{"id":1608,"date":"2011-04-01T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T07:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/support.plunify.com\/en\/2011\/04\/01\/the-cloud-a-better-match-for-fpgas\/"},"modified":"2017-11-01T02:22:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T02:22:15","slug":"the-cloud-a-better-match-for-fpgas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/support.plunify.com\/en\/2011\/04\/01\/the-cloud-a-better-match-for-fpgas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cloud a better match for FPGAs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\">A few days ago, Synopsys <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eetimes.com\/electronics-news\/4214590\/Synopsys-preps--surge--verification-via-cloud\">announced<\/a> that they are preparing for their tools to make use of cloud computing. Which was a little strange considering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eetimes.com\/electronics-news\/4212823\/EDA-not-yet-ready-for-cloud-computing\">comments to the contrary<\/a>&nbsp;from both Cadence and Synopsys just a couple of months earlier.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><span style=\"line-height: 16px\">\"Synopsys Chairman and CEO Aart de Geus told an audience at the company's SNUG San Jose users' group event here Monday that using a \"surge\" in computing resources would allow designers to run a number of verification simulations in days or weeks that may have taken many months otherwise.\"<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><span style=\"line-height: 16px\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><span style=\"line-height: 16px\">Finally! One of the \"big guys\" has spoken!<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><span style=\"line-height: 16px\"><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;line-height: 16px\">Simply put, it's a gift for us.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><span style=\"line-height: 16px\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;line-height: 16px\">To most, the contents of the above article are far more persuasive than 2 guys in a&nbsp;startup trying to convince designers, partners and investors that Cloud Computing represents a huge &nbsp;opportunity for EDA.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;line-height: 16px\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;line-height: 16px\">Managed properly, the Cloud promises remarkable productivity gains.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;line-height: 16px\">The Cloud is actually not<i> that<\/i> scary once one understands it.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><span style=\"line-height: 16px\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><span style=\"line-height: 16px\">Mr. de Geus does not seem to be sure of the business model for now; perhaps he is concerned how an SaaS solution which charges by per hour is going to cannibalize their per license software revenues. &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;line-height: 16px\">This may be a hurdle for big companies like Synopsys and Cadence.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;line-height: 16px\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><span style=\"line-height: 16px\">FPGA companies in comparison do not have this problem. Their revenue is primarily driven by chip sales. Hence&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;line-height: 16px\">Cloud Computing is a better fit for FPGAs.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, Synopsys announced that they are preparing for their tools to make use of cloud computing. Which was a little strange considering comments to the contrary&nbsp;from both Cadence and Synopsys just a couple of months earlier.&#8221;Synopsys Chairman and CEO Aart de Geus told an audience at the company&#8217;s SNUG San Jose users&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Cloud a better match for FPGAs? - Plunify Blog &amp; Support<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/support.plunify.com\/en\/2011\/04\/01\/the-cloud-a-better-match-for-fpgas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Cloud a better match for FPGAs? - Plunify Blog &amp; Support\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A few days ago, Synopsys announced that they are preparing for their tools to make use of cloud computing. 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