IC Design and EDA

Accelerate Development

For IC design and EDA companies, meeting tight schedules for analysis, design and production directly impact company revenues.   With multiple design teams across many time zones, IP blocks are often shared making high concurrent access and synchronization an ongoing challenge.   New software tools and changing workflows have an unpredictable impact on the need for storage.

We've engineered the complexity out of storage to offer a storage platform that's simple to install, manage and scale.  Whether it's reducing verification run time by fifty percent on a 300M gate ASIC, accelerating development of next-generation 90 nm chips, or archiving project data, Isilon has proven solutions to meet the needs of IC Design and EDA companies.

The Isilon Scale-out NAS Platform helps reduce turn-around time on product development with storage that is highly scalable, high performance and simple to manage.

Cost Savings

A single namespace greatly simplifies reuse of scripts to run EDA tools and can save hours or days of setup for a new project.

Agility

Isilon scale-out storage provides high concurrent throughput for functional design and verification, high I/O performance for physical design and cost-effective storage for IP and design repositories. 

Simplicity

Scale capacity and/or performance without downtime of configuration changes to maintain scripts and tool flows across projects.

Performance

Isilon minimizes I/O wait time and maximizes processing throughput to accelerate project turn-around times and increase bandwidth to accommodate new business opportunities.

"Our business never stops and data loss is simply not an option. We need to replicate our chip design data at the speed of our business and with Isilon's unique implementation of SSDs we can do exactly that, at much less cost."  Mark Burrows, IT operations manager, ARM.