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Overview
Iontra has its headquarters in Denver, CO and has established design centers in Dallas, TX and Bengaluru, India. Iontra is building a game-changing battery charging technology that improves battery performance by improving the charging times and cycle life by more than 2X with improved safety. This means that existing batteries can be utilized far more efficiently or charged faster for battery performance and usability of end applications and products.
Challenges
While Iontra is dedicated to advancing battery charging technology, they face several significant challenges, including:
- High Costs and Scalability Issues: Cost, upfront time, and scalability issues in deploying and managing on-premises compute servers.
- Resource Management Needs: Need for dedicated CAD and IT team to manage EDA licenses and infrastructure resources.
- Additional Capital Expenditure: Redundancy for on-premises compute resources requires additional CapEx.
- Productivity Loss: Downtime due to maintenance or failures leading to engineering productivity loss.
- Stringent Performance Requirements: Stringent reliability and performance requirements for next-gen battery charge controller (microcontroller unit).
- First Pass Silicon Success: Need for silicon-proven, high-quality IP to achieve first pass silicon success.
Solution
Synopsys Cloud SaaS provided Iontra with a transformational platform for end-to-end chip design, addressing their challenges effectively:
License Management Automation: Automated management of license servers and keys supported unlimited, on-demand licenses for peak bursts without additional CAD resources.
On-Demand, Pay-Per-Use by the Minute Access: The FlexEDA business model offered unlimited, on-demand EDA resources, eliminating licensing constraints and enabling 5X faster time to results.
Seamless Integration: Synopsys IP and EDA tools were integrated seamlessly. The latest tool versions, licenses and software were installed within minutes, plus it allowed for direct download of IP inside the SaaS environment.
Pre-Configured Design Flows: Pre-defined compute recommendations and end-to-end design flows improved productivity for Iontra’s global team.
Security and Scalability: Ability to assign user privileges for data movement to and from the cloud within the portal and the flexibility to scale compute and EDA resources on-demand instantly.
Transformational Chip Design Environment: Seamless browser-based platform offered capabilities for complete CAD/IT and user management, governance, e-commerce, analytics, EDA and infrastructure usage reports.
Figure 1: The FlexEDA TTM Advantage
Results
The implementation of Synopsys Cloud SaaS yielded remarkable results for Iontra:
Accelerated Development: The complete design environment was ready for production within 2 days, significantly reducing setup time and enabling development teams to start next-gen battery charging IC design.
Improved Productivity: The global design team experienced enhanced productivity due to seamless EDA and IP integration and pre-configured EDA design flows; all available in a common production environment.
Enhanced Reliability: Access to high-quality, silicon-proven Synopsys IP ensured first-pass silicon success.
Scalability and Flexibility: On-demand scaling of EDA tool licenses and compute resources enabled 5X faster physical verification and extraction and provided flexibility to meet dynamic project requirements.
Synopsys Cloud SaaS has empowered Iontra to focus on innovation and quality, accelerating their mission to revolutionize battery charging technology and contribute to a sustainable energy future.
