC Design accounts for the highest proportion of sales of the three industries , The fastest growing industry .

Among the key sections of the three rings ,IC Design is at the upstream of the industrial chain , Its core is EDA（Electronic Design Automation, Electronic design automation ）,EDA It is the source of the capacity and performance of the integrated circuit industry , From simulation 、 Integrated into the layout , From front end to back end , From analog to digital to hybrid design , And the following process manufacturing and so on ,EDA covers IC Design 、 wiring 、 All aspects of verification and simulation .

From the perspective of the global technology industry cycle , Currently in 5G The night before the application cycle , The Internet of things , Artificial intelligence and virtual / New opportunities in the field of augmented reality benefit semiconductor companies at all stages of the entire IC production cycle . But it has stronger performance 、 More advanced technology EDA The design platform can also help customers design better chips and bring them to the market faster . Especially in smart phones 、 In the field of intelligent vehicles , The demand for innovation and high-end chips is growing , Design complexity and reliability requirements are also better than ever , More and more customers have higher and higher requirements , Led to EDA The importance of platforms and services has become increasingly prominent .

Chip design not only accounts for the highest proportion of sales in the whole semiconductor process , The fastest growing segment , It is also the longest cycle link in the whole field of semiconductor chip manufacturing ; The core goal pursued by the chip industry is “fast time to market” The game between capital and time to quickly occupy the market , Whoever can occupy the market first will get rich returns . But the average cost of a chip from design to market 24_{30 Months , Among them, R & D and design time 12}18 Months ,EDA The verification simulation in R & D and design accounts for about 7 About 50% of the research and development time ; as a result of EDA The workflow of chip design is a computing intensive load , Design simulation is an almost “ Infinite ” Simulation space : As the number of registers and storage elements in the device increases , Simulating the function of semiconductors is a difficult problem , There may be several designs of large-scale systems on chip 10 100 million transistors , A large number of states need to be verified . therefore , Designers use a variety of simulation techniques to maximize coverage and ensure the correct realization of the expected functions .

therefore EDA Chip design customers often need to face the following huge business challenges ：

Need a lot of support to design software tools ; More and more design tasks need to be delivered faster ; Need higher quality 、 Efficient computing storage cluster support , This leads to EDA Users need to re evaluate what kind of server / The storage design and processor architecture are the best .

Product solution introduction

EDA Recommended platform selection for designing computing processors ：

Considering a lot of EDA Software tools follow CPU Core data billing , High frequency processors can improve computing performance while , Reduce the cost of software .

EDA stay IT Infrastructure design usually tends to use a low number of cores , High frequency CPU, This means that they can run more tasks every day on each rack .

EDA Chip design software is used for function ( Numbers ) Many of the most commonly used tools for simulation are single threaded , And prefer to use high dominant frequency and large L3 The cache CPU.

AMD EPYC The processor is in EDA Excellent support in the workload area

• More per core L3 cache
• Higher process technology
• Higher main frequency and Rui frequency

be used for EDA Chip design simulation (SPICE), Each core FP Floating point performance is more conducive to performance reference AMD EPYC The processor is the best choice compared with its peers . After testing , Used AMD EPYC 7002 and 7003 Processor on the new platform of the processor SPECrate 2017_fp Ability comparison Intel Xeon The performance of processors has been improved , Fully demonstrate AMD EPYC The powerful processing power of the processor core and its I/O Performance improvement …

Customer revenue

example ： A customer uses EPYC Xiaolong series processor EDA Chip design solutions , Compared with existing platform servers , The test data shows that the computing node is simulating 、 Better computing performance in integrated task processing scenarios ：

We know that , In the whole chip design process ,EDA Link is the most important work . If the design and development personnel are the beginning of a chip axis , that EDA The computing platform determines the dimension of the chip design process , IT Infrastructure platform is the ultimate fast 、 Effectively become the top priority in the establishment of chip design and R & D structure ！

AMD EPYC Solutions can help EDA Rapid expansion of platform performance , Make chip design more efficient 、 intelligence . And carrying AMD Xinhua III of the platform H3C UniServer R4950 G5 Server built in FIST and HDM And other management tools and performance optimization technology can be refined to the same system , Different CPU Operation scenarios have their own optimization templates , Can be in CPU The core obtains more stable performance output , in the light of EDA Calculation provides BIOS Tuning The optimization scheme can greatly reduce EDA Calculation time of each process . At the same time, Xinhua III provides end-to-end EDA Solution , Include CPU/GPU The server 、 High performance storage systems 、 High speed switching network 、 Job scheduling system 、 Data backup protection 、 Delivery of overall solutions including remote virtualization access and cluster construction , Finally, realize the integrated construction EDA Infrastructure .