The effective use of analysis, simulation and optimization technology can determine the time from concept to product for emerging electronics.  Electronic chip and printed circuit board design firms and their suppliers are taking advantage of analysis, simulation, and optimization solutions in the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) areas of electronic systems design/simulation, functional verification, integrated circuit (IC) design and printed circuit board (PCB) design. This aims to deliver products to market with less physical prototyping. Mathematical prototyping allows circuit designers to move their products to market faster, at lower costs and with fewer design errors.

To support the increased reliance on EDA design, simulation, analysis and physical design tools, a high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure is required. And, as circuit designs become denser and more complicated, the need for increased compute capacity grows exponentially. However, if the HPC environment has not been designed to meet the demands of overlapping product development programs, project launch dates may slip and the costs associated with last minute changes may increase.