Synopsys, TSMC and Microsoft have delivered a timing signoff flow for use in the cloud.

This extensive, multi-month collaboration among the three industry partners speeds up the path to signoff  SoCs.

The flow improves throughput using Synopsys PrimeTime  static timing analysis and StarRC parasitic extraction on the Microsoft Azure platform.

“With increasing design complexity due to advanced process technologies, larger library size, and higher number of operating conditions to analyze, turnaround time for the design signoff has become critical,” says TSMC’s Suk Lee, “utilising a cloud platform offers a great way to accelerate signoff significantly and will fundamentally influence silicon design. TSMC is the first foundry to collaborate with design ecosystem partners and cloud providers to enable design in the cloud. Working with Microsoft and Synopsys, our cloud alliance has demonstrated remarkable throughput improvement and scalability of timing signoff and offers a flexible, secure and efficient way for our mutual customers to accelerate time to market for their SoCs.”