{"id":7767,"date":"2022-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/accelerate-silicon-design-innovation-on-azure-with-synopsys-cloud"},"modified":"2025-06-18T00:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T07:56:08","slug":"accelerate-silicon-design-innovation-on-azure-with-synopsys-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/accelerate-silicon-design-innovation-on-azure-with-synopsys-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerate silicon design innovation on Azure with Synopsys Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Semiconductor and silicon technology are the basis of digital transformation happening everywhere, across industries and our daily lives, impacting the way we work, learn, and play. The continuous improvement in the performance and power of silicon has been key to enabling this innovation. Here at Microsoft, we\u2019ve empowered our long-standing partners in the semiconductor industry<\/a> to embrace Azure\u2019s cloud infrastructure and scale out electronic design automation (EDA). With a new EDA-optimized cloud environment running on Azure, the launch of Synopsys Cloud<\/a> marks a significant milestone for the industry by offering silicon design teams the ability to scale and accelerate their development cycles\u2014transforming chip design the way that the cloud transformed computing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Increasing flexibility and efficiency in silicon development on Azure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The collective rise in time-to-market pressure caused by the global chip shortage and increasing computational demands have caused chipmakers to seek more flexibility and efficiency in the silicon design process. Migrating chip design to Azure\u2019s optimized infrastructure helps address part of this equation by enabling critical design and verification workloads on the cloud\u2014resulting in faster time-to-results and better quality at a lower cost. With Synopsys Cloud built on Azure, chip designers will now also have access to a new pay-per-use model offering automated provisioning of infrastructure and EDA tools to address the growing demands of silicon design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This \u201cpay-as-you-go\u201d model is a software as a service (SaaS)-based approach that will reduce barriers for companies of all sizes while enabling greater innovation and value for customers and EDA vendors alike. Using the power of Azure\u2019s workload scaling and virtual machine (VM) selection capabilities, Synopsys Cloud customers will be able to optimize critical EDA workloads\u2014from reducing processing time on verification tasks to saving runtime and enabling faster design convergence on library characterization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expanding access to chip design on the cloud<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft has long been committed to helping companies of all sizes unlock more potential on the cloud. With its powerful chip design and verification tools running on Azure\u2019s trusted and comprehensive cloud platform, Synopsys is Microsoft\u2019s preferred partner for EDA on the cloud. Using Synopsys\u2019 solution, customers ranging from startups to large design enterprises benefit from simplified access to custom infrastructure for all their chip design needs\u2014helping them build silicon and tackle designs they previously could not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Innovation for wide-ranging impact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From intelligent scaling of EDA resources to using AI and machine learning models to transform design and resource management, silicon manufacturing has already seen vast improvements with the introduction of the cloud. The shift towards cloud-centric silicon design has enabled newfound access to compute, storage, and tooling resources. Ultimately, improved time-to-results, quality-of-results, and cost-of-results are just the beginning of what cloud-enabled EDA enhancements can offer. As design on the cloud becomes increasingly widespread, I look forward to seeing the silicon industry continuing to innovate towards new levels of ingenuity\u2014powered by the Microsoft Cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tune in to Synopsys\u2019 SNUG 2022<\/a> conference to watch a keynote by Dr. Aart de Geus, Chairman and co-CEO of Synopsys, including a fireside chat with Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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