Synopsys, Inc. announced that its IC Validator physical verification solution running on Microsoft Azure completed a verification run of the AMD Radeon™ Pro VII GPU, which includes more than 13 billion transistors, in less than nine hours. The collaboration was powered by Azure HBv2 virtual machines, using the 2nd Generation AMD EPYC™ processors. Highlights: Cloud-optimized IC Validator scales physical verification across approximately 4,000 AMD EPYC™ cores to deliver overnight full-chip DRC runtime; Unique elastic CPU management enabled optimal use of compute resources; Reference setup enables users to get started with IC Validator on Microsoft Azure cloud. IC Validator utilized unique elastic CPU management technology to realize up to 40 percent savings in compute resources, achieving lower cost of ownership on cloud and ensuring resource availability for other critical jobs during tapeout. IC Validator is a comprehensive and highly scalable physical verification solution, that includes DRC, LVS, programmable electrical rule checks (PERC), dummy metal fill, and design-for-manufacturability (DFM) enhancement capabilities. IC Validator is architected for high performance and scalability, which maximizes utilization of mainstream hardware, using smart memory-aware load scheduling and balancing technologies. It uses both multi-threading and distributed processing across multiple machines to provide scalability benefits that extend to thousands of CPUs.