Cloud-EDA:a PaaS platform architecture and application development for IC design & test

Abstract

IC industry has made great progress in the recent years. However, restricted by the funds and budget, resources of IC design and test are imbalanced. This paper describes an architecture of Cloud-EDA Platform based on Cloud Computing, which is the most popular topic of the internet and IT industry for its high flexibility and low cost. According to the proposed architecture, we design the prototype of Cloud-EDA Platform and develop an application of test-pattern-conversion, which demonstrate that cloud computing can be combined with IC industry to enable ordinary users, app developers and EDA vendors to achieve a win-win-win result.

Identifying critical challenges in the adoption of cloud‐based services

“…Apart from the cost factor for purchasing of purchased electronic design automation (EDA) tools, its inefficient utilization makes it becomes costlier in the case of medium‐ and small‐sized companies. Some parts of equipment remain unused, which lead to waste of resources . However, production in semiconductor manufacturing industries due to technological advancement in IC manufacturing continues to increase about 8% to10% per year to fulfil the demands .…”

“…Internet dependency is sometimes intermittent and not conductive to or conducive to continuous operations in manufacturing and design. Since semiconductor manufacturing operation is a long time running process, weak and off connection is harmful for business and process …”

“…Some parts of equipment remain unused, which lead to waste of resources. 22 However, production in semiconductor manufacturing industries due to technological advancement in IC manufacturing continues to increase about 8% to10% per year to fulfil the demands. 1 For the cost to be reduced, big firms need to transfer the manufacturing technology from 1 country to another.…”

“…Network/Internet availability (Ch9) Semiconductor manufacturing operation is a long time running process, weak and off-connection is harmful for business and process 22 Power outage (Ch10) Uncertainty of power will disrupt the services and hamper the semiconductor industry in its workflow 31 Organizational change (Ch11) Difficulty in adopting new technologies and changes in the work culture 7 Business complexity (Ch12) Expansion of business among large organizations or expanding to new geographies creates a management issues for cloud service providers to keep up to these expansions and have flexibility acceptance in cloud semiconductors. In conventional semiconductor industries, sensitive and confidential data of each organization are kept under one's own control at its own physical location.…”

“…Since semiconductor manufacturing operation is a long time running process, weak and off connection is harmful for business and process. 22 Assertion: Semiconductor manufacturing and design processes depend on network/Internet availability.…”