Roy Anderson

"In the past, people used different scripts, different tools that had to be glued together," said Roy Anderson, alliance manager for Agilent's EDA/DFT program.

Roy AndersonHewlett-Packard

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Roy AndersonGlobal EDA Market Manager - Technical Computing DivisionHewlett-Packard Corporation

Compute farms are becoming increasingly visible in the delivery of business-critical services in many areas of technical computing.With recent advances in memory-to-CPU allocation, that allows dual-processor units to share 16 GB of SDRAM, Hewlett-Packard's J6000 workstations serve as ideal compute appliances for even the most demanding applications.Together with the well-established HP-UX operating system, and a joint middleware solution from Hewlett-Packard and Platform Computing, this combination delivers a high-performance, high-capacity infrastructure that is also highly available.With specific examples drawn from EDA, the effectiveness of this solution will be demonstrated through this presentation and via a live demo in the exhibition area.

P3 - EnginFrame: A Computing Portal Technology

"We are delighted to offer Simplex's advanced software technology on HP K- and V-Class Exemplar servers," said Roy Anderson, electronic design automation (EDA) market-development manager for HP's High Performance Systems Division."The combination of HP's industry-leading hardware and Simplex's full-chip IC extraction and analysis software will provide design engineers with the advanced tools and technologies needed to achieve next-generation IC design."

Fire & Ice is a 3-D parasitic extraction product family for high-performance IC designs that provides overnight, full-chip, 3-D-accurate extraction for timing, IR drop, clock skew, signal integrity and electromigration analysis.Fire & Ice extracts the interconnect RC parasitics, transistors, discrete components and power grid for multimillion-transistor circuits in a matter of hours, providing the accuracy of 3-D field solvers with the speed of 2-D extraction techniques.Unlike other extraction products, Fire & Ice retains all of the separate capacitive components that are extracted, which enables accurate analysis of interconnect reliability due to electromigration and electrical overstress.