Altair Semiconductor Startup Package
For semiconductor startups, selecting the correct software tools at the onset of very-large-scale integration (VLSI), system-on-chip (SoC), 3D integrated circuit (IC), chiplet, or general semiconductor design work is crucial for establishing a foundation of efficiency and scalability. The Altair Semiconductor Startup Package offers industry newcomers an affordable way to adopt the best-in-class development tools that ensure long-term success.
Early adoption of the right tools streamlines silicon simulation and design workflows, enhances collaboration, and reduces manual tasks, allowing teams to focus on innovation and growth. These tools also minimize the risk of costly disruptions that come from switching systems later on and reduce IT workloads for the development and support of computing workflows and complicated dependency management. By choosing the right tools early, startups can ensure smoother chip design operations, support expansion as the business grows, and stay competitive in the fast-paced and ever-changing global market.
Altair technology can help your business:
Understand your electronic design automation (EDA) license usage and expenditure.
Implement the fastest high-performance computing (HPC) scheduler, designed specifically for the semiconductor industry.
Make your scheduler license-aware, treating your high-value EDA simulation licenses as resources in the scheduling process.
Make your HPC scheduling smart with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning-assisted resource requests.
There’s no better time than at the start of a semiconductor development business to take a technology leap with Altair.
Optimize your HPC environment, make designers more efficient, control costs and license usage, and more with Altair.
What’s In the Altair Semiconductor Startup Package?
Computing Efficiency
With the Altair Semiconductor Startup Package, users gain access to Altair® Accelerator™, Altair® Monitor™ and Altair® NavOps®. These enterprise-grade tools give users high-throughput semiconductor workload scheduling and management of expensive EDA licenses as scheduling resources.
Monitor highlights how EDA license usage and its efficiency. With this information, Accelerator can schedule workload “license-aware” to maximize the utilization of EDA licenses.
Startups need flexible computing platforms to maximize on-premise compute resource use and seamlessly burst workloads to the public cloud as needed. NavOps unifies on-premise and cloud HPC resources (permanent or burst-mode) into a user-friendly system while ensuring that cloud-bursting costs align with business or project needs. Vendor agnostic cloud HPC technology allows simple workload migration between cloud HPC vendors, avoiding potentially costly lock-ins and enabling easy shifts to the best-suited hardware for specific simulations.
Design Verification
The Altair Semiconductor Startup Package also includes our full array of design verification solutions, including:
Altair® FlowTracer™: An advanced silicon design flow development and execution platform that provides users with unique flow visualization and troubleshooting capabilities.
Altair® DSim™: A complete digital simulator designed for both SystemVerilog and very high-speed integrated circuit hardware description language (VHDL). It’s ideally suited for application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), offering a robust solution for advanced design needs.
Altair® Silicon Debug Tools™: An exceptional range of system, register-transfer level (RTL), gate-level, and SPICE-level design abstractions for modern SoC platforms, ensuring semiconductor designs reach the manufacturing stage fault-free.
Altair® PollEx™: A tool featuring collaborative, automatic PCB design review and board design verification focusing on manufacturing, assembly, and EMC.
Multiphysics System Analyses
Multiphysics and automation capabilities in Altair® SimLab® accelerate analysis setup to generate quicker, more reliable outcomes of chiplet and 3D IC designs, considering thermal, solder fatigue, warpage, and other aspects of system-level design integration.
Altair’s next-generation design exploration technology in Altair® PhysicsAI™ delivers fast physics predictions by learning from your historical data without the limits of parametric studies. With its modern, geometric deep learning
capability,
PhysicsAI identifies the relationship between shape and performance for any physics. Once trained, PhysicsAI models can deliver predictions up to 1,000x faster than traditional solver simulations.
