Itility - Design Flow Optimizer (DFO) for EDA environments

Optimize your R&D - EDA workflows across on-premises and AWS cloud environments, delivering up to 40% cost savings, near-zero R&D wait times, and 80% resource utilization, enabling accelerated product releases with minimal failures.

Semiconductor R&D departments must balance time-to-market, cost, and failure rates, while cost contribute up to 15% of total product revenue. R&D design simulations use high-cost EDA tools and large amounts of expensive compute, competing for limited on-premises resources. Cloud solutions offer scalability and faster simulations but can lead to significant and potentially uncontrolled increase in cost of R&D design flows. The challenge is optimizing performance while controlling expenses.

Design Flow Optimizer (DFO) is a software solution deployed by Itility within your EDA environment. It supports R&D and IT teams to balance cost and performance for EDA workloads (like Synopsis and Cadence simulations and tape-outs) across on-premises and cloud environments. Leveraging advanced optimization algorithms, a GenAI agent for dialogs, and cost calculator using latest cost of cloud resources and EDA licenses. DFO enables intelligent resource allocation by analyzing and predicting project demand, actual consumption, costs, and simulation wait times perceived by R&D engineers.

DFO - Smart Optimization Strategy. The Design Flow Optimizer (DFO) enhances R&D design flows by focusing on four key areas:*

1. Aligning R&D supply and demand: Matches R&D project simulations with the best-fit resources on-prem or in cloud to provide maximum performance.
2. Optimal pricing model selection: Identify the best pricing model between on-premise, on-demand, spot and reserved for each R&D project, using simulation type, runtime and priorities.
3. Intelligent Scheduling: Selects the ideal time slots for simulations and schedules jobs for projects based on project priority, budgets and resource availability.
4. Cloud Resource Right-Sizing: Allocates the best-fit cloud resources for the demanded vs. actual used compute capacity per EDA simulation type, preventing waste and overspend.

Phase 1. Strategic Project Planning with DFO GenAI Assistant: Empower R&D executives with instant insights into project demand. Using our secure GenAI interface, they can quickly determine the optimal balance between speed and cost

Phase 2. Unified Platform Integration: Seamlessly merge on-premises and cloud environments into a flexible R&D design platform. This empowers teams to dynamically allocate EDA workloads (simulations, tape-outs) based on availability and demand.

Phase 3. Automated Optimization: Execute "what-if" scenarios driven by R&D executive constraints and project consumption data. Once chosen the best-fit scenario, DFO configures the scheduler accordingly.

• One time: Itility guided deployment of DFO in customer EDA environment
• Base product: Observability views of R&D projects’ demand and consumption for current design simulations
• Optional Feature 1: A GenAI based assistant that runs simulations and provides best-fit scenarios for cost and priorities
• Optional Feature 2: Add-on to the observability views of EDA license consumption and cost per R&D project
• Optional Feature 3: Automated reconfiguration of scheduler queues to optimally distribute scheduled EDA workloads

DFO's core functionality and data processing is delivered through CI/CD automation as a serverless platform based on AWS Glue, Athena and S3. DFO’s optional GenAI assistant is delivered through AWS Bedrock and CloudFront. This architecture removes dependencies on specific availability zones for consistent operation. Python code and packages are managed and deployed using AWS Lambda.

DFO Delivers Tangible Results DFO isn't just a solution; it's a strategic advantage that drives significant value for your R&D operations.

• Substantial Cost Savings: Reduce R&D project run rates up to 40% by optimizing resource allocation and eliminating unnecessary expenditures.
• Improve Productivity: Substantially reduce R&D engineering wait times, accelerating your design and verification cycles and boosting productivity.
• Maximized Resource Utilization: Achieve up to 80% utilization of compute and EDA licenses, ensuring proper alignment between R&D project demand and IT supply.
• Unparalleled Insight and Control: Gain complete visibility into your R&D costs and time-to-market. Make informed decisions and prioritize your product release timelines.

In essence, DFO provides the power to accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and maintain a competitive edge. It's not just about optimizing workflows; it's about optimizing your entire R&D potential.

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