Accelerate chip-design verification process by running Siemens EDA Calibre on AWS

The article describes a collaboration between AWS and Siemens EDA to accelerate the chip design verification process by running Siemens EDA Calibre on AWS.

Specifically, the article covers:

• The environment setup on AWS to run Calibre, including ParallelCluster, EC2 instances, EFS, and FSx file systems.
• Benchmark results for running Calibre nmDRC and nmLVS on a 5nm chip design, showing scalability and performance improvements with increased compute resources.
• Key findings and recommendations, such as using recent Calibre versions, reusable hierarchical databases, split rule decks, and selecting the appropriate number of cores.
• The conclusion highlights the benefits of using cloud computing for accelerating chip design cycles and the ability to run multiple verification flows in parallel.