Elastic Compute and Big Data Analytics Tackle Physical Chip Verification Complexity - Ansys Advantage - V14 I1 - Article

Larger, more complex silicon designs are straining verification methodologies and slowing time to results and time to market. Xilinx engineers wanted to leverage bigdata analytics to simplify their verification flow on leading edge chips, and they looked to Ansys for answers in developing field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).

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