Presentation
Tapeout Data Preservation and automatic archival tagging for Optimal Disk Space Management
DescriptionDesign data management is an important concern from a chip design perspective due to the enormous amount of data generated through the design flow. This data, if not effectively managed can lead to disks running out of space at critical times in a project, causing run crashes and increased turnaround time. Most engineers do not proactively clean up data and is almost always done in a haphazard manner at a choke point where disks complain of space shortage. As projects progress, it becomes a time-consuming chore to recognize and delete older experiments, sometimes leading to accidental deletion of data that led to the final design. Data is expensive – from space, cost and power perspective, and all of the potentially unnecessary data adds upto business operating costs.
The proposal is a utility for automatic data archival tagging that would lead to Optimal Disk Space Management and Tapeout Data Preservation to minimize each chip's design development footprint with minimal effort from end-user. Analysis on a Reticle-sized Data-center Accelerator chip determined that only 20% or less of the current 1.8PB of data used is necessary for Tapeout Data Archival. With future enhancements, this number could go as less as 10-15%, which is significant.
The proposal is a utility for automatic data archival tagging that would lead to Optimal Disk Space Management and Tapeout Data Preservation to minimize each chip's design development footprint with minimal effort from end-user. Analysis on a Reticle-sized Data-center Accelerator chip determined that only 20% or less of the current 1.8PB of data used is necessary for Tapeout Data Archival. With future enhancements, this number could go as less as 10-15%, which is significant.
Event Type
Engineering Track Poster
TimeTuesday, June 255:54pm - 5:55pm PDT
LocationLevel 2 Exhibit Hall
Back-End Design
Embedded Systems
Front-End Design
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