Calibre in the cloud

The Calibre nmPlatform is cloud-ready

Calibre tools are cloud-ready and cloud-optimized

The Calibre nmPlatform is optimized for the cloud, enabling you to use existing Calibre nmPlatform products and licenses today. Additionally, we provide a variety of cloud flight plans, including reference environment templates optimized to deliver exceptional performance for the biggest workloads and ease cloud adoption. Combining the Calibre nmPlatform with a cloud flight plan enables Calibre nmPlatform users to maximize the value of their cloud spend while increasing the number of design turns per day for their biggest surge workloads.

Choice of cloud environments

We invested the effort to identify the best-known methods for working with major cloud providers, so you wouldn't have to. Enjoy the flexibility to adopt the cloud environment that best meets your operational and business needs, with the knowledge that whatever choice you make will provide operational and cost efficiency.

Companies can implement their cloud computing environment, with guidance from their Calibre representative, to ensure the best resource selection, and network configuration. Smaller companies may opt to use a consulting-operated or managed cloud environment, providing the benefits of cloud computing without the overhead of internal maintenance.

Best known methods for running Calibre IC design verification in the cloud

Siemens EDA collaborated with AWS and Annapurna Labs to evaluate results from a series of Calibre flow benchmarks run inside Annapurna’s production virtual private cloud (VPC), which is hosted on AWS. Running Calibre applications in the cloud can provide a twofold advantage: design teams don’t have to wait for local compute resources to become available, and design companies have the option to increase available compute resources during peak or critical demand periods, or when they want to take advantage of Calibre scalability to boost the number of design turns per day. Running multiple Calibre applications in a variety of scenarios and conditions enabled us to define a set of best-known methods (BKMs) for running Calibre in the cloud. These BKMs include general recommendations for EDA in the cloud, as well as specific recommendations for optimizing Calibre IC design verification in a cloud environment.

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