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NetApp Semiconductor and Electronics Solutions

NetApp is a leader in consolidated, simplified storage solutions for semiconductor and electronics manufacturers.

NetApp works with semi-conductor and electronics manufacturers such as AMD, Applied Micro Circuits, Cadence Design, Motorola and NVIDIA to deliver a solutions that prevent costly time-to-market losses with the ultimate in data availability, migration, and protection as well as optimum system performance and simplicity.

Benefits

Managing Complex Design Environments
Semiconductor manufacturing depends on a variety of sophisticated design applications and tools in use by a large number of diverse users. These tools are often supported by a complex infrastructure consisting of multiple operating systems, servers, and storage systems.

NetApp storage solutions unite different platforms and systems, improving both interoperability and accessibility. Native support of NFS and CIFS within the NetApp kernel eliminates the need for emulation software such as PC-NFS or Samba—and allows Windows, UNIX, and Linux clients to share the same copy of data. NetApp solutions support cohesive access to both network-attached and storage area network data. They reduce the complexity and risk associated with the product development environment.

Performance and Scalability Issues
The design process requires access to large amounts of data, especially during the simulation stage. It is not uncommon for a chip manufacturer to deploy thousands of Linux servers to achieve the desired performance. A typical chip design can require as much as 10TB of storage. As a result, the IT department must forecast and manage extremely large amounts of data, which can be a difficult planning task.

The flexibility and modularity of NetApp solutions offer the highest performance and greatest capacity options. As performance needs grow, storage infrastructure can be expanded independent of the compute infrastructure. New hardware can be implemented easily and quickly and storage capacity can be expanded without downtime. NetApp unified data management and data storage solutions allow centralized administration and a single console view of the environment's array of filers and dispersed data.

Meeting the Data Availability Challenge
Probably the most fundamental challenge faced by chip designers is data availability and as a result, data protection is crucial. Time lost due to unplanned system outages, interoperability conflicts, or user error, as well as planned downtime for backups or upgrades, can greatly hinder a company's profitability.

NetApp solutions provide the ultimate data security in complex design environments. With an inclusive storage architecture and complete management, caching, and replication tools, NetApp extends data safeguards outside the data center to remote design centers and the desktop, isolating data from corruption and deletion. Our unique Snapshot capability provides quick recovery of deleted or corrupted data files for increased productivity.

Remote Collaboration
The semiconductor industry requires extensive collaboration and information sharing among geographically dispersed engineering, design, and support teams. Highly efficient, level, and uniform data access is a must, but due to the distributed nature of the design process, duplicate and conflicting versions of critical data often reside on different systems at multiple sites.

NetApp allows the most effective remote collaboration via centralized data oversight, localized file caching, and data replication. Where companies once were forced to place multiple administrators around the globe to control data movement and process management, with NetApp, often a single administrator is able to expertly manage data at all sites.

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