Helping the CSIR with Timing Closure

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Helping the CSIR with Timing Closure

I'd like to share a story which our customer has graciously allowed us to write about.

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is the leading R&D organization in South Africa, looking into areas like defense, communications and bioscience. The CSIR engineers are a great bunch of people--friendly and very good at what they do.

Recently they had a design that had trouble closing timing. To examine the critical paths and explore solutions on a large scale, they wanted to do a Placement seed sweep of values from 1 to 100. However, the deadline was encroaching and compute resources were limited.

Hence they use our Plunify platform to compile 400 different iterations of seeds and designs, completing the builds and analysis in slightly more than 1 day instead of a month (or more). Naturally all of us were very happy about the outcome! It's a honor to have been able to help.

"Engineers in South Africa uses a cloud platform developed in Singapore to crunch FPGA designs in datacenters around the globe in no time," that's still a little mind-boggling to me. Designs are really being concurrently worked on all over the map now.

Read more about the CSIR's experience here (http://www.plunify.com/downloads/CSIR_Plunify_success.pdf).

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