Synopsys Cloud: The Power of Automated License Management

In today’s semiconductor landscape, time-to-market is everything. In the pursuit of meeting tight schedules, chip design houses constantly seek the right engineering expertise, EDA solutions, IP, and compute resources to optimize their workflows, boost engineering productivity, and streamline operations. A key aspect of running EDA workloads efficiently is acquiring/managing EDA licenses and maintaining license servers. In this blog, we’ll focus on this very crucial aspect.

Synopsys Cloud provides hassle-free license management and addresses the challenges stated above for our customers in three ways:

1.      License management

On the Synopsys Cloud platform, license management is completely automated. It takes the burden of dealing with the intricacies of license management off chip design teams, whether they’re running EDA tools on:

a.      The Synopsys-managed, EDA-optimized SaaS cloud platform, OR

b.      Their own cloud environment from any of the supported Cloud Service Providers (CSP), OR

c.       On-prem compute data centers or a private cloud

Additional licenses purchased on the platform, whether for a fixed term or in a pay-per-use
model (explained later), are automatically installed and activated, and available to use instantly. This eCommerce aspect of the platform is fully embraced by current users of the platform. It eliminates the delays incurred in manually obtaining license keys and restarting the license server, thereby ensuring zero downtime for engineers and no loss of productivity.

Synopsys Cloud offloads the complexity of maintaining license servers in a fast, scalable, and fully automated way, allowing chip designers to focus on their primary tasks. Summarizing the benefits discussed, Synopsys Cloud for license server management can:

1.      Save time that is spent on acquiring licenses and maintaining license server infrastructure

2.      Provide virtually infinite license scalability by instant access to thousands of EDA tool licenses at the click of a button

3.      Enable revolutionary EDA flows through a true FlexEDA pay-per-use model

Synopsys is the industry’s largest provider of electronic design automation (EDA) technology used in the design and verification of semiconductor devices, or chips. With Synopsys Cloud, we’re taking EDA to new heights, combining the availability of advanced compute and storage infrastructure with unlimited access to EDA software licenses on-demand so you can focus on what you do best – designing chips, faster. Delivering cloud-native EDA tools and pre-optimized hardware platforms, an extremely flexible business model, and a modern customer experience, Synopsys has reimagined the future of chip design on the cloud, without disrupting proven workflows.

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