PITTSBURGH, July 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --
Key Highlights
- Ansys delivers its semiconductor simulation solution, Ansys
Power Library (APL), to the Arm Neoverse architecture to support
development on Amazon Web Service's (AWS) Graviton2 processors
- This collaboration lays the foundation for deploying more of
Ansys' comprehensive semiconductor simulation portfolio on current
and future Arm architectures
Together with Arm, Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) is providing
state-of-the-art simulation solutions for AWS Graviton2
processors — empowering Ansys customers with more affordable
access to Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing resources. The
collaboration marks the first availability of Ansys' electronic
design automation (EDA) semiconductor simulation solutions on the
Arm Neoverse™ architecture, empowering engineering teams
to improve design efficiency and ensure optimum chip
performance.
Complex simulations harness thousands of cores in the cloud over
multiple days, which can be a significant part of product
development costs. To achieve better price/performance and increase
team-wide efficiency in the cloud, engineers require a
cost-effective solution to work faster and more efficiently.
Beginning with Ansys' APL characterization tool, Ansys will offer
more of its semiconductor analysis software product suite,
supporting the Arm Neoverse architecture that is used by AWS
Graviton2-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances.
Arm engineers use APL and thousands of cores to characterize
design libraries and calculate chip power and reliability —
substantially enhancing workload efficiency and ensuring chips will
work optimally at mandated frequencies.
"We designed Arm Neoverse to deliver the performance and
efficiency required for workloads in cloud environments," said
Philippe Moyer, vice president of
Design Enablement, Physical Design Group at Arm. "By collaborating
with Ansys and AWS to make APL available for the Arm architecture,
we are continuing to enable the EDA ecosystem on Arm, ensuring
Ansys' semiconductor tools portfolio runs effectively on optimized
hardware."
The deployment of Ansys' APL characterization tool on Arm
Neoverse affordably expedites the development and verification of
technology solutions for Ansys customers on AWS.
"This port makes the Arm architecture and AWS more attractive to
chip design customers, empowering them to improve productivity and
cost savings across their organizations," said John Lee, vice president and general manager at
Ansys. "Access to cloud computing has become vital to our customers
as their chip designs keep getting bigger. By making more of Ansys'
semiconductor simulation portfolio available on this new platform,
we give our customers broader access to the cloud."
The availability of Ansys products on Amazon EC2 provides Arm
engineers and AWS customers the option to lower their cloud
computing expenses. The Graviton2 processor built on the Arm
Neoverse architecture delivers up to 40% better price performance
over comparable current generation instances for a wide variety of
workloads.
"Our customers are always looking for the best price/performance
option to run their applications in the cloud," said Barry Bolding, director of HPC GTM at AWS. "With
AWS Graviton2-powered EC2 instances, we are delivering a powerful
solution that's ideal for compute-intensive, high-performance
computing applications, which makes the cloud accessible to more
customers."
About Ansys
If you've ever seen a rocket launch, flown on an airplane,
driven a car, used a computer, touched a mobile device, crossed a
bridge, or put on wearable technology, chances are you've used a
product where Ansys software played a critical role in its
creation. Ansys is the global leader in engineering simulation.
Through our strategy of Pervasive Engineering Simulation, we help
the world's most innovative companies deliver radically better
products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest
portfolio of engineering simulation software, we help them solve
the most complex design challenges and create products limited only
by imagination. Founded in 1970, Ansys is headquartered south of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Visit www.ansys.com for more information.
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