Mastering AI Chip Complexity
Explore challenges and solutions in AI chip development
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Overview
HCLTech is a global technology leader at the forefront of digital transformation, engineering, and cutting-edge software products and services. Headquartered in Noida, India, with over 224,000 employees across 60 countries, HCLTech delivers industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud, AI, and software. The company serves major verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. In 2023, HCLTech reported consolidated revenues of $13.1 billion.
"HCLTech has been working on several turnkey projects based on both Arm and platforms based on RISC-V where Synopsys EDA tools and Synopsys IP are leveraged. Synopsys sales, technical support, and R&D teams worked together on the projects to help us deliver high-quality results for our clients."
Ravi Kumar Chirugudu
|Senior Vice President of the Semiconductor Division, HCLTech
Challenges
- Navigating the Semiconductor Landscape: The escalating demand for customized silicon solutions presents the semiconductor industry with unprecedented challenges.
- Infrastructure Deployment: Long set-up times for EDA environments with limited capacity and scalability.
- Performance and Productivity Bottlenecks: Inability to leverage leading-edge infrastructure quickly.
- License Management Overhead: Lost time and productivity in deploying and managing license servers.
Solution
HCLTech collaborated with Synopsys to accelerate the development of complex silicon solutions by leveraging Synopsys Cloud deployment. This provided a seamless, browser-based SoC design experience, minimizing integration risk and time-to-market while delivering high-quality, silicon-proven IP to clients.
- Synopsys Cloud: Offers unparalleled flexibility and on-demand access to EDA tools, accelerating design delivery and ensuring SoC projects are completed on schedule.
- FlexEDA Licensing Model: Provides budget control with a pay-per-use approach, making it cost-effective for design teams.
- On-Demand Computing: Facilitates better designs faster, enabling more iterations, enhanced quality, and reduced operating costs.
Results
The collaboration between HCLTech and Synopsys delivered transformative outcomes, unlocking operational excellence and efficiency:
- Rapid Production Environment Setup: Achieved a production-ready environment in just two days.
- Accelerated Time to Results: Enabled more iterations and improved design quality.
- Cost-Effective Operations: Utilized on-demand computing and unlimited pay-per-use EDA software access.
- Access to Latest Resources: Leveraged the latest compute resources and standardized EDA flows.
- Streamlined License Management: Provided end-to-end license and user management through built-in CAD/IT controls.
