In the highly competitive business of electronics design, getting to market quickly with the right amount of product is paramount. Engineers are under extreme pressure to design, test, and deliver results in tight timeframes, and with the complexity of modern techniques and technologies comes the difficulty of verifying and simulating significantly more complicated circuitry.

The challenges of operating efficiently and cost-effectively in such an environment, in order to ensure competitive success, are many. These challenges include:

• Tight timelines and processing bottlenecks
• Poor license utilization
• Massive requirements for compute capacity
• Low visibility into resource utilization

Univa's grid and cluster solutions allow companies to manage workloads across dedicated and non-dedicated enterprise resources. This enables previous investments in high-performance computing to be exploited along with aggregated power from existing workstations and desktops. With Univa, EDA professional can:

• Finish simulations and synthesis runs faster
• Optimize license utilization
• Improve designs
• Reduce or eliminate costs

Univa's solutions offer a proven way to maximize utilization of new and existing resources. Our price and performance is unmatched, and our products are up to 10x more affordable than similarly powered, dedicated high-performance solutions. Achieve maximum ROI on underutilized assets, speed time-to-market, and increase product quality today.

EDA companies are faced with a number of challenges, including tight timelines and processing bottlenecks, low license utilization, massive requirements for compute capacity, and low visibility into resource utilization. With Univa's grid and cluster solutions, these companies can manage workloads across dedicated and non-dedicated heterogeneous enterprise resources by exploiting previous investments in high-performance computing along with aggregated power from existing workstations and desktops.

Our EDA clients are leveraging grid and cluster solutions in the design cycle and within mainstream IT, delivering a range of benefits to:

• End Users – Engineers can boost productivity for key applications, streamline workflow, and collaborate more easily. In addition, easy access to archived best practices from common HPC job interface improves workflow and efficiency. Univa provides transparent operation while retaining end user autonomy – so the user stays in control but is less involved with the underlying IT infrastructure.
• IT Managers – With the centralized IT management enabled by Univa solutions, operational efficiency is enhanced and resource utilization is optimized. In addition, Univa solutions enable policy and SLA-based resource allocation, so application performance is assured. Univa solutions let companies optimize the overall IT budget through enhanced visibility into utilization patterns.
• Financial and Executive – With increased visibility into how hardware and applications are being utilized, companies can make better budget decisions. In addition, our solutions enable usage-based accounting so that accurate pay-per-use can be achieved.

Univa's grid and cluster solutions help EDA organizations reduce the time lapse from design concept to delivery with increased computational capacity and reduced management complexity.

In addition, Univa's alliances with key software vendors ensure that your most critical applications will operate at a highly increased rate of productivity.

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With Univa's proven technology for infrastructure optimization and management, EDA companies can accelerate design, reduce flaws and bring high-quality products to market faster.

Specific use cases include:

• Maximizing License Utilization and Application Performance
• Simplifying the Computing Environment
• Reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for the IT Infrastructure
• Increasing Operational Visibility

Maximizing License Utilization and Application Performance

In most EDA organizations, application license management and utilization is built around a static infrastructure, which prevents dynamic, flexible license usage. In addition, the infrastructure itself is being quickly commoditized and very cheap to acquire. However, the management of the infrastructure continues to be very expensive and is a significant contributor to the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). In this environment, optimizing application utilization can be difficult and costly.

With Univa, the computing infrastructure becomes completely transparent to the users. License utilization is optimized as the grid dynamically allocates applications to devices based on availability and other parameters. Application characteristics are continually monitored and infrastructure changes are initiated automatically, thereby reducing TCO and improving service levels. The resulting infrastructure is flexible, dynamic, and extremely cost-effective for the organization.

Simplifying the Computing Environment

Many design processes today are tied to applications running on a fixed, static IT infrastructure, which constrains usage of those applications in many ways. IT cannot respond quickly to changing business needs that require adjustments to the infrastructure – in fact, change management is a manual process that can take months to complete.

With Univa solutions, EDA organizations can streamline their workflow to make better use of existing resources. Our solutions abstract the complexities of the underlying environment away from the end user and provide the centralization, visibility and control to achieve a higher level of productivity.

Reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for the IT Infrastructure

From the design labs to the enterprise data centers, the complexity and heterogeneity of EDA IT organizations is growing. These facilities are costly to own and operate, whether used to support the corporate billing system or power verification runs.

With Univa solutions, companies can simplify the environment and drive out unnecessary costs, so that budget can be spent in more value-added areas of the design process.

Increasing Operational Visibility

For companies looking to justify HPC purchases and optimize budgeting, a lack of visibility into utilization rates means less informed decision-making. These companies typically own and operate large, diverse infrastructures that are growing in complexity, with silos of clusters and other HPC resources. In addition, the broad range of users and applications across multiple geographically dispersed sites adds to the complexity of the environment – and makes it more difficult to account for which resources are used when, how, and by whom. Thus, the ability to make accurate spending decisions is diminished.

With Univa's solutions, EDA companies have comprehensive visibility across disparate, broadly dispersed devices. Univa solutions enable enterprise-wide capacity and utilization analytics, so that companies can execute fact-based capacity planning, improve productivity through reallocated resources, optimize hardware and software spending, and make fully informed HPC strategy decisions.

In addition, Univa's alliances with key software providers ensure that your most critical applications can operate at a highly increased rate of productivity.