Cell/B.E. technology solutions for electronic design automation

Today’s Electronic Design Automation solutions make significant demands on your computing resources. Compute intensive EDA workloads such as optical proximity correction, design-rule checking and timing optimization use demanding algorithms like Fast Fourier Transforms and image simulations. To keep your design teams productive and meet aggressive time-to-market deadlines you need fast turnaround runtimes and significant computing power.

The IBM BladeCenter QS21 is an excellent choice for the most demanding EDA workloads. With our deep understanding of the high computational needs of chip design and manufacturing and partnership with key EDA ISVs and Business Partners, IBM continues to deliver innovative IT solutions that can help reduce design-turnaroud time, improve time to market and lower total cost of computing.

Along with the QS21, IBM offers the BladeCenter QS22 blade server built with the innovative multi-core IBM PowerXCell™ 8i processor, a new generation processor based on an enhanced version of the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) Architecture. The QS22 provides exceptional single- and double-precision floating point performance for scientific and mathematical processing.

Computational acceleration in electronic design automation: Mentor Graphics Calibre nmOPC solution on the Cell Broadband Engine platform(1.05 MB)