HPC customer engages Sondrel for high end chip design
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For example, we have one customer for such designs that has contracted us for the past eight years to work on each generation of its advanced node chips.” He explained that HPC designs require multicore processors running at maximum clock frequencies and utilising the very latest, coherent Network on Chip (NoC) technology, advanced memory and high bandwidth IO interfaces, so that the chip can deliver the highest possible performance. As a result, the need to access off-chip memory may be significantly reduced, which can introduce latencies that hinder performance. “HPC is in huge demand for next generation applications that demand tremendous computing power such as AI, scientific modelling, data centres and internet infrastructures,” concluded Jones. “In every case, the key is understanding how to move data around in the optimal way to maximise performance and that is an area where we have world-class expertise and in-house technologies such as our Advanced Modelling Process. This is part of our suite of in-house tools and flows, which have been perfected over many years, and enables us to analyse exactly what is going on inside a chip design to ensure that the data flow is balanced properly and that the processors are not stalled waiting for data.