Tag: AWS Semiconductor

Semiconductor chip design is a compute intensive, expensive process. Exostellar is an AWS partner that developed Exostellar Infrastructure Optimizer to allow chip designers to minimize the risk of using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances for long-running, stateful electronic design automation (EDA) jobs. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances can provide up to 90% discounts compared to On-Demand pricing. […]

The semiconductor industry continues to witness rapid technological advancements, requiring design workflows to evolve for better performance, efficiency, and scalability. A major milestone in this evolution is the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) certification of Siemens electronic design automation (EDA) tools on the AWS Cloud, which brings profound benefits to semiconductor designers and engineers across […]

The generative artificial intelligence (AI) transformation is driving unprecedented demand for chips that are required to train and run increasingly sophisticated machine learning (ML) models. In response, the semiconductor industry is designing advanced node chips that are more complex and have more transistors than ever before. For instance, the latest Nvidia Blackwell 4nm chip contains […]

The semiconductor industry is the backbone of technological innovation, powering everything from smartphones to cloud computing infrastructure. However, semiconductor manufacturers face mounting pressures to deliver better performance, efficiency, and reliability at lower costs. Key semiconductor industry challenges include: Design complexity and longer development cycles: Advanced semiconductor designs are incredibly complex, leading to prolonged design verification […]

Introduction With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), enterprises aim to efficiently integrate, configure, monitor, and manage numerous edge devices. These devices and server systems must be highly secure and reliable, as they often become targets for hackers. Regular reviews, security encryption updates, and robust authentication and authorization mechanisms are necessary to […]

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools are critical for designing silicon chips. In the cloud, pay-per-use mechanisms are the norm, but this traditionally isn’t the case for EDA licensing which can limit organizations’ ability to scale EDA on AWS. Synopsys Cloud Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) with FlexEDA is a groundbreaking solution that addresses this need. […]

Amazon is also a fabless semiconductor company. Several tapeouts are completed every year that result in products like Kindle, FireTV, Echo, etc. Amazon Web Services (AWS) does its inhouse semiconductor design for its data center operations through its internal team at Annapurna Labs. AWS Graviton, an ARM based CPU as well as AWS Trainium and […]

Manufacturing semiconductor devices using advanced nodes have many challenges, but perhaps none is more directly linked to the company’s profitability and competitive position than yield. Yield improvements directly reduce the cost of manufacturing a single die while also helping the company amortize the development costs across more dies. There are great commercial products helping customers […]

In 2021, NXP selected AWS as its preferred cloud partner to migrate the vast majority of its silicon design workloads from NXP data centers to AWS. The migration is well underway, and a number of teams have already taped out projects in their AWS cloud environment. In this blog post, we share more about NXP’s […]

Introduction Chip designs are increasing in complexity and size, which has resulted in additional transistors driving a need for greater processing power and memory. Greater silicon complexity makes physical verification with electronic design automation (EDA) applications more essential as any delays close to tape-out significantly impact production timelines. Silicon designers now require increased CPU and […]