Semiconductor Chip Design Verification Platform
Testing a cloud-based chip design verification platform that reduced verification cycles from weeks to hours for next-gen semiconductor designs.
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A leading semiconductor design company
The Challenge
Chip design verification is the bottleneck of semiconductor development. The client’s verification cycles took 3-4 weeks using on-premise infrastructure, with limited parallelization and growing design complexity outpacing compute capacity.
Our Solution
We tested a cloud-native verification platform that distributed workloads across thousands of compute instances. Our QA validated simulation accuracy, regression suite management, coverage analysis tools, and result correlation between cloud and on-premise runs to ensure functional equivalence.
In semiconductor design, verification accounts for 60-70% of the total development effort. Accelerating this phase directly impacts time-to-market for new chip designs.
Our testing focused on ensuring absolute accuracy of cloud-based simulation results. Even a single bit-level discrepancy between cloud and on-premise runs would undermine confidence in the platform.
We developed a comprehensive correlation framework that compared simulation results at multiple levels — functional output, timing, power estimates — across millions of test vectors.
The workload scheduler testing validated that the platform could intelligently distribute verification tasks across compute instances, maximizing parallelization while respecting job dependencies and resource constraints.
Key Results
Verification cycle time reduced from 3 weeks to 8 hours
100% functional equivalence between cloud and on-premise results
Support for 10x larger regression suites within same time window
Infrastructure cost reduced 40% through intelligent workload scheduling
Platform adopted for 3 tape-out programs including flagship 3nm chip
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