You are currently viewing SemiWiki as a guest which gives you limited access to the site. To view blog comments and experience other SemiWiki features you must be a registered member. Registration is fast, simple, and absolutely free so please, join our community today!

  • Runtime Design Automation RSS Feed

    RTDA at DAC: Scale to Millions of Jobs 

    by
    Paul McLellan
    Published on 05-10-2012 05:00 PM
    content/attachments/3702-rtdapic.jpg.html

    RTDA is all about enterprise level scalability. Their three main products all scale to be able to handle the most demanding needs of large companies with large farms of servers. Of course there are some new refinements too.

    LicenseMonitor can scale to 70,000 simultaneous checkouts with 1 billion checkout records in the database. There are ...
    Read More Read More

    Do you need more machines? Licenses? How can you find out? 

    by
    Paul McLellan
    Published on 04-26-2012 07:00 PM
    content/attachments/3503-rtd3.jpg.html

    Do you need more servers? Do you need more licenses? If you are kicking off a verification run of 10,000 jobs on 1,000 server cores then you are short of 9000 cores and 9000 licenses, but you'd be insane to rush out with a purchase order just on that basis. Maybe verification isn't even on the critical path for your design, in which case you may be better pulling some ...
    Read More Read More

    The Art of Flows, Part II 

    by
    Paul McLellan
    Published on 03-31-2012 01:00 PM
    content/attachments/3241-flow1.jpg.html

    Part I (here) looked at a bit of the history of scripting, makefiles and other approaches to more formally specify and institutionalize EDA design flows.

    The most sophisticated tool I know that looks at this issue is RTDA's FlowTracer.
    ...
    Read More Read More

    The Art of Flows, Part I 

    by
    Paul McLellan
    Published on 03-28-2012 11:00 PM  Number of Views: 1277 
    content/attachments/3237-aofcover.jpg.html

    These days, the flows that are used to build semiconductor designs are rightly regarded as part of the intellectual property of the company that developed and used them.

    But it didn't always used to be that way.
    ...
    Read More Read More

    No Semiconductor Design Cloud Strategy? Really? 

    by
    Andrea Casotto
    Published on 03-14-2012 04:00 PM
    content/attachments/3057-clearskiesaheadineda.jpg.html


    I ask my customers about their cloud strategy and they all tell me “none”. The main reason is a red herring: “The legal department will never allow our IP outside our walls”.

    Security issues on the cloud are largely solved, as proven by the fact that banks have no problem using external clouds. Behind the curtain, the real reason for a lack of ...
    Read More Read More 9 Comments

    Farm Management 

    by
    Paul McLellan
    Published on 03-01-2012 03:34 PM
    content/attachments/3023-rtda1.jpg.html

    Every so often I come across a new company in EDA or one of its neighboring domains, new to me anyway, and new to SemiWiki. One such company is RunTime Design Automation (RTDA). They provide a suite of tools for managing server farms (or internal clouds which seems to be the trendy buzzword du jour). Running a few EDA scripts on a few servers is something that is not too hard to do, but when you ...
    Read More Read More